I remember, back in 2020, when lockdowns first began and we were all forced to stay home for a prolonged period of time. Some of the habits we adopted to cope ended up being better than we imagined: learning to bake bread from scratch, spending all day…
Within the Chinese phrase for “busyness,” there is a piece of important wisdom: The phrase consists of two characters, one meaning “to kill” and the other meaning “heart.”
This idea that busyness kills your hea…
One of the most prejudicial misconceptions about gender equity is that it’s solely a women’s issue. Or a social justice cause. Or a mouthful of spit-on-men rhetoric. But gender equity isn’t a zero-sum game. Nor is it synonymous wit…
Almost all Fortune 500 companies have Employee Resource Groups (ERGs), yet only a fraction (5%) of organizations actually financially compensate their ERG leaders. This disconnect is another all-too-common example of the chasm between companies’…
Employees—physicians and fast-food workers, teachers and hotel staff—are resigning in unprecedented numbers, often in distress. Managers are at a loss for how to respond. Attempts to address employee dissatisfaction and burnout with bonus…
The coronavirus pandemic for many people has represented a driver of personal and professional changes—some welcome, some not so welcome. For instance, if you’re a worker who doesn’t have access to a computer or a dependable intern…
This past summer, in the midst of raising funding for our second company, my cofounder Yann and I were immediately faced with a major obstacle: We had to hire a team of six people ASAP, in the midst of the Great Resignation.
We needed to act fast in o…
During the first phase of the pandemic, some working parents had a lever to pull if their children’s school or daycare shuttered due to COVID or if their child was quarantined. The Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA), signed by Presi…
The pandemic exposed some of the best and worst management practices at some of the world’s most storied enterprise organizations. Almost no company had plans to pivot to a remote work environment in the blink of an eye, but that’s exactl…
It wasn’t that long ago that companies were making plans for their 2022 return to the office. Then, omicron hit, and many of those plans were bumped again, continuing the remote or hybrid workplace norm for many.
Over the past two years, compani…
