Remove Management Remove Networking Remove Policies Remove Survey
article thumbnail

The Importance Of Connecting RTO Strategies With DEI To Meet The Needs Of Diverse Demographics

Allwork

Employee Resource Groups should be actively involved in shaping return-to-office policies, ensuring they meet the distinct needs of various demographics within the workforce and maintaining inclusivity. Such programs also help women build robust professional networks that are essential for career advancement.

Policies 306
article thumbnail

How To Hire And Manage Freelancers, According To Experts

Allwork

You can’t get the best out of freelancers until you’ve honed your management processes. And the key to good management — freelance or otherwise — is communication. Clear communication up front, and continuing conversation through regular check-ins and transparent project management helps streamline workflows and prevent confusion.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Five Essential Strategies for Successful Hybrid Leadership

Allwork

When it comes to transitioning to hybrid work and managing hybrid teams, managers often attempt to fit their familiar office-centric management approaches into a hybrid work model, leading to burnout when outcomes fall short of expectations. However, middle managers are bearing the brunt. Consequently, 74% of U.S.

Policies 246
article thumbnail

The Four Horsemen of the Mandated Return to Office

Allwork

A Future Forum survey found that 21% of all White knowledge workers wanted a return to full-time in-office work, but only 3% of all Black knowledge workers wanted the same. A June 2022 McKinsey survey of all workers, remote-capable and not, provides further context on preferences for hybrid work. Resistance .

2022 342
article thumbnail

Pipeline of women managers has stalled in wake of pandemic

Workplace Insight

In addition, fewer than half (45 percent) of organisations surveyed report they have made advancing more women into leadership roles a top, formal business priority. But the reality is, at the current rate of change based on survey data, gender parity is still decades away.

article thumbnail

Gen Z’s Impact On The Workplace: Tech-Enabled And Collaborative

Allwork

Office design can support these needs with flexible spaces for in-person training and group meetings, experiential spaces to draw in people of all generations, and social hubs to foster conversation and community, all supported by thoughtful policies. Climate change and environmental sustainability are also top concerns for Gen Z workers.

article thumbnail

Designing with Insight and Intention: Uncovering Behavioral and Functional Needs

Allwork

Being together helps us develop empathy, trust and our personal networks, and enables us to experience diversity — and through inclusion — cultivate a strong sense of belonging. The optimal way to collect a team’s key collaboration activities is through transparent two-way dialogue and discussion-based focus groups, not surveys.