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 […]
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 […]
The flurry of headlines continues on several workplace fronts: more top-down, and even extreme, RTO mandates (we’re looking at you, Jamie Dimon) and leaders penalizing non-compliant employees as was the case recently with Davis Polk cutting bonuses for managers not coming into the office as ordered. Ready for the good news? As we continue to navigate our way through […]
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 […]
Dear Friends, It’s been a month since we launched HPF 2023. The goal is to close the massive gap between the 87% of leaders who say finding the right workplace model is important and the 24% who feel they’re very ready to do it. So what have we done? In addition to the Work Flexibility Assessment to help organizations […]
Happy New Year! I hope you enjoyed the year-end holidays with friends and family. As you set your intentions for 2023, it’s a good time to remember to leave “finding a better work-life balance” off your list. Why? Because, as I’ve been explaining for nearly two decades, there is no such thing as work-life balance. […]
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 […]
“What keeps you up at night?” That’s one of the thought-provoking questions the host of UC Berkeley Extension’s The Future of Work podcast, Jill Finlayson, asked during my recent appearance. Finlayson is also the Director of EDGE (Expanding Diversity and Gender Equity) in Tech Initiative at UC, and the monthly podcast she hosts focuses on the changing evolution of […]