Hybrid Working – Heaven or Hell?
We’ve heard so much lately about the benefits of remote or hybrid working. How it improves work-life balance because it saves on all those hours wasted commuting. Over lockdown, some believed they’d woken up [...]
Hybrid working, the new frontier.
The pandemic changed work forever. ‘Work’ is no longer a place we go. It’s a thing we do. Our attitude to work-life balance has been fundamentally changed by the pandemic. Hybrid work has become a [...]
Finding Stability in a Constantly Changing World
The ongoing global pandemic stopping the whole world in its tracks, headlines of climate disasters, political crises or the ongoing threat of cyber attacks – is shaking up the most stable part of our minds. In a world of constant change, is being completely stable a myth? Then again, what exactly is being stable? However, we can focus on things we can affect to thrive in an environment defined by constant transformation. Including fostering resilience on an individual, communal and organisational level.
Home Office: Tilting at the loom? – Part 3
Agility and the home office - are these the ‘new normal’ of Level 2 life? And is it a tilt or a re-levelling of the workplace playing field? Nigel Young explores these themes in a 4 [...]
Home Office: Tilting – or cheating? – Part 4
Agility and the home office - are these the ‘new normal’ of Level 2 life? And is it a tilt or a re-levelling of the workplace playing field? Nigel Young explores these themes in a [...]
Home Office: The New Normal? – Part 2
Agility and the home office - are these the ‘new normal’ of Level 2 life? And is it a tilt or a re-levelling of the workplace playing field? Nigel Young explores these themes in a 4 [...]
Home Office: The New Normal – Part 1?
Do we look at the future in spite of the past, or because of the past? While this is the domain of philosophers, the reality of a virus that sentences us to a national lock-down, isn’t.
Gen-Z Workers may be getting lonely working from home, here are some ideas to help.
Loneliness leads to isolation, which then leads to burnout and disengagement on the job. Feeling isolated at work can be the difference between loving your job and dreading the thought of Monday morning. According [...]
Practical Solutions To Existing Workplace Environments To Nurture Health And Wellness
The average New Zealander currently spends about 43.3 hours at their job each week. For everyday workers, there isn’t much time left to focus on physical and mental wellbeing. Not surprisingly, the solution one arrives at is that the workplace needs to become an atmosphere whereby health and wellbeing are nurtured.
Likelihoods, Predictions & What-Ifs
But, when it comes to the world of work, businesses of all shapes and sizes have good reason to want to pin down likelihoods. Office space doesn’t come cheap, and today’s leases are long – so much can be lost by making an investment wrong-turn. There do need to be some fairly stable indicators of how the world of work will look five, ten, fifteen, twenty or more years, for any progress to occur, but what are they?