Sweet Reason with a dose of Common Sense
I WAS INTO REMOTE work long before anyone called it that. But it took me some time before I had a job suited for it. Back then I was a Vice President at the much maligned, ahead of its time Pets.com — it was an early version of Chewy despite what Chewy’s former CEO says
I CAN’T TELL YOU how many times I longed for hybrid work. It wasn’t called that back when I first asked my boss about it in 2000, or again in 2007-2008, or even as recently as 2016. It wasn’t called hybrid, or remote, or anything back then, but it didn’t matter because I worked for
GETTING EMPLOYEES BACK in the office is a full-time job. The debate over return to work policies continues and shows no sign of going away anytime soon. A story this past week from Bloomberg cuts to the heart of the issue: “Nearly four years after pandemic-induced office shutdowns, the fight over working remotely or showing
HERE’S ANOTHER WRINKLE to the debate over remote and hybrid work — it’s called chronoworking. That’s not a word that rolls off the tongue easily, and it was new to me when I read a BBC Worklife story about it titled The ‘chronoworking’ productivity hack that helps workers excel. So, what is “chronoworking?” As BBC
Editor’s Note: Happy New Year and welcome to January 2024. Here’s hoping that this year is a LOT better than 2023. I’VE HAD A LOT OF JOBS and worked in many different workplaces, but I never heard anyone ever claim that one of the things we needed was more griping on the job. I managed
LEAVE IT TO GALLUP to point out an obvious workforce fact that most people don’t talk about — “58% of American workers work fully on-site and can’t do their jobs remotely.” Consider this the next battle in the war over remote employees returning to the office. Gallup notes that this gets lost in the ongoing
YOU DON’T REALLY KNOW what a four-day work week is like until you actually work one. I know how it is because I found myself working one (more on that shortly) back near the beginning of my career. And you quickly learn this: once you work a four-day work week, you NEVER want to go
Editor’s Note: I’ve written a version of this weekly wrap-up for more than 20 years — from Workforce.com to TLNT.com to Fuel50. Now, I’m doing it here. Let me know what you think at johnhollon@yahoo.com. THERE HAS BEEN an ongoing debate since the pandemic started to wind down, and it comes down to one basic
FIRST, AN APOLOGY: I’ve been writing a lot about recruiting and hiring recently. I’m really sorry for that. My intent was NOT to make this a talent management blog, and that’s easy for me since I worked and wrote about it for so damn long at so many places. But, I still see many things
WORKPLACE DATA COMES IN all shapes and sizes. It also highlights a variety of workplace issues. I try to showcase interesting data here. Sometimes I find it as I’m looking for things to share, but other times, the data finds me — usually courtesy of some PR or marketing professional. This data comes courtesy of a PR person working for blankcalendarpages.com, a company that touts itself as “a leading provider of
