All Work
DECEMBER 7, 2022
There is a growing demand to deliver technologically advanced workplaces in a humane and timeless manner. Smart offices are the need of the hour. . Humanistic strategies include designing workplaces for the well-being of people, responding to the new requirements of COVID guidelines, ergonomics, universal accessibility and biophilia, through the use of technology. .
Insperity
DECEMBER 6, 2022
Work-life balance has been an employee mantra for decades. Its meaning has become engrained in our culture, as it’s brought up in discussion in ways like, “Make sure you have a good work-life balance and take time to spend with your family without working too much.”. But a change is underway that further upends the way work is viewed. Life-work balance is a new term that reflects a shift in how employees perceive the role of work in their lives.
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Tanveer Naseer
DECEMBER 7, 2022
At GEC Research Center, we surveyed 1,400 current and aspiring leaders to pinpoint the most pivotal ways in which people undercut their own executive presence. We found 8 extremely common forms of self-sabotage: Whether you’re exhibiting a couple or all of these behaviours, it’s affecting how others perceive you. Let’s. Click to continue reading.
Success
DECEMBER 6, 2022
With the economy making everyone extra cautious about spending , I really wanted to give myself the gift of not worrying about money this holiday season. But even with inflation going down, I knew I could be setting myself up for disappointment. How can anyone on a budget relax about money during the holidays? Of course, we can make attempts like embracing self-care.
Business Psych Blog
DECEMBER 6, 2022
Consider this scenario; you’re setting off to meet your friend Peter for the picnic that you have planned. You’ve googled the journey, checked for delays, topped up on fuel, and spent the last week avidly monitoring the weather. You have even earmarked a nearby restaurant just in case it rains. Peter, it seems, although excited about the picnic, hasn’t even begun to think through his plans for the journey; punching the postcode into his GPS as he pulls out of his driveway…as for the weather?
Workplace Insight
DECEMBER 9, 2022
One of the latest people to invent activity-based working is sociologist Ana Andjelic, who combines it with the similarly familiar hub and spoke office model on her substack as a solution to the Great Office Problem. She’s not the first and is a less surprising pioneer of a decades old model than some other people who should really know better. That includes an architectural practice who came up with the idea earlier this year and whose name escapes me.
Great Place to Work
DECEMBER 6, 2022
What a year of workplace paradoxes. “Quiet Quitters” rejected hustle culture while (alarmingly) employee productivity tracking software was trending. A lasting tidal wave of quitting, kicked off by “The Great Resignation” of 2021, crashed into a tsunami of tech layoffs. It’s enough to leave anyone dazed and confused. But, working with Certified™ great workplaces, I know there are bright spots.
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Vantage Circle
DECEMBER 7, 2022
Employee engagement is at the core of every organization. An organization's success depends heavily on its employees' degree of engagement. An engaged workforce is often a satisfied workforce. But what is it that drives employee engagement? Schaufeli et al (2002) define engagement as " a positive, fulfilling, work-related state of mind characterized by vigor, dedication, and absorption." Hewitt Associates (2004) developed an 18-item scale to measure employee engagement.
Workplace Insight
DECEMBER 7, 2022
New research from City & Guilds suggests that the odds are being stacked against young people’s futures and career aspirations – particularly the most disadvantaged. Following a trend of chronically high youth unemployment, the poll of 5,000 18-24-year-olds living in the UK claims that 13 percent are currently unemployed (not in work or studying) and a further 3 percent are economically inactive – equating to approximately 859,000 young adults out of work and education across the UK.
Quantum Workplace
DECEMBER 9, 2022
Employee retention is a top 3 priority for 77% of HR leaders and 62% of senior leaders going into 2023. This is no surprise as the Great Resignation persists and another period of economic uncertainty looms. But while retention is top of mind , many leaders admit their employee retention strategies aren’t very effective. Most say their organization’s approach is at the intermediate or beginner level.
Success
DECEMBER 8, 2022
Professional success is a culmination of many key factors. Your education matters—maybe not as much as you think, but a degree in your field can really jump-start your progress. Experience certainly matters, but that can only come to you after years of dedication. Talent matters, too, but aside from skills (which develop from experience) much of your talent is an innate tendency to perform better in certain areas.
Ask a Manager
DECEMBER 5, 2022
This post, update: I work at Twitter … what do I do? , was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. It’s “where are you now?” month at Ask a Manager, and all December I’m running updates from people who had their letters here answered in the past. There will be more posts than usual this week, so keep checking back throughout the day.
Workplace Insight
DECEMBER 5, 2022
Millions of employees will be able to request flexible working from day one of their employment, under new government plans to make flexible working the default. Flexible working doesn’t just mean a combination of working from home and in the office – it can mean employees making use of job-sharing, flexitime, and working compressed, annualised, or staggered hours.
Ruby
DECEMBER 9, 2022
Small businesses run on passion. But they’re also powered by something a bit more tangible, a bit more fungible, a bit more… green. We’re talking, of course, about cold hard cash. Unfortunately, anyone who’s owned their own business knows that getting paid on time isn’t always easy. Some clients are simply forgetful, while others simply can’t be bothered.
Success
DECEMBER 4, 2022
As the year comes to a close, people are naturally going to be talking about their New Year’s resolutions and setting goals for self-improvement. But want to know what I think you should really be focusing on in the new year? These four ways to further your career and be successful at whatever it is that you do: 1. Become a deep practitioner in something.
Chart Logic
DECEMBER 8, 2022
EHR solutions are a critical piece of the healthcare tech stack. A feature-rich platform meets the needs of clinicians by streamlining workflows and improving the quality of care. Unfortunately, not all systems deliver the same value and may require users to spend more time with the technology than with patients. In these scenarios, EHRs are more of a hindrance than a help regarding healthcare management.
Workplace Insight
DECEMBER 7, 2022
A study from Unispace claims that the majority of workplaces are not set up to enable staff to work to their best ability. The results of the poll of 3,000 office workers and 2,750 employers across Europe, found that despite 78 percent of businesses stating that their office has been set up to enable staff to be creative and productive, over half (52 percent) of employers noted that creativity and innovation among their employees increased while work from home guidance was in place.
Productivityist
DECEMBER 7, 2022
If Jennifer Smith is right, the way anyone shares how-to knowledge is about to change forever. A former VC and McKinsey consultant turned accidental CEO, she interviewed more than 1,200 business leaders on a quest to understand everything there is to know about processes, best practices, and productivity. Now with her startup Scribe , she’s empowering people to own their processes by building the world’s first operating system for know-how.
Success
DECEMBER 9, 2022
Right brain versus left brain. Art versus math. We subscribe to one side or the other. When we’re stumped by a problem, it’s not because we’re not trying; it’s simply not in our DNA. Creativity, it seems, blesses only a few. In a 2007 TED Talk, Vilayanur S. Ramachandran, Ph.D., a neuroscientist and director of the Center for Brain and Cognition at the University of California, San Diego, said that synesthesia—a condition that causes people to link two sensory perceptions involuntarily—is e
Ruby
DECEMBER 6, 2022
According to the most recent U.S. Census , over 41 million Americans speak Spanish at home. That’s 1 in 8 people—which means your small business probably already serves a handful of Spanish-speaking customers or clients. But why stop there? Whether you want to open up your business to more people or you’re interested in being more inclusive of the people already in your network, one way to do both (almost immediately) is to offer bilingual customer support.
Workplace Insight
DECEMBER 6, 2022
The UK government has announced that all workers will now gain the right to request flexible working as a day one right – as to after 6 months of employment in the previous legislation. This move is a very welcome one, yet not enough to make flexible working a norm for all workers. To ensure that workers are truly able to access flexible working arrangements, we need to tackle the flexibility stigma still rampant in the UK.
Greetly
DECEMBER 6, 2022
Executive Summary Having a plan for holiday visitors, especially during Black Friday or Cyber Monday sales events is vital for smooth operations during significant visitor influxes. A visitor management system will most likely have the right tools that will allow you to manage business visitors remotely, allowing you to spend time with your family while monitoring business operations.
Success
DECEMBER 9, 2022
I tie my turquoise hip belt around my waist, feeling the weight of the gold coins against my skin. I press my bare soles into the wooden floor and twist my arms like snakes, one to the left, one to the right. I bend my knees and move my hips to the front, to the side, to the back, to the side. I gently shake my knees; my torso begins to undulate. I can’t stop smiling.
Go Burrows
DECEMBER 4, 2022
Rajiv became an Admin Business Partner in Jan 2022. Prior to that, Rajiv worked as a Tech Headhunter & Recruiter for 8.5 years. In this episode, Rajiv shares his story of transitioning from working as a headhunter and recruiter for 8.5 years to becoming an admin business partner at Google. I enjoyed talking with Rajiv about how to work with recruiters, having fun at work, and more.
Workplace Insight
DECEMBER 4, 2022
New research published by Boston Consulting Group (BCG) claims that while 94 percent of companies have big aspirations to deliver substantial and rapid impact from digital transformation, and companies plan to increase investment in digital transformation in spite of global economic headwinds, the majority of these projects fail to achieve their objectives.
Ask a Manager
DECEMBER 8, 2022
This post, my employee gossiped about a conversation she eavesdropped on , was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: I am the general manager of a large company. Recently I had a closed-door meeting in my office with our HR manager, Jenny, discussing the issues of the week, including disciplining a difficult employee and succession planning for Jenny’s unannounced new role in the company.
Success
DECEMBER 6, 2022
New Year’s resolutions are a chance to fire up the willpower that waned in the previous year. They’re a chance to resolve to make ourselves do better, live more fully and stop holding ourselves back. That resolve can go a long way—but only if it’s backed up by action items that are tailored to who we are and what motivates us to change. Using the Enneagram, we can set goals and craft New Year’s resolutions with an understanding of why we act the way we do and what it will take for us to tr
Minding the Workplace
DECEMBER 4, 2022
. Back in October, I shared a short viewer’s guide to the 1944 film Gaslight ( link here ), noting that it inspired the pop psych term gaslighting , which is “now used to characterize psychologically manipulative and controlling behaviors in interpersonal relationships, the political realm, and — of course — our workplaces.” Well, little did I know that the folks at the venerable Merriam-Webster dictionary would designate gaslighting as their “word of the year” f
Workplace Insight
DECEMBER 4, 2022
Women are much more likely than men to be in flexible working arrangements that mean they lose hours, and therefore pay, according to new TUC analysis of official statistics. The findings have been published, a year after the government closed its consultation on flexible work, and ahead of the next committee stage of Yasmin Qureshi MP’s private members bill on flexible work.
Ask a Manager
DECEMBER 8, 2022
This post, update: my interviewer sent me an email saying my scars are triggering , was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. It’s “where are you now?” month at Ask a Manager, and all December I’m running updates from people who had their letters here answered in the past. There will be more posts than usual this week, so keep checking back throughout the day.
Success
DECEMBER 7, 2022
Things were starting to unravel, but I needed to stay positive. In 2005, Primerica’s almost decade-long partnership with Citigroup had reached the point where we just didn’t fit within their environment anymore. It was causing problems for both them and us. Around Christmas that year, things had escalated to the point where we had to call a meeting with their CEO to find a solution that would help both companies.
NeoAcademic
DECEMBER 5, 2022
Have you ever wondered about the demographics of IO Psychology PhDs? The National Science Foundation recently released its report from the 2021 Survey of Earned Doctorates , which summarizes trends in doctoral education across US universities. There are a few interesting tidbits about the IO psychology degrees awarded back in 2021: IO psychology PhD programs awarded 181 research doctorates in 2021, which accounts for 4.9% of all doctoral degrees in psychology and 0.3% of all doctoral degrees awa
Workplace Insight
DECEMBER 4, 2022
Workplace engagement is approaching an all-time low, and typical employer reaction has been characteristically resigned. Actually, that last statement was inaccurately soft. Let me rephrase: most employees either don’t care about or actually hate their jobs, and employers couldn’t care less. Gallup recently issued their biennial global engagement survey – the widest and most accurate in the world if the sheer numbers of participants are anything to go by.
Ask a Manager
DECEMBER 6, 2022
This post, my good employee is angry about my bad employee, boss insists I get my tonsils out, and more , was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. I’m on vacation. Here are some past letters that I’m making new again, rather than leaving them to wilt in the archives. 1. My good employee is angry about my bad employee. I have two employees who have both worked here for over 20 years.
Success
DECEMBER 9, 2022
Generation Z only knows a digitized world. Those born between 1997 and 2012 were raised with connectivity at their fingertips. Now, as they enter the workforce, they have become a consumer powerhouse. Their shopping habits aren’t strictly confined to online—they are intentional and omnichannelled. Unlike millennials, Gen Zers are vying for a shopping experience, but they aren’t opting for big-box stores.
Great Place to Work
DECEMBER 6, 2022
An ally is a partner, a person who has your back. Whether on the playing field or in a courtroom, an ally works alongside you to reach shared goals. They won’t leave or let you down. They’re committed. What does it mean to be an ally in the workplace? Allyship in the workplace means using your personal privilege to support colleagues from historically marginalized communities.
Workplace Insight
DECEMBER 8, 2022
A new poll from law firm Gowling WLG claims to reveal a stark difference in attitudes in Western and Eastern nations when it comes to the metaverse. It claims that the technology is set to change how we work and socialise forever, and that early adopters like China and the United Arab Emirates are already reaping the economic benefits. The firm’s Immaterial World report compared attitudes towards the metaverse in six international markets.
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