Just Give Them The Remote: How To Beat The Great Resignation At Its Own Game
Just Give Them the Remote: How to Beat the Great Resignation at its Own Game Robert Kovach, PhD The Great Resignation is not just a real thing; it’s a movement. A recent report stated that more than 50% of workers want to make a career change. Now I understand that “wanting” to make a career change is […]
The Transition IS The Competition
Like many people, I’ve been writing a lot lately about the pandemic and two of its biggest impacts on the business world, The Great Resignation, and the hybrid work model. It’s hard to overstate how much the last two years have changed how and with whom people want to spend their time. But as […]
From Pandemic To Permanent: Using The Hybrid Work Model Effectively In Your Organisation
Over the last two years, we’ve obviously moved aggressively and suddenly from on-site work to remote work. And although work from home arrangements were already growing rapidly before the pandemic, COVID-19 wildly accelerated that trend. And I do mean wildly, as in somewhat unplanned, mostly reactionary and not without a bit of chaos. This isn’t […]
Want To Be Part Of The Great Resignation? You May Not Have To Resign Yourself To Anything.
Thanks to the pandemic, we have all accepted a lot of “short-term” changes. . .for more than 18 months. One of those major shifts in how we work, and where we work. This no-longer-short-term change looks like one we’re going to keep, including a major shift in the relationship between workers and employers. The […]
The Case Of The Changing Emoji: Diversity, Equity, And Inclusion In The Workplace
Today’s employers are facing some of the most extraordinary challenges they have seen in decades. Even before the pandemic, the pressures on corporate leaders were more novel and more complex than ever before. Add to that more than 18 months of Covid-19, the related worker-driven movement that is The Great Resignation and a vital […]
What’s College Got To Do With It: Why Companies Are Eliminating Hiring Requirements
In February 2020, retailer The Body Shop implemented a new hiring practice. Going forward, they would hire entry-level seasonal employees on what was basically a first come, first serve basis. That might sound more like a customer-based strategy rather than a hiring one. But the company now practices what they refer to as “open hiring”. […]
The Support Team: Providing More Empathy In The Workplace
It’s now been more than eighteen months since the pandemic began. But few people, if anyone, are saying it’s been such and such many months since the pandemic ended. People talk about things re-opening, or use the phrase ‘post-pandemic’ – but it’s not really back to life before the pandemic. Yet it’s also no longer the […]
Post-Pandemic: Getting Back To A New Normal
I recently took my first business trip since the pandemic began. It was just a short overnight trip, from London to Düsseldorf and back. But the logistics, combined with the emotions, of the trip were as complicated as they were revelatory. I realise now that one of the biggest misnomers of this moment is the […]
Acting Your Age: The Impact Of The Pandemic By Generation
COVID-19 has impacted almost everyone on the planet; that is as incredible as it is irrefutable. Few shared experiences are so truly universal in nature. But it’s also true that how the pandemic affected us varies tremendously. On a national level, the decisions of state actors and individual citizens have had hugely different results in both how […]
Putting Well-Being First
When the Pain Isn’t Worth the Gain: Putting Well-Being First There was nothing normal about the 2020 Olympics. First of all, it wasn’t in 2020 — postponed, like so much of life last year, due to the coronavirus. Ultimately, we saw a version that reflected much of the pandemic-based transformation we’ve seen elsewhere – far […]