“A 2022 study by work management platform Asana found that 70% of the more than 10,000 knowledge workers it surveyed across seven countries had experienced burnout or imposter syndrome in the past year.” Blimey, that strikes me as a super big deal, right? Crisis-level-big-deal I would say!  How are we this blasé about it?!? I’ll…Read More

We’re a distributed fully remote international business at PeopleNotTech but even so, many of us are in the United Kingdom so yesterday we decided to let people choose if they wanted to avail themselves of the bank holiday and honour their Queen’s memory by reminiscing or watching the majestic televised display of affection or not, and…Read More

As we warned yesterday, we are fighting on behalf of the teams that have mercifully overcome their resistance, biases and fears and have started regularly engaging in the human work – we believe they deserve unequivocal recognition and payment for doing so. This is the beginning of a heavy exploration to understand what it would…Read More

For those of you who read both newsletters this won’t come as a surprise – we at PeopleNotTech are openly embarking on a new “crusade” if you will – that of getting employees to be appreciated and rewarded for the human work. The “Pay them for it” campaign.  What is it you ask? It is…Read More

We have to be honest – we know we have asked for a lot. We spent the last few years saying to you: “We have oodles of HumanDebt™and the only way to clear -or at least make a dent in it-, is to distribute it to the team level and let you do masses of…Read More

We have to enter a continuous development mindset. As Gustavo Razzetti of Fearless Culture puts it “When it comes to culture, strive for evolution not revolution”. We have to comprehend that the human work is eminently necessary and that it will never be done. Neither of these points is an easy pill to swallow and…Read More

Anyone who hasn’t lived under a proverbial rock has seen the many discussions regarding “quiet quitting” over the past few weeks. I wrote about it as well in our Chasing Psychological Safety newsletter.  I put it to us that there’s no quiet quitting in technology. Or not as much as everywhere else. Let me explain. …Read More

Like we said yesterday, “quiet quitting” is most certainly not news and over the years it had many a names – “coasting”, “doing the bare minimum” or “inner resignation” but they all amount to the same thing – “disengagement”and its more insidiously disastrous cousin of “active disengagement” – we genuinely do not need a new…Read More

For crying out loud can we stop inventing new terms, running in the direction of the next new shiny thing and instead focus on what matters: helping people do the human work so that their lives get better at work? Can we please just hanker down on the work and land the wins of the…Read More

There’s a lot we don’t talk about in the business world. A lot of silences, a lot of impostor syndrome at play and a heap load of impression management from everyone’s side at all times. We say a lot we may not truly mean and we bite our tongue and remain silent about far too…Read More