In the news | Harvard Business Review
What a Year of WFH Has Done to Our Relationships at Work
More than a year into the Covid-19 pandemic and WFH, new research from Microsoft shows that employees and teams are becoming much more siloed. In particular, connections with people outside our immediate teams has shrunk dramatically, leading to fewer places…
In the news | The Seattle Times
‘Steps to the toilet and coffee machine’: Are we working from home, or living at work?
With the pandemic maybe now ebbing, the talk of the town for those of us who were lucky enough not to be on the front lines is about going back to work. Or not. “Most remote employees don’t want to…
Specific suggestions to promote communication and asking for help, and help new hires connect with the team and get started on work.
Our position is that thoughtless collaboration will always be poor collaboration no matter how good or bad the technology is. This guide to better remote meetings draws principles from the Collaboration and Meetings section of The New Future of Work…
Five suggestions for individuals and teams for making working from home work better.
In the news | The Tällberg Foundation
Welcome to the Brave New (digital) World
In this episode of "New Thinking for a New World" we explore living online with a woman whose job it is to make the experience as productive and pleasant as possible. Jaime Teevan is Microsoft’s Chief Scientist for Experiences and…
How research can enable more effective remote work
| Jaime Teevan and Brent Hecht
Due to recent events, millions of office workers have needed to rapidly adjust to working from home—learning new collaboration tools and best practices, re-thinking how to stay connected with colleagues outside the office, and adapting to new social norms around…