As debates about remote work often focus on policies and return-to-office mandates, a more important question is frequently overlooked: what actually makes someone successful at working remotely. Remote and hybrid work do not simply change where work happens; they require new skills in focus, self-management, communication, and boundary-setting. This post explores why some people struggle in…
As remote work became normalized during and after the COVID-19 pandemic, the debate quickly shifted from whether remote work was possible to who controls where work happens. Return-to-office mandates have revealed deeper tensions around power, trust, flexibility, and productivity between employees and employers. This post examines the tradeoffs created by remote work, the policy shifts…
Six years after California’s COVID-19 lockdown began, the rapid transition to remote work remains one of the most significant workplaces shifts in modern history. What started as an emergency response quickly became a large-scale experiment in how work could be structured differently. As millions of employees moved from offices to home workspaces almost overnight, long-standing assumptions…
