While companies have become increasingly comfortable with the idea that hybrid work arrangements are a permanent reality, they are still working to re-orient how they operate. In other words, the day-to-day function has mostly been a revision of our historical work environment. Companies have swapped out in-person meetings for Zoom calls, updated benefits to include…
Not working from home. Not working at the office. What the new workplace might look like. The focus of the last few years have been on working remotely and hybrid work arrangements. Understandably so, as the way employees are interacting with organisations has changed dramatically. But the conversation has centered around two alternatives: working at…
Currently the managing partner of a Vancouver-based executive search and management consulting firm, Incoming Chancellor Whitehead’s notable 30-year career has spanned equally across the private and not-for-profit sectors. Raised in Lethbridge, he attended ULethbridge and was active on Students’ Union council and The Meliorist, and was SU president in 1990/1991. As a student, he immersed…
The new world order that we have settled into since the pandemic now feels equal parts strange and familiar. We don’t see masks as often, but when we do, we don’t react. Whether you learn someone is working fully remote permanently or is on site every day, it seems equally normal. While the initial resistance…
After the worldwide upheaval of Covid-19, it is clear that we’re never going back to work the way we knew it. According to a World Economic Forum survey, 70% of UK respondents said they prefer hybrid work arrangements. And while most employers are working to find ways to meet the new needs of talent, they still…
When I began my career in the late nineties, I was working in Warsaw. There were not a lot of Americans, but a handful of us began to informally meet on Saturday mornings. Attendance was not required by our employer; it was just a bunch of people (mostly guys) who came into the office on…
Millions of people now work in fully or partly remote situations and it should be clear that we have arrived at a permanent shift in what ‘workplace’ means. But that suggests that workplace is simply the physical address at which you perform the duties of your job. The real definition is more complicated because our…
After centuries of working in an employer-sponsored workplace, many have started to settle into a new way of working. This includes a shift to at least partly remote work. Most of us experienced at least a temporary government-mandated stay at home order; some of us have chosen to continue it as we reach the three-year…
A few months ago, I had a client who was struggling to connect with her manager. This wasn’t a typical scenario of different work styles or communication challenges. This client was not having tough conversations with her manager; she was having no conversation at all. She began to notice on conference calls that she was…
We are now nearing the three-year anniversary of when the pandemic crept in, then quickly overtook, over lives. But we are also at least eighteen months since the rollout of vaccines that immensely lessened the risk of serious illness. In theory, we then began to resume our lives. But even as a good number of…