For years, people like me have been banging on about the benefits of flexible working. The concept has been well researched, and by and large
Digging deeper is key. Is it the employee that the Manager doesn’t trust? Or the principle of working from home?
If you’re working from home (as in actually working from home) for the first time, you might be thinking, where do I start? The following has a pretty comprehensive list of things to think about before you start working from home. But if there’s one takeaway that’s more important than any other – it’s over communicate, over communicate, over communicate!!
Yes. It’s the year 2020, and yes, you read the title correctly. According to a recent report by Slater & Gordon, this is perhaps one of the more unexpected aspects of remote working. A whooping 35% of women interviewed claimed to have been subjected to sexist workplace demands whilst working from home.
Obviously I am not the right gender to be writing this post. Perhaps, it is even a bit surprising that I am. After all,
Shared from the 7/22/2021 The West Australian eEdition Job flexibility good for all and points to way of the future TAMMY TANSLEY It must be
What’s making the news work wise Unions fighting for the right to disconnect from work. Don’t have bare shoulders at work… Where to even start
The big takeaway from 2020 is that what was thought to be too hard to do, ended up being very easy when push came to shove.
The trick now will be to consolidate that, and then see what other benefits are relatively easily available.
The trick now will be to learn the lessons from the trial by fire, and work out the bits that don’t work for each organisation. This may mean going backwards to go forwards – to introduce the new normal slowly. To ask what worked, and importantly, why? And what didn’t?
It’s a fine line between being a sticky beak and sticking our nose into unwanted territory – and looking after the welfare of our employees; but as we talked about last week, increasingly work and home are colliding.
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