BUILT ON SAND: This remote work workplace was hastily put in place because of the pandemic. There was no prior planning for this. Everybody suddenly went home. It’s “kinda” of working. Teams are...
Cancel remote work at your peril
This is the headline making some news today Source here The story here is the same the world over. Many leaders think being in-office is better than working remotely. Here was the sentiment of this...
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...
Siloed internal communication
Despite being a year into remote work for many, I still hear this when talking to teams. ME: So how do you stay in contact with your team? THEM: Mostly by email… (siloed communication) ME: What else...
This is exactly how hybrid workplaces fail
“It’s still important to keep the hybrid option available, because that’s what workers say they want.”— Robbie Robertson, Deloitte Also Mr Robertson: COMMENT: The collapse of hybrid workplaces will...
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...
Top talent will now have this choice
Take a look at this poll created by Chris Herd over on Twitter https://twitter.com/chris_herd/status/1385961893081325569? It’s important to understand the sentiment here. Some organizations have...
Remote work and carbon emissions
The State of California has created a live dashboard to show the real-time impact of working remotely for 12 agencies across the state. This past week: 8,408 employees were working remotely...
Why some employees want to be back in-person
From the 2021 Microsoft Work Trends Index: From my experience, this is driven primarily by a terrible remote work experience driven primarily by being forced into this way of working at short...
Remote work resistance
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
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
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...