A return to in-person work can cause anxiety for introverted employees, but those who are willing to seek support and tell their managers what they need can navigate this transition.
Employees feel disconnected from work because they lack purpose, they feel lonely and they don't believe their manager cares about them, write Michael Lee Stallard and Katharine P. Stallard. They offer three tactics for demonstrating this care and improving the overall culture, including establishing a formal mentoring program.
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Corporate demand for office space is nearly unchanged from before the pandemic even as office attendance is slow to rebound, suggesting that the future of white-collar work is less five-day workweeks and more a clash of varying work schedules, styles and needs, Derek Thompson argues. "When the office stops being the nucleus of work, there will still be problems -- just different ones," Thompson writes.
Major banks in the Charlotte, N.C. area have been hiring waves of new employees, from branch workers to technology specialists. The Charlotte area, which ranks third in the country for concentration of financial services jobs, is expected to see the sector's headcount increase by 11% by 2025, according to the Charlotte Regional Business Alliance.
Meetings can run over because someone is talking too much, which can be addressed by setting firm time limits before the meeting or by referring back to the agenda. Offering the person the chance to follow up by email, chat or during the next meeting "allows you to keep the meeting on time without preventing the person who's speaking from sharing their full idea," says communication trainer Ashira Prossack.
If a journey through the Andes is on your bucket list, you will love this story about the Guitar Route. For more than two centuries, a remote road in the Ecuadorian Andes has been home to some of the finest guitar-makers in the world. These luthiers are so skilled that not only do they make world-class guitars, charangos, ukuleles and cuatros out of local cherry wood, walnut and cedar, they also make instruments out of armadillo shells!
