Transitioning to Hybrid Working
Transitioning to Hybrid Working is not about going back to normal. 2020 was the year the world went remote. Work from home became a daily norm. Two years later, we now see world economies easing into the new normal. However workplaces are anything but ‘back to normal’. Employers want to re-establish normality and employees want […]
The Focus in 2022 is on Wellbeing More Than Ever
AHRI Pulse Survey of 760 HR professionals across Australia in late 2021 revealed that the focus for 2022 is well and truly still on wellbeing. The majority of organisations are requiring vaccination for their staff and employees have responded positively. As part of ensuring health and safety in the workplace, six in ten of HR […]
What Psychological Safety Looks Like in a Hybrid Workplace
I love the work of Amy Edmonson. Her seminal research on psychological safety provided the framework for Google’s Project Aristotle, a now infamous case study on what makes teams effective. Google made psychological safety cool but Amy’s work had begun decades before. This article, published in HBR about a month ago links psychological safety to […]
We don’t want to go back to the office
I wanna do it my way Results from the latest workplace survey by PWC suggest that the majority of workers do not want to return to the office full-time. Ninety percent of Australians want to keep working from home, in some capacity. Are we really surprised that we don’t want to go back to the […]
Men want flexibility too
The Australian Financial Review this week had a fascinating article about flexible work and the preferences of men and fathers. We often think that flexible work is the purview of women who are mothers. However AFRs survey of 25 of Sydney’s biggest employers this week showed that 24 out of 25 said remote working was […]