Everyone seems to have an opinion about performance reviews and whether they work. But most employees want feedback, according to a recent survey by employee visibility software company Prodoscore. The survey found that roughly half of respondents don&…
Many businesses that moved to remote work in response to the COVID-19 pandemic were surprised to find in the first month that the shift was less painful than expected. Companies have long treated work outside the office—whether remote, with flex…
Corporate America: We need to talk about your Employee Resource Groups (ERGs).
We became familiar with ERGs when many welcomed us to speak on the gender and racial justice themes we write about in our books. As one of the most powerful trends in the U….
Due to the COVID-19 crisis, many people are working from home. This posed a challenge for some who must balance work and child care. Read More
2020 has inspired all of us to do some soul-searching. We’re asking ourselves big questions about what we value, how we want to spend our time, and where we want to be in life. As a result, people are making moves. My company is based in New Yor…
We’re months into the biggest remote work experiment of our lifetimes, and for many, it’s going well. A future where we work from home at least part of the workweek, even beyond the pandemic, is now favored by 82% of company leaders.
As o…
A night of fitful tossing. A bedtime and wake time that fluctuate daily. A workday that begins sluggishly and ends later than you intended.
If this sounds familiar, your work-from-home routine (or lack thereof) may be the cause. “We might expect…
There are a couple of countries in the world that have gotten pay equity legislation right. The U.S. is not one of them.
But Australia is. Why? In 2014, they started requiring companies to publicly disclose their pay equity analyses. In the years that …
Remote presentations aren’t going away anytime soon. Zoom, Skype, and WebEx gatherings are the new normal. Business leaders and their employees need to learn how to replicate in a virtual environment the interactions and two-way dialogue that ma…
If there’s one thing we know to be true in the business world, it’s that where Google leads, others will follow. Recently the company announced its plan to let employees work from home through the summer of 2021. If arguably the number-on…
