In last month’s Partnership Employment blog, Relocating Offices? Mindful Choices to Support Employee Wellbeing, we focused on ways to get people, especially Baby Boomers and Millennials, excited about returning to the office. Relocating or remodeling with employees’ physical and mental health in mind were options designed to tempt the remote-insistent folks to rejoin their colleagues for a more human-centered experience. …
Re-working Today’s Must-Have Employee Benefit
It’s time to get everyone back to work. But for employees who are among the 34,000,000 who had COVID, returning might look like this: Complete recovery and happy to head back to the office, or worry and performance anxiety because after several weeks of debilitating illness, they are among the 10-30% who will suffer persistent symptoms such as fatigue, chest pain, shortness …
Why “Why?” is What Your People Really Want to Know
Companies across America are undergoing structural and strategic upheaval. From deciding whether it is wise to mandate vaccines or rolling out distributive workforce plans, business leaders have a lot of ‘splainin’ to do! And it’s hard. Today, many of our decisions hinge on changing variables, some we cannot predict, like viral spread, employees quitting, or the unavailability of computer equipment …
Building a Career is a Stepping Stone, Not a Bungee Jump
Imagine arriving in New York as a young man from small-town U.S.A. with dreams of becoming the next Wall Street superstar. What happened next was not an instant leap to success but a slow slog toward achieving a vision. In this age of “instant” everything – instant data, instant entertainment, instant friends – we learn to expect “instant success.” But …
Munchkin Survival Guide: Tips to Get Work Done at Home
Humor is magical and can lighten even the toughest times. Like trying to work at home with bickering kids! When one poster in a community forum asked, “For those working from home, tell me something your kid(s) did today, but refer to them as co-workers,” she got some hilarious responses: “My co-workers fought over a Lego box. Then they chased each other around …
