Businesses have dealt with unprecedented challenges over the past two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Following federal or state mandates, enforcing customers to wear masks and requiring social distancing…
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Book Review: Suddenly Hybrid Provides Good Advice on How to Manage Our New Way of Meeting
Karin Reed and Joseph Allen have written a great sequel to their book, Suddenly Virtual, titled, naturally enough, Suddenly Hybrid: Managing the Modern Meeting. It should be required reading for…
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The recipe for attracting and retaining top talent
Two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, we’ve seen record numbers of people leaving their jobs. With demand for workers on the rise, employees and job-seekers are in a position to…
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Time to Fire Your Jerk Boss
Whether you fire everyone on a group Zoom call or dump someone’s last paycheck on their lawn in oily pennies, there are lots of ways to be a jerk boss….
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What Are You Hopeful For?
One rainy day during the holiday break I learned in quick succession that (1) my daughter and her boyfriend’s entire family in New York were sick with COVID; (2) the…
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Increasing Career Opportunities in the Time of the Great Reset
Every so often, the employment landscape takes a significant shift. This can be the result of new technology, changes in workers’ rights and industrial needs. Recently, the COVID-19 pandemic has…
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The Number of Digital Nomads Surged Again in 2021
The pandemic-driven seismic shift to remote led to continued strong growth in the number of American digital nomads in 2021. The 2021 State of Independence research study found that 15.5…
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The Best Way to Battle Burnout
The recent Vox Media/Watermark survey of professional women was full of nuggets about what women want from the future of work. Hybrid and remote work, more time off, more mentoring…
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Understanding career skeptics and the role of employee monitoring
We all know that the pandemic has had a major impact on employment patterns: not just more people working from home, but fewer people returning to their pre-Covid jobs. This…
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What Women Want to Thrive at Work
After 20 months of working through the pandemic, women are exhausted, overwhelmed, sick of school closings, ready to burn our masks in a giant bonfire. Millions of us have left…
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