This past week was filled with examples of how rapidly the future of work is evolving. Here are the highlights. The future of work has reached South African shores Over on Business Tech there was...
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...
One of the secrets of successful remote teams
One of the big mistakes some leadership teams make when considering allowing work-from-anywhere is thinking that this way of working means you never see your team in-person. This in fact is the very...
Unlocking Staff Happiness & Productivity
Prior to the forced “pandemic remote work” surveys of remote workers have consistently have them score higher on the happiness index than their in-office counterparts. For example see this from...
Insights from Dreamforce NYC
At the Dreamforce NYC event this past week during Brett Taylor's keynote he outlined how Salesforce sees the future of work. There were a couple of things about this worth highlighting. 1) The...
Synchronous remote working
Check this data point from a survey done recently by Robert Half of more than 2,800 senior managers and more than 1,000 workers in the U.S. Raise your hand if this has been your experience! Many...
Work has been liberated from an office – now what?
Technology has liberated work from the four walls of a physical office. How much of that freedom will you embrace? (Remember the flea in the jar?) Here are your choices: Reimagining the postpandemic...
Is your business prepared for climate disruption?
The European Central Bank, one week after the Glasgow climate talks, released a report into what’s really going in the world of European banks in terms of climate risks. It makes for some...
Why you can’t straddle two operating systems
Slowly but surely it is beginning to dawn on leadership teams that attempting to straddle two operating systems (ie in-person working AND remote working) is really hard as the two are not compatible...
Remember the flea in jar?
Do you remember the experiment with the flea that grew accustomed to the lid on the jar, so much so that when it was lifted it kept jumping just below where the lid used to be? Essentially staying...
Prof Nickolas Bloom: Don’t Let Employees Pick Their WFH Days
Hybrid working is really hard to manage and I give the same advice to leadership teams as Prof. Bloom does, as is outlined in this piece by Prof Nickolas BloomHere is one of the reasons: "One...
Pre-pandemic mistakes repeated
In 2019 if you had asked leadership teams what the biggest threat to their business would be almost none would have mentioned a pandemic. The interesting thing is that those who had prioritized...