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Linked – Return to Office, Return to Sexual Harassment?
The article offers some suggestions on educating your employees about harassment and what you should be doing with programs, but I want to get brutally honest here.
What workplace hasn’t already held a sexual harassment seminar? Is it making any difference? Not when you tell me that remote work was the most effective way to lower incidences of harassment. Essentially, keeping people away from each other was the only way we found to significantly dent the overall statistics.
Want to know what would make a dent? Fire people. On the spot. Publicly. The first time it happens.
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Linked – Dell said return to the office or else—nearly half of workers chose “or else”
This should not surprise anyone.
I can think of a few reasons why this should not have surprised anyone at Dell.
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Linked – Mental Health Reminders in the Workplace.
Could you do something for me? The next time you try to schedule a thirty-minute meeting with someone and see a thirty-minute break between long stretches of committed time, leave that time for them. Find a different time, if possible. Or go even further and commit to finding a time not immediately before or after another meeting. Let people have a few minutes. It’s good for all of our mental health.
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Linked – It’s Not Nagging: Effective Communication is Deliberately Redundant
It’s not nagging to follow up a meeting with an email summarizing the discussion. It’s good meeting etiquette. It’s not nagging to drop a group chat in Slack or Teams for updates. That’s what those tools are for. It’s also not nagging to expect your team to report progress in many ways. That’s their responsibility.
