A lot of companies acknowledge that they need a hybrid work policy but aren’t sure how to go about creating one. I found a pretty decent guide on Open Sourced Workplace. In reading it, I thought some of their points need a little examining. Below are their 8 things to consider when creating a Hybrid-Office

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There’s a lot of talk about Hybrid Work and Hybrid Teams. Usually that means the team is some combination of people in the office or central location, and some people working elsewhere, either full time or occasionally. We often use the term as a catch-all: the team is neither fully remote or fully co-located so

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Everyone knows that being in the same room is better for creativity than working apart, and that’s why people are heading into the office at least part-time. We know that, right? Not so fast. As we shift more to hybrid and other brand-new ways of organizing our work, there is a huge concern about how

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As organizations put plans together for returning to the office and whatever the next chapter of their business lives looks like, they are finding an unexpected barrier. Employees either don’t want to go back, or don’t want to work in the same way they did before the pandemic sent them home. What’s an employer to

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We are reading a lot about Return to Office (RTO) and how it’s critical to company culture that people get together. In fact, senior executives are telling us they are depending on it to maintain or create the culture they want. But what if your workplace culture is toxic? Does getting together help or make

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Is your IT department your savior, your enemy or something in between? It might be all those things, but have you ever compared your Head of Technology to Sauron, the bad guy from Lord of the Rings? I was talking to a client the other day about the challenges remote workers face and the subject

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In May of 2020, IBM polled thousands of its workers about how they can make work from home work. How do the ideas put forward work two and a half years later? First, let’s take a look at the key points of the “pledge” the company created for its employees based on their findings. You

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“The biggest threat to organizations is the quiet quitting trend…” If you’ve read this headline, or others like it, you probably were either mildly intrigued or completely outraged.Your response says as much about your attitude to your work as anything ever will. Every once in a while, the business press gets hold of an idea

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Recently a friend of mine, a great proponent of working from home, (WFH for the initiated) stepped down from his job as CEO because of exhaustion and burnout and a need to recalibrate his life. Within a week I learned of several others who have done the same, or are planning to do so soon.

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