Category: Column

Mar 26
From Workplace to Workspace: Managing the Extended Workforce

“It’s the end of work as we know it. In the future, organizations’ competitive success will hinge on a highly unlikely suspect: workers who aren’t employees at all.” This is quite the provocative lede, taken from Accenture’s report, The Rise of the Extended Workforce, which they define as follows: To compete in the future, organizations […]

Mar 10
NSFW: Thank You for Your Divided Attention

(The following is an excerpt from Charles Epstein’s monthly NSFW column that appears in WorldatWork’s Workspan and #evolve publications.) As a work-at-home veteran I’m often asked by home office newbies how I avoid all the distractions. Studies have shown that the pandemic has caused spikes in presenteeism, which is when your body is present and […]