Yesterday’s article about the brewing further crisis we may be facing if we keep ignoring the major “to do” of having to process what we have been through over the pandemic has gotten a lot of reactions. I am very grateful to all the people who have sent messages sharing honestly and frankly. For how…Read More

As promised last week I am picking up the “state of us post pandemic” once again because we are nowhere better and it’s now officially “a few years down the line”. Beware this will be an up-in-arms article in the vein of the “Nobody’s OK FFS” ones of a few weeks ago and that’s because…Read More

As I’m sure you noticed *insert self-deprecating eye roll* there was no article last week and that’s because I was on a rare no-device vacation. Was it the restorative break I was hoping for? Perhaps not, I seem to have suffered from the same affliction I hear is widespread these days – the insufficiency of…Read More

The article I wrote yesterday was designed to give us a different perspective. We collectively spend entirely too much time wondering whose fault it is. In this case – whose job is it to admit being responsible for the HumanDebt and fix it. And the easy answer is HR. This is why it was worth exploring…Read More

Before anything else let me start by saying that you won’t “hear me” moan about the term “HR” here. We don’t need me to repeat it, obviously referring to humans as “resources” is insanely bad but here we are and the polemics on the term won’t move us further and movement is what we all…Read More

Today’s newsletter is sponsored by Workplace from Meta, where culture and technology come together to create a more productive future of work. Check out www.workplace.com/future to learn more. —————————————————————————————– Here’s one you may not have thought of – what software tools we use on the daily is not only part of our work culture, but is also…Read More

We all want to succeed and we all want to do our best work. We all also want to have the people who choose to share their skills with us and do a job for us to be happy, we do. We may not actually do anything about making that happen but in principle, of…Read More

Ready for the new wave of burnout effects? Ready for the “Even Greater Resignation” or “Great Resignation 2.0” or whatever else “catchy” title the papers will give it? No, no one is, but they’re both coming. As is a wave of “I deserve better” generalised self-respecting attitude of the workers that refuse to be the…Read More

I see people spending time turning their thoughts into quotes complete with photos of themselves looking pensively into the distance and I sometimes cringe on their behalf. A step above liking and retweeting your own tweet, while we all can teach others many things, isn’t it awfully presumptuous to believe you have just the thing…Read More

What’s the hold-up? Why do we talk so much about Psychological Safety and solid happy teams and we do so little? Well, if you imagine an axis starting from “just concept” and ending up with “execution (aka sustained and habitual human work at the team level with a focus on Psychological Safety that translates into…Read More