The world is now mostly two years beyond the end of almost all COVID-era restrictions. A “New Normal” has been established through intentional action or unintentional patterns forming. Headlines that continue to talk about Return to Office or Return to Work (with Amazon causing the most recent ruckus) are missing the point about how people…
Tag: productivity
Does your workplace strategy promote positive cultural engagement among employees?
One of the topics I do not see coming up nearly often enough in the conversation around return to office is whether the workplace itself is appropriate for the current world. Bringing employees together in person is a worthwhile endeavor (even though I will consistently argue that mandates are not the right way to do…
If you mandate 3 days a week in the office, you are not offering hybrid work opportunities.
Mandates are the rage yet again. We went through this in the middle of 2022 when COVID-19 restrictions first began disappearing. Then again at the end of 2022. Now again in early 2023. It is a never-ending hot topic for business leaders who have no clue how their employees worked before the pandemic, how they…
From experience, it takes 18 months to learn to work from home full-time.
There’s a lot of “stats” being thrown around about the newly work from home. As someone who has worked from home full-time for awhile, I can’t help but laugh as they reflect the typical change curve of someone beginning the work from home process. Yet the “stats” are presented as if they are an accurate…