Use these tips to build a digital-first culture that drives innovation and accelerate business growth.| Slack
A step-by-step guide for aligning your organization behind a shared purpose and principles for flexible work.| Future Forum
About 10% of US employees now regularly work from home (WFH), but there are concerns this can lead to “shirking from home.” We report the results of a WFH experiment at CTrip, a 16,000- employee, NASDAQ-listed Chinese travel agency. Call center employees who volunteered to WFH were randomly assigned to work from home or in the office for 9 months. Home working led to a 13% performance increase, of which about 9% was from working more minutes per shift (fewer breaks and sick-days) and 4% f...| Stanford Graduate School of Business
Slack’s co-founder and CTO weighs in on why—even when it’s safe to return to the office—there’s no going back to business as usual| Slack
Many executives feel overwhelmed by meetings, and no wonder: On average, they spend nearly 23 hours a week in them, up from less than 10 hours in the 1960s. What’s more, the meetings are often poorly timed, badly run, or both. We can all joke about how painful they are, say the authors, but that pain has real consequences for teams and organizations. Every minute spent in a wasteful meeting eats into solo work that’s essential for creativity and efficiency. Chopped-up schedules interrupt ...| Harvard Business Review
The way we work has changed. The era of toiling nine-to-five, five-days-a-week in the office is being replaced by a better way — flexible work. But flexibility means a lot more than a day or two a week to “work from home” — 93% of your employees want more flexibility in when, not just where,| Future Forum