May 18What Remote Workers Are NotThey 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…Remote Work4 min readRemote Work4 min read
May 11It’s Time to Really Get a Handle on Remote WorkThe 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…Remote Working4 min readRemote Working4 min read
Aug 13, 2021Corporate America: Stop Your Back-to-the Office PlansHere’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. …Remote Leadership3 min readRemote Leadership3 min read
Jul 11, 2021America (and the World) is Having a Major Medical IncidentIt’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…Remote Working4 min readRemote Working4 min read
May 3, 2021Remote Work is [Officially] a ThingAfter 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…Remote Working4 min readRemote Working4 min read
Jul 19, 2020Public Health, the Pandemic, and Congressman John LewisIt’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…Pandemic4 min readPandemic4 min read