Before the pandemic, I was giving a seminar on implementing hybrid work to drive up productivity, better attract and retain employees, and cut costs. Part of the training included recommendations on the technology to enable hybrid work, such as video…
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7 Successful Steps for Return to the Office
Many companies, including high-tech ones, that once told their workers they could work from home forever, are once again trying to recall remote workers to the office. And many of them are making arbitrary rules and showing little success. Here…
Job satisfaction at all-time high thanks to hybrid working and job switching.
According to The Conference Board, US workers have never been more content, despite the pandemic, quiet quitting, quiet firing, and the forwards and backwards over hybrid working. Overall job satisfaction among US workers increased in 2022 to its highest point…
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Avoid the return-to-office stampede and hire and retain great employees
More and more companies require remote and hybrid workers to spend more time in the office, despite knowing that US workers prefer hybrid work, are more productive, and the US is in a decades-long labor shortage. You can join the…
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Don’t allow these two strategies to be part of your cost-cutting plans.
Many organizations are implementing cost-cutting measures. I have been stunned to learn that some companies are trying to cut costs by recalling hybrid and remote employees to the office and are thinking about implementing forced ranking with the intention of…
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Remote work uncovered but didn’t create problems
Surveys show that the war over hybrid, remote, and office-based work continues. It is a conflict that about two-thirds of current remote and hybrid workers are willing to quit over. And the number of employees working remotely or in hybrid…
Better work-life balance tops list of seven job candidate preferences
Criteria, a research and talent success company, has published its 2022 Candidate Experience Report. It shows the top job candidate priorities for 2022, a year of the great resignation, the US’s lowest unemployment rate since 2019 of 3.5 percent (tying a…
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Virtual work accelerates what’s innovative!
When I worked for Medtronic businesses in Santa Rosa, CA, in 2012, implementing a remote work environment, we learned that requiring innovation workers to come into the office every day was unnecessary. In fact, we discovered that virtual teams and…
Covid-19 endemic or epidemic? Smart firms need to be agile.
In past columns, I have advised business leaders to take precautions against the next wave of Covid-19. It keeps mutating. Although it appears to be transitioning from a pandemic to an endemic, it can still be epidemic and very dangerous.…
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How the War for Talent looks different in the 2020s
CEOs are asking their human resources leaders to implement talent management strategies to beat the Great Resignation and attract new employees to their brands. This request is not a nice to have. It is essential for business growth. Talent management…
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