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Linked: Returning to the office in 2021 will introduce a tricky new power dynamic
ByMike McBride December 29, 2020December 29, 2020 Reading Time: 2 minutes

I was having a discussion on Twitter about this recently, that there are people who want to go back to the office, and there are those, like me, who worked remotely before the pandemic and have no interest in ever working in an office. Figuring out how to account for all of the possible preferences will be key attracting top talent, in my humble opinion. But, how many places will be successful at doing that? This article asks a similar question:

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Linked: Male bosses regard employee depression more negatively
ByMike McBride December 23, 2020December 23, 2020 Reading Time: 2 minutes

Isn’t it just possible that all those years of telling men to get over it, and quit complaining about their depression, has long-reaching effects across all of society, effects that can bite us all back when those same men are in a position of power? Maybe we want to think about coming up with a better way to help men of all ages deal with depression, so that they don’t grow up to have zero compassion for those who aren’t able to just “man up”?

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Linked: Should I tell colleagues about my mental health problem?
ByMike McBride December 16, 2020December 14, 2020 Reading Time: 2 minutes

That’s the damage of stigma. People who need a little support, a listening ear, a proverbially shoulder to cry on, don’t get it for fear of being judged.

And then, things escalate and just get worse, until they are forced to leave their profession.

Why should this be the case when we are all dealing with a pandemic and having struggles? Why do we still judge people who actually talk about it?

Nothing will change until we can eliminate the stigma that causes so many to not even talk about their struggles.

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Linked: Work invading your private life? EU politicians want to give employees a right to disconnect
ByMike McBride December 15, 2020December 14, 2020 Reading Time: 1 minute

I suspect the fact that someone in the EU felt a need to suggest this as a law says some really bad things about workplace culture. I wish I could honestly not say the same, if not worse, about US workplace culture, but let’s be honest, will we eventually need something like this too? “The…

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Quick Thought – What Does Your Organization Celebrate?
ByMike McBride December 14, 2020December 13, 2020 Reading Time: 1 minute

Recently I was logged in to a webinar and one of the presenters starting talking about his company’s long history of going above and beyond. Things like driving all night with hardware in the trunk of their car, or the countless all-nighters people have pulled to write scripts or deal with ridiculous deadlines and tough…

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Pew Research on Working During COVID19
ByMike McBride December 11, 2020December 10, 2020 Reading Time: 4 minutes

Lots of interesting stuff in this article about what Pew has found when it comes to how we are working now, and what it might look like in the future. How the Coronavirus Outbreak Has – and Hasn’t – Changed the Way Americans Work Obviously, there’s a lot of information about remote working. Generally, they…

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