Cafeterias, Bars and Innovation
More and more people want to work from home. This saves them time and may even allow them to produce more work. But, increasingly, it appears innovation may suffer.
Choosing How to Work: The Horse Race That’s No Longer a Horse Race
In the competition for where people will work in the future, one arrangement is clearly winning: hybrid work. Is this a good thing for employees? For employers? What the data shows about hybrid work, and where we may be going in the future.
Back to Work Around the World
Pandemic, schmandemic. Workfromhome, schmurkfromhome. The US work world may have changed forever during COVID-19, but in places across the world, it’s back to the office, business almost as usual.
The Showdown at the Virtual Office Corral
The office building has been a staple of American worklife for decades. The pandemic changed that. Now the bills are coming due. Something’s gotta give.
The Power of Singles Hitters in a Homerun Culture
You can win a lot more games quietly swinging for singles than you can just going for homers.
Want Your AC Fixed? Good Luck.
We don’t have nearly enough people to build, rebuild or fix our homes, hospitals and businesses. The shortage is one we created. It’s time to get serious about fixing it.
Choosing a Career: Talent or Passion?
A trip to Broadway forces some thinking about the criteria we use to choose our careers.
Not Enough Workers? Part 3: How the Washingtons Could Lead the Way
The work fortunes of men and women are going in different directions. What policy makers can learn from Washington…and Washington.
Not Enough Workers? Part 2: More Places to Find Them
Finding employees these days is like a tricky game of Where’s Waldo? The worker shortage gives employers an opportunity — and a cattle prod — to think differently about hiring historically marginalized groups.
Not Enough Workers? Part 1: Look to Prisons
Former prisoners can be a key part of the solution in a time of short labor supply.