Here are some articles and news about what is happening in the workplace that I found more interesting and relevant to you. I hope you enjoyed:
Microsoft Special Report: The Work Trend Index, which was published in September. It’s all about productivity. While 87% of employees believe they are more productive remotely or with a mix of in-office and remote work, only 12% of leaders agree, and 85% of leaders believe the shift to hybrid work has made it challenging to have confidence that employees are being productive.
MIT: What Outperformers Do Differently to Tap Internal Talent: Research shows that lateral mobility offers a win-win for employee satisfaction and employer performance.
Harvard Business Review: Meeting Overload Is a Fixable Problem: The authors of this piece have been studying how organizations can make the right things easier. In every workplace they’ve studied, they find out how to reduce that friction by “repairing” meetings. They used what they learned to create a step-by-step guide to help managers identify, eliminate, and repair broken meetings.
World Economic Forum: Busting global myths on hybrid work: here's how flexibility can help companies and employees thrive. The debate around hybrid work continues to create much discussion, with detractors voicing concerns about the negative impact on productivity.
Women in Workplace Report 2022, a collaboration between Leanin.Org and McKinsey. The headline finding “Women leaders are switching jobs at the highest rates we’ve ever seen—and at higher rates than men in leadership. That could have serious implications for companies.”
Organization View: The most important analysis you can do with employee pulse surveys: Here, Andrew Marritt presents a powerful example of treating the open text comments in regular pulse surveys as panel data to analyze how individuals’ perceptions change over time.