Guided by free will or forced by circumstances, we have all seen during recent years mass changes in how we define value. Whether this starts for purely economic reasons or from personal awareness that make us set our priorities differently, today we weigh more carefully a job offer beyond salary, bonuses[...]

From one month to another, remote work undeniably gains ground in these new times. As we learn to consider remote work a normality, leaders have to find creative solutions to a new type of need: that of providing their teams with sufficient in person interactions. Regular face to face meetings, in large o[...]

No matter how much we love our work, we have to admit that we often dream about the next summer holidays – an oasis of freedom and total detachment. On average, we’re talking about two blessed weeks per employee. Automatically, we come to an uncomfortable question: what about before and after? How do we k[...]

When I signed my first employment contracts, stress resistance and willingness to work long hours were explicitly required. At interviews, I was being told that my working schedule is flexible, as long as it was not too different from the team’s or the client’s. So generally, work still took p[...]

It’s already been a while since Mark Zuckerberg famously announced that half the workforce at Facebook will work remotely in the next 10 years. A lesser known and at the same time less popular aspect of that announcement, is that in return for that “privilege” employees will accept a lower salary.

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Managers frequently look for different methods to improve employee productivity (including their own). However, most of the time, this concern does not go beyond the training offered by the HR manager. Working in complex organizations involves establishing human relationships, and sometimes they make the [...]

A brief survey among your friends with different professions will help you see from a broad perspective a phenomenon that we are going through right now: in terms of remote work, we are already at a different stage from what has happened in the pandemic.

Organizations everywhere ar[...]

One in 10 Romanian employees considers conflicts with colleagues or bosses very stressful.

It’s the conclusion of a study conducted by 4Service Group Romania, a market research company. Even if the results were reported in 2019, things have not changed so much since then.

Health at work is [...]

Striving for success, we often become blinded by quantifiable results and arbitrary performance indicators, driven by ambition and competitive spirit. Everywhere around we see organizations ardently fighting to reach the top, ultimately failing to respect their own manifesto, not because they did [...]