Month: December 2020

Manage your energy, not your time (part 1)

This title of a HBR article from 2000 seems again very relevant as we are experiencing a massive shift from office to the home office (Schwartz & McCarthy, February 2000). Schwartz et al. argue that organisations are often pushing employees too hard to increase productivity, ignoring people’s need to replenish their physical, emotional, mental, and…

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Working from anywhere: lessons learnt in 2020

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The cover article of the November/December issue of Harvard Business Review features a comprehensive article (by Prithwiraj Choudhury) on remote working, and it inspired me to take a look at the remarkable shift that has taken place during 2020. Choudhury has spent 5 years studying practices of WFA organizations. Literal quotes from his article are shown in…

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