by Christian Herbst | Apr 5, 2022 | New Ways of Working, Parents at Work
Researchers from Northwestern University published a study that shows that the Covid-19 pandemic has a great impact on gender equality both during and after the downtime. They state that usually “regular” recessions affect mainly men’s employment, since male-dominated...
by Christian Herbst | Apr 5, 2022 | New Ways of Working
Employees around the world are in need of policies that support mental and emotional health amid the pandemic. Remote work increased the working hours worldwide and people are closer to burnouts than ever before. As a response, several companies have introduced extra...
by Christian Herbst | Apr 1, 2022 | Project Management
This approach from project management was implemented as a technique to scale individual Scrum teams at company level. In this approach, each product line has its own Scrum of Scrums, and some products may even contain multiple Scrums of Scrums. The Scrum of Scrums...
by Christian Herbst | Apr 1, 2022 | New Ways of Working
It is well-documented that similarity breeds connection. Candidates who look, act and sound different to recruiters are at an immediate disadvantage. This kind of decision-making can cut qualified candidates out of the running. Hiring involves more than just...
by Christian Herbst | Mar 29, 2022 | Parents at Work
For years, parents have been calling for more autonomy to decide where and when they work. Parents want to construct their working week around opportunities to care for their children. When people were sent home to do their jobs in March 2020 many of those requests...
by Christian Herbst | Mar 29, 2022 | New Ways of Working
In A survey from the US’s Society for Human Resource Management half of the respondents admitted that they have fancied a colleague at work at some point in time. And three quarters of the correspondents said that they were fine with colleagues dating each other....
by Christian Herbst | Mar 25, 2022 | New Ways of Working
During the pandemic remote work became normality. Fewer than 30% of knowledge workers around the world are working from the office every day. This means that many employees are interacting with far fewer co-workers during the day than they used to at their desks...
by Christian Herbst | Mar 25, 2022 | New Ways of Working
Generation Z includes people born between 1997 and 2012. This generation will soon be more numerous than the Millennials and they have a radically different perspective on careers and how they define success in life and in the workplace. In a survey given a choice of...
by Christian Herbst | Mar 18, 2022 | New Ways of Working, Parents at Work
Time to spend with the family, time for yourself, time to work, time for household chores – it can be very challenging finding time for everything that needs to be done and everything you would like to do. Especially parents will always point their biggest complaint...
