Sweet Reason with a dose of Common Sense
Editor’s note: From time to time I’ve been reposting some of my most popular articles from the past. This one was published here and on LinkedIn back in September 2017. I’VE WORKED WITH a lot of leaders during my career, and I could go on all day about the qualities that separate the good from
SOME WORKPLACE ISSUES seem to pop up over and over again, and if you stick around long enough you’ll get another round of suggestions on how to handle them. Last week, I found an article at Chief Executive on a workplace topic I’ve written about a lot over the years, and you may have dealt
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
Editor’s Note: This is my last blog post of the year. It’s a Skeptical Guy holiday classic from back in December 2018. See you in the New Year! I’VE WORKED THROUGH so many holiday seasons that I feel a little like Clark Griswold. If that name doesn’t ring a bell, the character should. It’s the role
Editor’s Note: This is the final Workplace Week That Was for 2023. We’ll return next year. HERE’S A FINAL THOUGHT on the year-end job market — it’s an odd and frustrating time to try to find a new job. One of the indicators of just how odd an employment market we have is a story
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
Editor’s Note: I’ve been republishing some classic posts, and here’s a Skeptical Guy holiday classic. This one is from November 2018. YOU KNOW HOW the song goes — “it’s the most wonderful time of the year.” It’s also the most stressful time of thew year, too. Everyone knows that the holiday season runs from Thanksgiving through
FOR ALL THE HULLABALOO we keep hearing about Artificial Intelligence and all the advancements that will flow from it, there’s another school of thought to keep in mind. You may be hearing it more these days, and it’s this: Perhaps the AI hype was a little overblown. Case in point: A timely story from Computerworld
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
