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As companies reopen their offices, they are deciding how the virtual work arrangements they’ve relied on during the pandemic will factor into their long-term plans or not.
Google’s “flexible workweek” calls for employees to spend at least three days a week in the office and the rest at home. Microsoft’s “hybrid workplace” means most employees can spend up to half their time working remotely. Ford Motor’s “flexible hybrid work model” leaves it up to workers and their managers to decide how much time they need to spend in the office.
Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase don’t have names for their postpandemic policies, because they expect most employees to return to the office for most of the time. Goldman’s C.E.O., David Solomon, called working from home an “aberration,” and JPMorgan’s chief, Jamie Dimon, said it had “serious weaknesses.”
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My Entrepreneurial Journey Part 8: Purpose vs Resistance Former CEO and new business owner Claire Powell on how setting clear intentions makes it easier to focus on goals.
My current mantra is focus and simplify, focus and simplify. I am working hard to stay focused on the most important actions that will help my business be successful and to eliminate all unnecessary complexity and distractions. To make my business healthy and sustainable I need to focus on three simple metrics: number of customers, frequency of orders, and average order value. If I grow each of those even a small amount, they compound each other and my top line will grow. If I can do that affordably, then I can impact my bottom line too. It sounds so simple, but yet I find it very difficult. I suppose it falls under the “simple but not easy” category.
You can become more time smart by changing one small habit at a time, says author
Even though North Americans have more leisure time than ever, many of us feel chronically time-crunched, focusing on work at the expense of meaningful leisure time with others. Behavioural scientist Ashley Whillans studies the relationship between time, money, and happiness. In her new book, she explains how we can avoid the time traps that lead to overwork, and lack of free time.
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Behavioural scientist Ashley Whillans says our technology use and obsession with work has made us time poor
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Sleep, purpose and a daily mind training practice are significant contributors to focus and productivity.
NEW YORK, April 13, 2021 /PRNewswire/ People report that their minds wander at work 37% of the time, and stress increases mind-wandering by 2-3 times, according to
The Mind at Work study by Potential Project, a global research, leadership development and consulting firm. By Friday, people who feel stressed report that their minds wander for nearly 60% of the workday.
The Mind at Work study polled people in 44 countries across 15 industries to assemble 225,000 data observations on employee focus, resilience and engagement. It found that unfocused employees and absent-minded leaders cost the U.S. economy alone nearly $30 billion annually.
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