For most people, the holiday season is a period to recharge, rest, and reflect on the past 12 months and the coming year. Unfortunately, this isn’t the same for most employees. More than 80% of employees admit to experiencing high stress during the holiday season. Several workplace and non-workplace factors contribute to the heightened stress among employees.
Moving up into management can be both adventurous and overwhelming. Due to the enormous complexity involved with supervising an operation, it’s common for new managers to fall into traps that slow down business development. Here are seven of these common mistakes and how to prevail through effective leadership.
Contrary to what many people believed before 2020, the future of working environments doesn’t involve reporting to a 9 – 5 corporate office Monday to Friday. Working from home fully today also sounds so 2020. The current trend is a hybrid working environment supported by the increasing adoption of coworking spaces.
Remote and hybrid work continued to grow in 2022, since it’s a good idea for cost-cutting. Thanks to cloud computing, remote work has contributed to business continuity through the pandemic. Here are developing trends that will impact the workplace in 2023.
Successful business depends on strong leadership and workplace improvement. Management must aim for streamlining approaches to make the operation as efficient as possible. Without regular tracking of employee performance, a business can fall behind on its goals. Here’s why it pays off to make workplace efficiency a central theme.
The pandemic caused many businesses to shift to work at home operations. As shutdown mandates end a good percentage of firms continue to use the work at home model while some have moved toward a hybrid model combining home and office activities. Here’s a look at how to boost worker productivity for home, office or hybrid business models.
Even before Marissa Mayer put an end to remote working at Yahoo!, many executives were beginning to question its value. The idea that remote working can reduce overhead costs, such as rent for space requirements and utility bills, is true for companies with cubicle spaces and a 9 to 5 work schedule, but it’s not the whole story.
Our working lives have undergone drastic changes in the past 50 years or so. Our grandparents and parents found used to find jobs right after graduating from school, and then often stayed in that job until they retired. Today, the working generation – largely millennials – are more likely to move on to a new company every few years.
It’s the time to say goodbye to traditional offices and work spaces.
