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I don’t know, did we really need a study to show this? “The researchers ran a series of studies asking participants to plan for an important event or goal, like the meeting with their boss or launching their new company. In one study, they asked students to create a study plan for a final exam…
Linked: Succession planning isn’t only about executives
The importance of succession planning isn’t just about how do we replace our top executives, it’s also about how do we keep doing what we do when the person doing it isn’t here?
There are a lot of businesses dealing with employees who have resigned, who also have to figure out how they did what they did and how to train the next person to do it when no one ever wrote it down.
Write it down. Make it easy to find. Keep it updated. Because people leave.
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Linked – 32 Apps to Make You Effective and Efficient When Working Remotely
As a remote worker, I use quite a few of these, but not all. The ones I use all the time? Dropbox Evernote Zapier Pocket Buffer Wunderlist As well as a few tools not on this list of 32 Webex Google Drive Skype I may have to take a look at a couple of others…
Linked: Some workers can’t afford to RTO
As someone who has worked remotely since mid-2019, I have appreciated the number of ways my life is less expensive for a while.
That was before the recent bout of inflation, though. How much more am I saving by driving infrequently, not paying for parking or public transit, not needing to buy new business clothes, and eating the food I have in my house for lunch every day?
This was not insignificant in 2019 when I made the change. In 2022 that has to be much more than it was.
So, when you’re contemplating your return to the office strategy, are you calculating the pay cut you’re forcing on all of your employees, and how many of them can’t actually afford that?
