We all have biases that occasionally get us in trouble. And that's as true in a remote management context as it is in any other workplace setting.
There are many jobs where flexible working simply isn’t an option. So what alternative benefits can employers offer that will enhance employee well-being and engagement?
Why do some people work from home and others prefer (or have no choice but) to work in the office? The reasons are more varied than you might think.
Despite pressure on budgets, the majority of UK employers are responding to staff demands for an expansion of benefits and flexible working.
More than two-thirds of people in the UK find the idea of being monitored in the workplace intrusive, according to new research.
With many managers struggling at a personal level in the new world of hybrid work, organisations need to offer additional support to build healthy workplace relationships.
How do you keep employees engaged when they aren’t interacting with colleagues every day? The answer is to try to include them whenever the opportunity arises.
An issue many managers come up against on remote or hybrid teams is that there are fewer opportunities to inspect peoples' work in person, or on-demand. Dealing with this is all about expectations.
It's all too easy for those all-important 'water cooler' moments to evaporate in the new hybrid world of work. So how do you build deeper relationships in teams that rarely share the same physical space?
First was "the Great Resignation." Then there was "Quiet Quitting." But the latest buzzword flying around to help us understand the changing workplace is "the Great Mismatch."
The trend for remote work was rising for years before the COVID tsunami hit. But now we've passed that first big wave of change, what will teamwork look like going forward?
Three years of Covid-inspired disruption to the way work is done has left uncertainty in its wake. But waving a magic wand and saying, "we're going back to the way things were," isn't going to work for a number of reasons.
Some unwelcome workplace behaviors disappear when we work remotely. But when the way we work changes, so do the ways we manage to annoy and undermine each other.
Social chit-chat is a vital part of being human. But how does that fit in with the the new normal of hybrid or home working where our physical contact with others is limited?
Remote working is all very well, but how can we get a real feel for other people and build meaningful relationships without ever being in physical proximity to them?
A variety of issues still plague today's hybrid work environments, particularly around the tech used to enable effective remote working.
Everyone knows that if you work from home once everyone else returns to the office, you've obviously decided your career doesn't matter. Right?
What's the link between the iconic Blackberry phone and the Covid pandemic?
There is one factor that can be lethal for remote teams that usually isn't a problem when everyone is in the same place. That invisible killer is exclusion.
As we design the "next" workplace, we need to shift our focus from where, when, and how employees perform their work, to why they want to perform it.
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