Tag: working remotely

Are RTO Policies and In-Office Mandates Just a Return to More Managerial Control?

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

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Want Hybrid Work to Work? Gallup Says You Need a “Workplace Value Proposition”

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

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It’s Hard Getting Remote Workers Back in the Office. Is Hybrid a Better Approach?

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

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Debating remote work? Then why not talk about when workers are most productive?

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

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