If you’re feeling overworked, burned out, and overall disengaged, we have a solution for you to make your booboo all better. The Ice Cream Man! Remember when you were a kid and you could hear the Ice Cream truck coming? You’d run inside frantically looking for loose change – or if you were lucky, you’d [...]
Archive for the ‘Technical change’ Category
The No Jive 5
NEWS FLASH! Not everyone gets ROWE, believes in ROWE, or even wants ROWE. TLNT recently featured “5 Good Reasons Why ROWE Hasn’t Quite Caught On Yet” by Lance Haun. Lance “loves the idea,” but does not believe ROWE is a “revolution.” Let’s take a gander at these 5 “good” reasons… 1) It doesn’t work everywhere [...]
Health and the Traditional Workplace
We originally saw this piece linking longer hours and bad health in the Miami Herald and have since had it sent to us so many times we had to comment. We will avoid the “duh!” prompted by the story’s open: Two-thirds of the U.S. workforce is working longer hours and is overweight. Is there a [...]
The "New" Nine-to-Five
Forbes.com recently ran a story about formerly always-on, go-go-go executives who are embracing traditional work hours as they seek greater productivity and better work-life balance. Here’s the opening story: Susan Wilson Solovic likes her sleep and her time off. But it wasn’t long ago that the hour between 2 and 3 a.m. was her prime [...]
Congestion Fees, Telecommuting and You
We’ve been following the saga of New York City’s “congestion fee” plan, an $8 fee that would apply to the nearly 1 million cars that enter Manhattan everyday. As we noted in a previous post, this kind of solution, while well-meaning, can only have a limited impact on the problem of overcrowded streets. That’s why [...]
Managing the Virtual Workforce Part 2:
Exercise Your Technology Savvy
Presented by Jody Thompson
February 23 at 1pm (EST)
