When trying to determine the future, you can read Tarot cards, look in a crystal ball, or follow the money being invested by people who can afford to make big bets. One of the biggest wagers recently (although it’s a pretty safe one) is that Salesforce is going to pay $27.7 Billion dollars to purchase Slack. Forget about the number for a minute. It makes my head spin and I … [Read more...]
Take Your Darned Vacation Days
We learned a lot during the first year of working from home. One of the things nobody expected was that it is a lot harder to take time off than anyone previously thought. We know this because a record number of people didn’t take vacation or personal time last year, or if they did they left a lot of it unused. Now that we are a year in, many of us will continue to work from … [Read more...]
How Are You Feeling?
by Kevin Eikenberry Much has been written over the past few months about the mental health challenges for those working from home for more than a year, as they navigated changes to jobs and unclear expectations, and challenges with balancing their work and life all while never leaving the house and doing it all during a pandemic. The challenges for everyone during this … [Read more...]
Is Your Remote Manager Doing Better Than You Are?
A recent report from Microsoft acknowledges and puts numbers to something many of us who work remotely have felt in our guts: Many remote managers are thriving with work-from-home, while their employees are feeling more stressed than ever. Microsoft's latest white paper, The Next Great Disruption is Hybrid Work-Are We Ready? is full of fascinating insights into how the last … [Read more...]
What’s in a Word?
by Kevin Eikenberry As I look ahead at the murky future of work, I know that words and how we choose them will play a role in what unfolds and how successful we are. Here are some examples. The Words We’ve Chosen When organizations sent their people to “work from home,” for many that became the phrase they used. On social media hashtags like #Workfromhome and #WFH were … [Read more...]