12 Aug 2024
Would you describe the hybrid workplace as a mule or as a platypus? Stick with me, because the question is not as crazy as it might sound.
29 Jul 2024
One of the more interesting and talked-about topics around remote and hybrid working is how it impacts people’s mental health.
09 Jul 2024
As hybrid working becomes more and more widespread, one of the biggest difficulties that has emerged is how to manage individual performance when some people are in the office more than others.
06 Jun 2024
For people working remotely, an internal re-organization or an external buyout can be especially disconcerting and confusing.
18 Apr 2024
It has been four years since Covid caused a seismic change in how and where people work. But are North America and Europe handling this trend in the same way? The evidence says not.
18 Mar 2024
Working remotely can be great, but it can also be isolating, especially on those days when you’re lacking motivation or just can’t seem to get to grips with what needs to be done.
27 Feb 2024
How are team’s hybrid working arrangements working out? Are they better or worse than you expected?
17 Jan 2024
One of the biggest complaints about working remotely is that communication has become a series of transactions. But why is that a problem?
13 Dec 2023
It doesn’t matter if your team is co-located, fully remote, or hybrid. Work slows if people can’t get access to the critical information they need to do their jobs.
17 Nov 2023
We all have biases that occasionally get us in trouble. And that's as true in a remote management context as it is in any other workplace setting.
18 Oct 2023
Why do some people work from home and others prefer (or have no choice but) to work in the office? The reasons are more varied than you might think.
07 Sep 2023
How do you keep employees engaged when they aren’t interacting with colleagues every day? The answer is to try to include them whenever the opportunity arises.
05 Jul 2023
An issue many managers come up against on remote or hybrid teams is that there are fewer opportunities to inspect peoples' work in person, or on-demand. Dealing with this is all about expectations.
04 Apr 2023
First was "the Great Resignation." Then there was "Quiet Quitting." But the latest buzzword flying around to help us understand the changing workplace is "the Great Mismatch."
09 Mar 2023
The trend for remote work was rising for years before the COVID tsunami hit. But now we've passed that first big wave of change, what will teamwork look like going forward?
17 Feb 2023
Three years of Covid-inspired disruption to the way work is done has left uncertainty in its wake. But waving a magic wand and saying, "we're going back to the way things were," isn't going to work for a number of reasons.
24 Jan 2023
How do we judge a company or team's culture? What role does working together physically play in creating it? Maybe more important, and harder to answer - how do we know?
13 Dec 2022
Some unwelcome workplace behaviors disappear when we work remotely. But when the way we work changes, so do the ways we manage to annoy and undermine each other.