Over the 12 years that I have spent as a bank officer, I experienced four major head office relocations. Each time the process resembled a construction site where each of us, from clerk to top management, worked hard for many months. No one was spared from logistical trouble, pre-and-after-relocation meet[...]

Although even before the current pandemic, burnout – a work-related condition that is caused mainly by the accumulation of physical and emotional stress – was a common problem for companies, both among early-stage employees and managers of powerful teams, the pandemic amplified the phenomenon by putting a[...]

Geographically unrestricted staff recruitment – a compromise best suited for exceptional circumstances or a wide, attractive opportunity for both parties?

Until recently, the labor market operated almost exclusively around a tacit agreement between players: employees were looking for jobs close to[...]

When the pandemic came, I never imagined what it would be like to not be able to leave to work in hubs or hostels. I loved to travel for little money, and Brasov and Bucharest offered me the opportunity to experience working in another city. Here I found people like me who don’t look weird when I ta[...]

If someone had asked me a few years ago what my ideal job would look like, I would have answered without hesitation that I would like it to be a mix of working from the office, from a coffee shop and from home. I wished space wasn’t an issue as long as I delivered on time and was productive, because[...]

Imagine that you’re deeply focused on a task, when the phone starts ringing, so you need to interrupt whatever you were doing. A colleague announces that he will send you an email in a few minutes or he asks for help in a minor issue. On the other line, someone else keeps calling. Meanwhile, a colla[...]

Almost all of us work from home and we get used to it. I’ve worked in several companies looking for the perfect company, but I still haven’t found it. The schedule was not great, the colleagues fought with each other, the work tasks were more difficult than promised, the changes were the order[...]

In addition to its social impact, the current crisis generated by the Covid-19 phenomenon has created numerous changes, especially related to finance and the economy. The business world has not been exempt either, while in the social distancing context “work from home” suddenly turned from a dream into a [...]

From the commercial worker to the university professor, from the civil servant to the corporate director, we have all spent a paradoxical pandemic year: while many external freedoms have been highly restricted, our inner changes and adaptation to a new working style have been accelerated.

Now that[...]