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How’s Work Today?

How’s Work Today?

Radically different but completely the same  The conversations that follow between a writer and interviewee have been selected for their relevance to the new world of work and the future of work. The conversations were real. They’ve been edited for focus and...
Office Space:  The Future of the Workplace

Office Space: The Future of the Workplace

“Never let a good crisis go to waste.” -Winston Churchill A crisis unmoors us, but while it casts us into the unfamiliar, it releases us from the habitual. It gives us the terrifying opportunity to examine the assumptions we hold dear.  Is the way...
Our Labor Reflected

Our Labor Reflected

From the silent era to outrageous satire to gut-wrenching portrayals of corporate dilemmas. For nearly a century, film and television have chronicled the American workplace.  Charlie Chaplin’s “Modern Times” set off the genre in 1936. One of the last major silent...
Moving Past Being Upset

Moving Past Being Upset

HR departments have to help executives manage new expectations Workers — current workers, former workers, wannabe workers — got most of the attention as the workplace evolved during the depths of the pandemic and the sputtering, lurching recovery that followed. That’s...
Work Life Balance

Work Life Balance

Let’s try the other way around. It seems that work is having a moment. And while it’s true that nobody saw it coming, it’s brought to you by computers (technology), the internet (technology), the digital age (technology), and of all things, a global pandemic that...
Meet Me At The Digital Water Cooler

Meet Me At The Digital Water Cooler

Maintaining connection in the remote/hybrid workplace  If we’ve learned anything in the past couple of years, it’s that tech tools are vital in the remote/hybrid workplace.  “A specific location is simply no longer a prerequisite to working effectively or building a...