David Plans, Contributor

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Employee Wellbeing 2021: Roll Up Your Virtual Shirtsleeves

As multiple reports have shown, there’s a global talent shortage that could cost the world’s economies about $8.5 trillion in unrealized annual revenue. The only way to close it is to address remote working and mental health, and to include previously …

Bullying: Never Ok, Never Worse Than Now

The fact that a known bully, whose staff have quit in droves, is now being seemingly forgiven by the Prime Minister with the rather vacuous statement that Mr Johnson was “reassured that the home secretary is sorry for inadvertently upsetting those with…

Pandora’s Box: How Much Monitoring Is Too Much Monitoring?

We see increasing availability from personal data from digital devices…especially from places considered inaccessible previously such as in the home or from your body.

Workplace Culture: Let’s Take This Opportunity To Make Lasting Changes

There has never, in recent memory, been a more meaningful opportunity to address workplace inequalities. To examine why we pretend that men pretending to be ‘ok’ is ok at all. To re-examine gender stereotypes at work and home. To redesign our well-bein…

Watercoolers: Can We Replace Random Daily Contact?

How do we replace the daily contact we used to have with people in our offices, those glass palaces we used to spend so much time in? Do we not need the trivial, casual interactions of the water cooler, the office kitchen, the elevator?

Kryptonite: Five Ways You’re Different Than Super(wo)man.

Underneath your work clothes, there is no Super Suit, just soft gooey flesh.

Workplace Mental Health: Where To From Here?

Waking up after a long flight to Hong Kong and a tedious but surprisingly painless border crossing, one might be surprised to see that all the windows in buildings around the hotel are caged.