RTO: A Call for More Thinking, Less Bloviating
Chase’s CEO Jamie Dimon has strong feelings about Return to Office vs Working Remotely. This post suggests leaders should do more thinking about the pro’s and con’s of flexible work arrangements, and less spouting off, based on emotions, but not data.
All Cows Will Please Report to the Barn
Recently, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy gave notice that all AMZN corporate staff were to be back in the barn working in January 2025. (Before anyone sends any inflammatory emails, we’ve used the Cows metaphor for better than 25 years and have gone to great lengths to be clear that we are NOT comparing people to […]
Coffee Badging Was Only a Matter of Time
Who among us is surprised by the latest salvo to be reported in the remote/hybrid work battle – coffee badging? This is the practice of swiping your badge at the office, coming in long enough to have a cup of coffee, and then retreating to your remote office to continue your work… or not. Just […]
Tightening the Connection with Remotely Based Teammates
Remotely based workers certainly CAN become detached from their teams and their organization’s culture. But they don’t HAVE to be. Leaders play in big part in tightening the connection.
RTO Mandates: How to Make Recruiting and Retention Even Harder
Let’s get right to the point. Consider two groups, A and B. Group A: Knowledge workers who want the option to work remotely, or hybrid. Group B: Managers who want them to come back to the office, issuing Return to Office Mandates. In today’s labor market, Group A outweighs Group B by a staggering margin. […]
Workforce 2022: What IS the New Normal?
By Bill Catlette and Richard Hadden In a nation weary but not yet free of Covid there is growing consternation, largely in C-suites, over the perceived need to return to “normal”, to life as it used to be; to herd millions of now remotely domiciled (free-range) knowledge workers back into the corporate coop, be it […]
How Managers Can Improve Remote Employee Engagement
With the seismic shift to remote work, Employee Engagement, which some organizations may have felt they were getting a handle on, has reemerged as a major challenge. A recent report shows that 71% of managers feel employee engagement has a direct impact on the overall success of an organization. With this number in mind, leaders […]
Time for Some Straight Talk About Returning to Onsite Work
As employers move people back to onsite work, it’s important to consider that this is an employEE’s market, not an employER’s. Swimming against the tide of the asserted will of the labor force will hurt recruiting, retention, and Employee Engagement.
Making Hybrid Work
The hybrid workforce model is the future of the workplace. Let’s get it right. Here’s how.
Part 2 – Making Working from Anywhere Work
On January 11, 2021, we published a list of six specific ideas we’ve learned from leaders who are having real success engaging and leading their remote and hybrid teams. You don’t exactly have to have read that post to benefit from this one. But why wouldn’t you? Read it here. Here’s the rest of our […]