After a year of working remotely, many of us have settled into a routine. But as vaccination rates rise and businesses reopen across the U.S., many employers are starting to consider bringing workers back to the office, at least part time.
Employees ma…
With so many more people working from home during the pandemic, employers have stepped up the extent to which they are monitoring them online. Not so many years ago, employees were having to adjust to having their work emails monitored; but that seems …
As the workplace revolution accelerates, we are witnessing an overhaul in what it means for companies to be flexible. The conversation is no longer solely focused on work-from-home or even hybrid work. Due to generational demand and the shift of the wo…
A critical way we maintain relationships is by being in tune with others—reading facial expressions, interpreting emotions, and responding. But this has been tough over the last year. We haven’t seen each other as much, so we may be out o…
Reducing uncertainty around returning to work will be critical for a successful reopening. From the employer side, some may be eager to resume in-person business as usual, but the employees might feel differently. Companies should recognize that Covid-…
In most organizations—those large and small and across industries—there is a group of employees who are part of a unique club. For these team members, it’s not their roles or seniority that they have in common. It’s their st…
In 2011, Google set out to engineer the perfect team, or at least understand it. In an internal analysis known as Project Aristotle, they surveyed hundreds of teams of engineers and managers, to isolate characteristics that made them efficient and effe…
The pandemic has influenced every facet of our lives including our circle of friends. In the before-COVID-19 era, most people had social lives organized around meeting people in locations for activities. Colleagues might get together for a drink after …
What happens when you land your dream job but it turns out to be anything but?
Friends, career consultants and the media inundate us with a constant barrage of advice telling us to follow our dreams, find our bliss or pursue our passions in our profess…
One of the biggest life lessons I have learned over the years is that it’s okay to go against the grain. I believe that sometimes you need to reject a social norm to stay true to yourself—and the reason I know that’s true is becaus…
