Remote work is a learned skill

https://www.alexandrasamuel.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Lavin-June-2021-3000kbs.mp4   Nobody is born knowing how to work remotely. That’s exactly why we need to invest time and energy in learning how to make the most of our days at home—a skill that will...

Remote work: A conversation

What does it take to succeed in the hybrid workplace? I’m delighted to join my friends at the Lavin Agency for an Author’s Corner conversation with Charles Yao, Lavin’s Director of Intellectual Talent. Our conversation will take place online at 9 am...

How Working From Home Has Changed Employees

Today in The Wall Street Journal, I offer an expert-driven roadmap to managing employees who’ve been changed by the experience of remote work. As I write in today’s story, They have spent over a year adjusting to a radically different rhythm—both in terms...

How to Protect Your Privacy When Working From Home

Today in the Wall Street Journal, I look at How to Protect Your Privacy When Working From Home: There is, for instance, the loss of privacy when your colleagues overhear you arguing with your children, or see what you read on the bookshelves behind you. Or the loss of...

What The World’s Most Influential CMOs taught me about remote work

Every year, my experience of remote work changes dramatically from winter to spring. In the fall and winter, I lead a relatively independent existence as a freelance tech writer and researcher. That pace changes when it comes time to rejoin the team at Sprinklr, where...

Remote Work Isn’t Going Away. So Let’s Deal With the Obstacles.

It’s hard to figure out work-life balance when work and life happen in the same place. It’s hard to stay focused on that client document, that PowerPoint deck or even that expense report when you can see your child getting paint all over the coffee table, hear your...

Today in the WSJ: Collegiality during Covid

How can you support your colleagues during the most challenging work year most of us have ever known? That’s what I tackle in today’s Wall Street Journal, writing about How to Be a Good Colleague During the Coronavirus Crisis. As I argue in the piece, Even...