The Post-Covid World of Work
Will the workplace finally change?
The current workplace, at best, is tolerable. When we have approximately ⅓ of the population engaged in their work, I would say this is a problem. COVID did not greatly impact the numbers. The highest point for engagement was 40% in the summer of 2020 (during Covid). The pre-Covid number was around 34% engagement.
So, what’s going on? Is it the way we are working in the 21st Century? Since July 2020, I have been thinking more about humanocracy, words, the workplace, why leaders are still Taylorists (1911), people feeling disconnected, change, relational v. transactional people, co-creating work, and more…
Photo: N Harris | El Camino de Santiago
What type of workplace do you want?
Ideas for Change: Engaging and co-creating over disempowering and resisting
I was thinking the other night about change. When I think about change, I think of the French word, “imposé.” Imposé means imposition. After a conversation with my former French colleagues, I noticed a nuance. My understanding is you are imposed upon by someone else – it is done “to” you (I have a friend…
Change
Is it true? People hate change?
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them – that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
~ Lao Tzu