The return to office (RTO) mandates keep coming while the most important questions that determine how, when and where we do our best work are not being asked or answered. This time it’s AT&T’s requirement that managers will be in the office three days a week. I shared my thoughts about this with The Washington Post’s […]
Recently, I joined leadership coach and author Marney Andes as a guest on her Community Good podcast. We covered so many topics bookended by two important concepts: First, acknowledge that the traditional work model was already disappearing before the pandemic and how the pandemic accelerated that trend in a really disruptive and chaotic way, and… […]
If you haven’t been following the excellent workplace and future of work coverage from Digiday Media’s WorkLife, I recommend you dive into their recent Quiet Workplace Guide. The series examines why leaders need to look beyond the headlines and buzzwords of the day to the deeper human and organizational challenges beneath them in order to […]
Why can’t employers and employees seem to agree on how, when, and where work will get done most effectively going forward? The illustration below tells the story. This conflict is often portrayed as a “power” battle between employer and employee. However, that would require a level of awareness about the position you are choosing to hold in opposition […]
This past week a sentence from a terrific article by Emma Goldberg in the New York Times entitled, “Office Mandates. Pickleball. Beer. What Will Make Hybrid Work Stick?” struck me: “Business leaders are in a phase of trial and error that comes with staggering stakes.” Why “staggering stakes”? Whether or not it’s done with intention, organizations are defining how, when, and […]
Looking forward to my first Open Office Hours in 2023! Join me tomorrow, Friday, 2/24 from, 12 to 12:30 pm EST. Click the blue-button above for the Zoom link. Open Office Hours are an informal opportunity for newsletter subscribers to ask questions, share insights, or just say “hi.” If you are more comfortable sending questions in advance, please forward them […]
The lack of childcare is a meaningful and real constraint for parental workforce participation: “There were about 58,000 fewer daycare workers in the U.S. last month compared with February 2020.” If, on average, the teacher-to-child ratio is 1:4, that means childcare for almost 250,000 children doesn’t exist, no matter how much you paid for it. […]
How does an organization execute and optimize a flexible operating model that works for the business and for people? How do teams and individuals perform at high levels working across places, spaces and time, with coordinated intention? How do people leverage the flexibility available to them to fit their work and life together to be […]
For me, the year-end holidays are a time to celebrate and reflect. Celebrate professional and personal successes: what you did get done, not what you didn’t; progress, not perfection (still my favorite insights from the work+life fit naturals I studied when writing Tweak It). And reflect on some of the most important lessons learned, one […]
This past week I’ve been fascinated, but not surprised, that the looming strike by railroad workers hinged not on money, but on their ability to fit work and life together. Analyzing legislation that averted a possible railroad strike, the New York Times noted Sunday that “Congress stepped in to prevent supply chain havoc, but rail […]