Don't let employees determine remote work schedules | From coaching to competition, how 6 companies survived | Why networking should be part of your job
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Writer Ingrid Rojas Contreras uses self-mesmerism to induce a trance-like state in order to get deep work done. The age-old technique, a precursor to hypnotism, includes having a ritual as well as visual and sound cues to be able to tune out distractions and tell the mind that it's time to concentrate.
Decisions about work-from-home schedules should be left to managers -- not the employees -- because remote work can cause employees to feel excluded and have a negative effect on diversity, writes Nicholas Bloom, Stanford University professor. "Single young men could all choose to come into the office five days a week and rocket up the firm, while employees with young children, particularly women, who choose to WFH for several days each week are held back," Bloom writes.
Hiring a business coach amid the COVID-19 pandemic was a financial stretch for PR firm owner Jessie Cohen, but "the return on investment has been very obvious and tangible," she says. Cohen and five other business owners share survival tips, from befriending competitors to accepting help.
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CEOs Jennifer Tejada and Yvonne Wassenaar share how networking led them to becoming chief executives at startups and eventually to other leadership opportunities. "If you think about your network as currency, you approach it very differently than if you think of it as a necessary evil or something that you have to do in order to get ahead," Tejada says.
Nine out of 10 companies say they will likely stick to some form of the remote work that were brought on by the pandemic, according to a survey by McKinsey. It will be fascinating to see what impact this has on recruiting trends and the housing market in cities large and small.
The federal government is planning a change that could enable more employees than ever to work remotely after the pandemic ends. Details of the sweeping change are still being finalized, with the administration expected to release guidance on the matter in June, and hybrid models are expected to be part of the arrangement.
Lego has launched its largest toy ever. It is a map of the world and it ONLY has 11,695 pieces. Sounds like something that would make an excellent backdrop for all those Zoom calls you might be doing from home forever.
