Within my Top 3 quotes of the year (It's only February!), this one by @JohnAmaechi:

"Many people hate change because they see change as violence against the status quo and they react to change as if it is violence against them"

Watch this short video clip (Under 2 min.) 👉🏻 https://www.linkedin.com/posts/amaechi_leaked-audio-has-surfaced-of-jp-morgans-ugcPost-7296138280809431040-3qTS/ for additional context as to where it comes from. Totally worth it!

Extremely helpful for next RTO Mandate vs. #RemoteWork / #HybridWork / #DistributedWork / #FlexibleWork conversation you may have👌🏻😎

Does anyone have management-ready resources that convincingly demonstrate the value of Atlassian Confluence to someone thinking of MS365 alone as being "sufficient" for distributed content collaboration?

#Confluence #DistributedWork #M365 #contentcollaboration

“Why are we holding onto systems that waste our time, harm the planet, and no longer serve us?

#DistributedWork offers a way out.”

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/dave-cairns-5644a233_commuting-to-work-isnt-human-its-a-activity-7269017009961537538-n7mg?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios

A concise and helpful glossary by Atlassian on terms related to distributed work: https://www.atlassian.com/blog/distributed-work/distributed-work-glossary. It differentiates well between terms like “remote work” and “distributed work”. Also includes terms I don’t regularly use, such as “Intentional togetherness”. #DistributedWork

‘The study found that people who work remotely four or more days a week can reduce their carbon footprint by up to 54 percent’ 🤯👉🏻 https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/working-remotely-can-more-than-halve-an-office-employees-carbon-footprint/

After reading that mind-blowing article, one can only wonder: why aren't we all, knowledge Web workers, doing that already? What's, or better said, who's stopping us? 🤔

#RemoteWork #HybridWork #DistributedWork #DigitalTransformation #WorkSmarter

So, to that extent, here are some of the hashtags I have just started following: #RemoteWork #HybridWork and, specially, #DistributedWork 😍👍🏻

In the context of the latter, what else would folks out there recommend worth while following, or paying attention to?

[Was also thinking of adding Collaboration into the mix, but, my goodness, is that word overloaded with a bunch of non-sense! No, thanks! I'll pass 😤]

#PKMastery

@billseitz @jasongorman
“Visual supervision is a joke for development workers. Visual supervision is for prisoners.” 🔥

#DistributedWork #RemoteWork

“The honchos calling the shots…appear to be unaware of how people at the company do their jobs.”

https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-rto-mess-return-to-office-remote-work-2023-9

#RemoteWork #HybridWork #DistributedWork

@photomatt nice summary of distributed work in first 3 minutes. I prefer #distributedwork as a term over #remotework as well and for same reasons you mention

Big Hotel Firms Fight For Midscale Extended-Stay Guests As Use Cases Proliferate

https://www.thecompanydime.com/midscale-extended-stay/

#extendedstay
#businesstravel
#travelmanagement
#corporatetravel
#distributedwork
#hotels

@drahardja It's been a minute since I thought deeply about this stuff, but this mess has always seemed more or less inevitable.

Hybrid work was always the easiest thing to say, but not necessarily to do. Lots of messy issues still unsolved.

Full colocated / #returnToOffice has decades of institutional knowledge behind it.

Full #RemoteWork / #DistributedWork is the (relatively) untested frontier that holds a lot of promise but also a lot of risk, especially from the historical perspective.

‘Spontaneity and management are potentially more effective in the office’ 👉🏻 http://www.forbes.com/sites/markmurphy/2023/01/25/returning-to-the-office-does-not-magically-improve-collaboration-culture-or-leadership/

Is it? Colour me skeptic 🤔

‘Collaboration, culture and leadership could potentially benefit from working in person, but just being in person does not automatically improve any of those issues’

Intentional comes to mind, frankly. W.r.t. #DistributedWork, are we trying our hardest yet? 🤯👎🏻

#DigitalTransformation #RemoteWork #HybridWorkplace #Leadership #SocBiz #OpenBiz #WorkSmarter #Culture

‘The people asking for face time are leaders trying to get people back in the office, hoping to reclaim pre-pandemic patterns’ 👉🏻 https://hbr.org/2023/05/face-to-face-time-with-your-employees-still-matters

‘For leaders, it means being creative and intentional to make sure you’re seen when it matters’

I guess we'll have to wait for when that 'creative & intentional' happens async, through two-way conversations in the written form 😬😎👍🏻

#DigitalTransformation #RemoteWork #HybridWorkplace #DistributedWork #SocBiz #OpenBiz #Leadership #WorkSmarter

I’m listening to a convo (from 2021) between Matt Mullenweg and Shane Parrish about distributed work, and they mention how it’s easier to slack off in an office than in a distributed work environment where your results are what counts. And it suddenly dawned on me that THAT’s why us neurodiverse folks tend to prefer truly distributed work settings to in-person office settings. A lot of “slacking off in an office” is based on seeming to be busy which is, essentially, posturing. And I don’t know many ND folks who are good at posturing. I think we just don’t see the point of it! :D I think I was low-key aware of this before but it’s good to be able to put it in words.

https://distributed.blog/2021/06/10/distributed-by-default-knowledge-project/

#distributedWork #automattic #distributedBlog

‘The pandemic didn’t create distributed work, the laptop did’ 👉🏻 https://seths.blog/2023/05/the-new-way-of-work/

An uncomfortable, but superb blog post by #SethGodin

‘It takes a different set of leadership and management skills to create the conditions for effective distributed work. But it’s incredibly powerful when you get it right’

(‘The system comes for each of us ’ 🤯👉🏻 https://seths.blog/song/)

#DigitalTransformation #RemoteWork #HybridWorkplace #DistributedWork #SocBiz #OpenBiz #WorkSmarter #Leadership #LLMs

‘The industry has been so focused on optimizing efficiency, productivity, and workflows that they’ve forgotten the key ingredient for creating successful outcomes: humans’ 👉🏻 https://www.atlassian.com/blog/announcements/introducing-ways-of-working-modern-work-coaches

‘[…] great people with powerful tools and intuitive ways of working, make formidable teams that can really reach for the world’s most complex problems’ 👈🏻 Oooh, you certainly got my attention there! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

#DigitalTransformation #DistributedWork #SocBiz #OpenBiz #WorkSmarter #TeamWork #Collaboration

‘[Customers] have become increasingly interested in how companies engage with employees and tend to prioritize doing business with those that value their employees, treat them fairly, and prioritize their well-being’ 👉🏻 https://hbr.org/2023/04/engaged-employees-create-better-customer-experiences

Saving that☝🏻😅 for when employers proclaim out loud: ‘With all of this #RemoteWork nonsense going on, people just don’t want to work anymore!’🤯

#DigitalTransformation #EmployeeExperience #DistributedWork #DEX #Engagement #SocBiz #OpenBiz #WorkSmarter

‘[…] while leaders are often well-intentioned, many are “out of touch” and are upset that workers won’t return to doing things like they were done pre-pandemic’ 👉🏻 https://www.fastcompany.com/90885232/ceos-tantrums-productivity-return-to-office-plans

Why should they? Why can’t they have, instead, a two-way conversation IN THE OPEN (i.e. via #ESNs) to understand the needs & wants of employees, and adjust accordingly? What’s stopping them? 🤔

#DigitalTransformation #RemoteWork #HybridWorkplace #DistributedWork #WorkSmarter #Leadership #SocBiz #OpenBiz

‘The benefits of remote work, including increased productivity, improved focus and concentration, and improved work-life balance, are too significant to be ignored’ 👉🏻 https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/new-study-uncovers-secrets-remote-work-productivity-tsipursky/

Oh, allow me to ask a question: why are we then ignoring the obvious? I mean, at some point we should transition from work = physical space to work = a state of mind, don't you think? 🤯

#DigitalTransformation #RemoteWork #HybridWorkplace #DistributedWork #SocBiz #OpenBiz #WorkSmarter #WFA #Leadership

‘[…] remote workers are often willing to accept lower wages in exchange for the flexibility of working from home’ 👉🏻 https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/new-study-uncovers-secrets-remote-work-productivity-tsipursky/

Errr, excuse me, but that's *not* the case. It's just certain people (=management) want you to believe we’d be willing to do that. In reality, we *just* want to be paid what we are worth, regardless of where we are working. That simple 🤯

#DigitalTransformation #RemoteWork #HybridWorkplace #DistributedWork #SocBiz #OpenBiz #WorkSmarter #WFA #Leadership