How do you stay focused when you’re working from home? This is like asking how do you work alone without losing your mind. The latter comes from a book titled “Solo: How to Work Alone (and Not Lose Your Mind)” by Rebecca Seal. Like many people...
What do you miss the most about working in an office? Employees say that the pandemic has made them miss office chitchats around the water cooler. If you really think about it, many have taken to having those clandestine talks online -- on messenger apps...
What time is it in __? These days, remote teams have to keep in mind that they may be working across different time zones like many Silicon Valley companies. It’s not new for tech giants to have daily interactions (i.e., scrum) with their teams worldwide....
Many people, especially young ones, have grown more aware of climate change in the past few years. It behooves global mobility professionals to watch out how their next recruits will be more conscious of companies they work for, if they are champions of reducing carbon...
How do you like to work? It turns out that remote work has allowed for flexibility and more time for workers to care for their loved ones. That’s enough in some cases to refrain from relocating elsewhere. In Gitlab’s comprehensive report on remote work across various...
Global mobility professionals, recruiters and employers can learn a lot about how to measure their own progress when it comes to hiring diverse professionals from Deloitte, which recently published a guide for fiscal year 2020. Its workforce strategy on diversity and equity in the company generated...
The countless articles about people moving out of San Francisco always leave something out: those who move into the city. In a 2019-2020 report by the California Department of Finance (CDOF), the state’s population increased by over 20,000 people. San Francisco ranks 12th in the...
It wasn’t so long ago when going to work was also work in itself. One dresses up and takes the car or mass transit to report to work, but nowadays, people may not notice that they’re not that in a hurry anymore, at least in...
A few months ago, the buzzword was work from home, if not remote work. Today, it's a distributed workforce model -- or a blended work model. While everyone is not on board with this approach since COVID-19 still poses a serious threat, some are willing to...
Travel humorist Bill Bryson once said that Americans crave space more than anyone else in the world, so the question now is how do you feel about returning to the office and being arm’s length with your colleagues for eight hours in a day? It’s a...