Take a look at these comments... This helps you understand the default thinking of those who find themselves in speaking culture workplaces — that is workplaces where information predominantly flows...
Getting your head around asynchronous working
In our trainings, when we get to the part about what asynchronous work is and what it looks like in practice, we then share something like this, Comment source There are then often a lot of deep...
Onboarding: “But how will new people learn how we do things here if we aren’t together in an office?”
Great question. I have empathy for the question as it comes from a team that has, as its frame of reference, in-person working. In-person workplaces gain and share knowledge by asking and...
In-office and distributed working are worlds apart
At the core of failures to be experienced by companies as they attempt work-from-anywhere arrangements (including "hybrid" work models) will be a continuation of this situation described by Steve...
How to cutdown on online audio/video meetings
Earlier this week I shared this about how fully distributed office-less businesses hire using Slack. The reaction from most traditional in-office teams when seeing this is “What!?” Here is another...
Meetings are broken — this is one way to fix them
The pandemic has provided an opportunity to rethink everything. Prior to the pandemic employees attended 62 meetings/month and in the US unnecessary meetings cost a whopping $37 billion in salary...
“This is why we have to get everyone back to the office!”
This research proves it! No it doesn’t. What it proves is that you are watching the clock not the output. “Being on the clock” while working remotely is the very opposite of what mature...
Finally we have proof — current remote working practices are unsustainable
This study of 10,000 employees forced into pandemic remote work found that productivity decreased by 20% (Source in comments) Here is why: “Why did productivity decline? The authors find that...
Remote Work Objection: How will junior staff learn if they are not around others?
I hear this all the time from those new to remote work. So here is how it works: In a well DESIGNED work-from-anywhere workplace onboarding of new people is given meticulous attention. Junior staff...
Long-term work from anywhere is dependent on this
A digital workplace or “office in the cloud” that rests on a solid foundation of work-from-anywhere best practices. Some of these are: A leadership team 100% in support of the conceptA team with...
Remote work: Learning from others
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...
Constant video meetings are exhausting
Now that many have learnt the hard way that this is the case it’s furtile ground to learn about Asynchronous Meetings. Why not learn how teams that have been working remotely prior to 2020 have been...