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6 Brutally Honest Lessons About Working From Home

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In fact, it’s often a journey filled with unexpected pitfalls and hard-learned lessons. Here are five things I’ve learned the hard way about working from home. Your Couch is a Siren, Not a Desk When I first started working from home, I thought, “Great, I can work from my couch! The solution? A lot of it.

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Five Essential Strategies for Successful Hybrid Leadership

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Such a focus on office visibility reflects a highly traditional leadership mindset, rooted in the illusion of control. This cognitive bias leads us to overestimate the extent of control we have over external events. They believe that physical presence in the office guarantees productivity.

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Being furloughed affected people’s sense of time and relationship with work

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Another, a café manager, used furlough to learn creative writing and dance through online classes. Joanna set herself up with volunteer work in the charity sector, made a home office and worked from nine to five, with tea breaks and lunch breaks, “to have that element of still working” and to make her days feel like normal working days.

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Reconnecting older workers with the office: have we retired what matters most?

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When asked what they would change about their office as a priority, 23% stated that they want access to more private spaces. Each of the generations want something different from the office. Those early on in their careers are more influenced by being able to learn from their peers than those further along in their professional lives.

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How Designers Can Set The Stage For A Flexible Future

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Continuous listening and learning from staff feedback allows leadership to best understand how and where team members want to work and where friction points lie. Regardless of status, each employee is given a $1,000 stipend to set up their home office. Here’s how we are responding: Feedback Loop. A Little WFH Help.

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Generations in the workplace: setting the record straight

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It would seem the workplace world does not agree with that perspective, if event programmes and the volume of articles on the topic are anything to go by. Natalia Vavilina : The pandemic has shown us that people prefer average home office experience over average office experience.

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Julie Whelan CBRE Global Head of Occupier Research | It’s Time to Unleash the Workforce

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What you’ll learn. Research: Current ‘back to office’ and hybrid work patterns. Julie is the lead author of CBRE Semiannual Office Use Surveys, and we’ll be digging into their most recent pulse date during this episode. So, I’m looking forward to learning the latest and I’m sure I’m not the only one.