Developing the distributed workforce
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Tom Cheesewright on The longer the lockdown continues, the greater the acceleration in existing trends towards hybrid working and fully remote organisations
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It’s good to be lazy
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Tom Cheesewright on Laziness motivates us to find better ways to do things. Far from decrying ‘lazy’ home workers, we should be celebrating their instincts.
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Hybrid working seems like the natural route but it requires careful thought
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Tom Cheesewright on This month I have been working with the global communications company Poly on a report on the future of work and particularly, hybrid working.
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Robots don’t take jobs
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Tom Cheesewright on We will never understand the impact of automation until we differentiate jobs from work. Robots can do work but not jobs.
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The price of performance
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Tom Cheesewright on What price a permanent position on the stage of your own home office? How do we cope when our working success is measured by constant communication?
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Change: Separating plastic from elastic
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Tom Cheesewright on Engineers talk about elastic change that springs back, & plastic – permanent – change. When talking about the lockdown, people frequently confuse the two.
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How Coronavirus will change our lives
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Tom Cheesewright on The effects of coronavirus on life, work and culture will depend in many ways how long the pandemic persists. Will it be weeks or months?
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Future careers: tell your own story
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Tom Cheesewright on Future careers are different to those in the past, not just because of novel jobs but because of a fundamental change in the structure of our working lives
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Tomorrow’s worker is always performing, and that might not be healthy
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Tom Cheesewright on When you’re living on the edge, you’re always exposed. Tomorrow’s worker may always be performing and that may have a cost to their mental health.
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Future Job: Algorithm Archaeologist
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Tom Cheesewright on Algorithm archaeologists will help us dig through layers of complexity to understand the bias inherent in our systems and automated decisions
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The future of recruitment
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Tom Cheesewright on The future of recruitment will be defined by high frequency change and the response of our organisations to that challenge.
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Invent your own future job
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Tom Cheesewright on What do you want to be when you grow up? Hard to answer when 85% of jobs in 2030 may not have been invented yet. Maybe you can invent your own future job?
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