Category: Our Thoughts
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Was your office ever like ‘The Office’?
When it comes down to it, The Office and your office are probably a lot more similar than you realize. The original version of The Office was inspired in part by a reality-TV trend popular in the U.K. at the time, depicting regular people doing regular things. In casting both the British and the American version, a group of unknowns…
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Pandemic memories of work and home, true or false
The Pandemic was life changing and the tales we will tell just might not be what really happened. Our memories are but dramatic stories like a narrative in our brain. The youngest of us today will ask what it was like to live and work through a global Pandemic…but that version will begin the moment your brain acknowledged danger. The 1918 Pandemic killed 50+ million people and infected 1/3rd of the world’s population. When it was over, no-one talked about it. Future generations had little to go by. In September 2001, we knew little…
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Pandemic vocabulary happened, at home and in the office
Will the elbow bump replace the handshake at business meetings from now on? Who knew that zoom fatigue was a real ailment after too many WFH happy hours with co-workers? New language develops in times of social crisis. According to lexicographers from the Leibniz Institute for the study of German Languages, more than 1200 new words were formed, reflective…
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Decisions today set the tone for tomorrow…did work permanently leave the building?
Your office called and they want you back. Big tech was first to initiate work from home, perpetuating the idea that remote was here to stay…but those days are numbered. The corporate footprint will change, as some businesses will dump empty space, and others will expand in preparation of growth and distancing. Change makes sense when things go…
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Our Generation does not Define us
We are not forever defined by our birth generation, nor does our birth generation mandate the vaccine. A birth generation offers assumed personality traits that do not necessarily define us: the subset of a generation varies based on personal experience: regardless of shared experiences, humans differ in attitude, sociopolitical views, personalities, and personal circumstances. We are…
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Life skills: what we have learned by NOT going to school or into the office
Our skillsets have changed in the upside down. We have re-evaluated priorities and value a different kind of work life balance. Although some struggle to find that happy place, they might be facing issues: mental, physical anxiety; poor performance at school/home/work; unwarranted aches, pains, nightmares, lack of sleep; lost appetite, overeating; malaise, sadness, hostility; distancing…
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Legal Battles in the time of COVID-19
A new frontier of companies protecting their staff vs legal battles in the time of Covid-19: Litigation around Covid-19 continues. Workers claim sickness due to employer negligence, with the debate on whether a business is protected against legal action. By May 2020, The Washington Post published that nearly 800 lawsuits had been filed by prisons, claiming sickness…
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Would a survey in the workplace improve our understanding of mental health?
The US Census Bureau has been collecting data on differing types of personal experiences we have endured around the isolation of the global Pandemic. To best analyze real-time snapshots of anxiety, depression and delays in medical care, these surveys will seek feedback to questions around health issues, physical and mental wellbeing of an individual. Therefore,…
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Businesses have done awesome good deeds to make a difference in challenging times…have YOU?
Companies around the globe keep stepping up, making impressive contributions in products, services, donations and time. Have YOU found a way to make a difference in these most uncertain times through personal initiatives? Whether a random act of kindness, donations of food, or reaching out to a neighbor in isolation, sharing of your resources brings…
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Could a smart Space Manager ‘MacGyver’ an office?
What if the MacGyver of the 1980’s became an extremely resourceful secret agent turned CRE Space Cop in a post Pandemic world? We know many of MacGyver’s hacks do work in real life, provided you had the knowledge, items and tools. For example, MacGyver could patch a radiator with egg whites; lift fingerprints with soot…