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Remote work resistance
15 Apr, 2021
As leadership teams consider their post-pandemic workplace strategies you hear sentiments like this: "Our plan to bring everyone back to the office is in no way a reflection of our employees not...
How employees feel about being forced back into the office
13 Apr, 2021
Take a look at the comment below which was made in response to the reporting on the Boston Consulting research which indicated South African workers prefer working from home. Notice the last...
Remote work: Learning from others
11 Apr, 2021
Remeber working remotely is not new and best practices have long been established years prior to this pandemic. If a leadership team wants to embrace anywhere working there is absolutely no need to...
Why remote companies are more efficient than in-office companies
5 Apr, 2021
One word describes why: Intentionality The hallmark of a highly effective, productive and innovative remote company is that they are INTENTIONAL about EVERYTHING - Culture - Daily communication...
Why are we sitting in traffic if we can work from anywhere
4 Apr, 2021
That just makes no sense. Here is the thing the commute of hundreds of millions of people can be ended by adopting different ways of working. 1) We have the technology2) We have the know-how3)...
Mitigation
3 Apr, 2021
We have all experienced the painful reality of being caught off guard by this pandemic. It’s important to know that the risk of a global pandemic has been known and highlighted often before...
“Hybrid” workplace models are extremely difficult to manage
2 Apr, 2021
The reason? “When too many workers are remote, you run into issues that people that are in the office have face time, they have opportunities, they’re interacting with employees a little bit...
Constant video meetings are driving people crazy
25 Mar, 2021
https://twitter.com/jarrodt83/status/1366600199322234889?s=21 They are exhausting as research has shown. At 30min brain fatigue sets in. Yet recent Microsoft data shows video meetings have increased...
Most companies stuck in synchronous remote work
23 Mar, 2021
This new data from Microsoft shows most companies new to remote work are stuck in “Synchronous Remote Work” or at Level 2 of the 5-Level remote work maturity model. Most are trying to: Ctrl + C...
Leadership post-covid
22 Mar, 2021
What does the above headline have to do with business you ask. As you’ve heard me say before: Everything. What was once considered the domain of science research papers has now become a serious...
Looking back: What impact has covid had?
20 Mar, 2021
Here are some interesting data points from this HBR piece entitled Is Your C-Suite Equipped to Lead a Digital Transformation - “77% of CEOs reported that the pandemic sped up their companies’...
It’s back to old ways for some it seems
19 Mar, 2021
So this was the situation Friday morning... https://twitter.com/loyisokula/status/1372425936637943808?s=21 Back to the office it is for teams that have not been able to solve the challenges sudden...