The success of remote and hybrid teams rest on whether leaders have these key skills. So what’s the difference between general leadership training and remote leadership training? Probably more than you know, or you might not be asking the question. …

It’s time to value employees by contribution not location. The pandemic knocked us all out of our comfort zones, employers and employees alike. We made it work — literally — spending hours on videoconference meetings, honing our communication skills, and hastily drawing diagrams on digital whiteboard applications. …

They aren’t lazy, and they deserve your respect. I get Google alerts about remote work sent to my research email account on a daily basis. I was looking through the article titles and one of them caught my eye, so I clicked through. The page turned out to be a…

The emphasis on COVID-19 may be receding, but remote work is here to stay. Over the past year I’ve been watching companies start to insist that workers come back to the office at least a few days a week. Having them there is like a security blanket for managers; “if…

Here’s some tough love for you: it’s OK to favor employee safety over optics. We are not post-pandemic. There’s just no denying it: the delta variant is putting even vaccinated people at risk. Now is not the time to proceed with your “get everyone back to the office” plans. …

It’s not surprising that office workers are favoring hybrid or remote work. Here’s why. It was my husband’s birthday in 2015. We planned to go out to dinner right after work, and agreed to use a different park-and-ride to shorten the time it would take us to make it to…

After a year of success, we must NOT turn away from it. It’s been more than a year now since the pandemic shut down life as we knew it. We learned how to make masks, how to wear a mask (which in my case involves overcoming claustrophobia), how to pick…

It’s an odd combination for a title, I know, but bear with me. As the debate continues over mask-wearing in the middle of the pandemic, something has started to bother me. I think I’ve realized that Americans as a whole don’t understand the concept of “public health.” We live in…