Over the 12 years that I have spent as a bank officer, I experienced four major head office relocations. Each time the process resembled a construction site where each of us, from clerk to top management, worked hard for many months. No one was spared from logistical trouble, pre-and-after-relocation meet[...]

Geographically unrestricted staff recruitment – a compromise best suited for exceptional circumstances or a wide, attractive opportunity for both parties?

Until recently, the labor market operated almost exclusively around a tacit agreement between players: employees were looking for jobs close to[...]

Imagine that you’re deeply focused on a task, when the phone starts ringing, so you need to interrupt whatever you were doing. A colleague announces that he will send you an email in a few minutes or he asks for help in a minor issue. On the other line, someone else keeps calling. Meanwhile, a colla[...]

From the commercial worker to the university professor, from the civil servant to the corporate director, we have all spent a paradoxical pandemic year: while many external freedoms have been highly restricted, our inner changes and adaptation to a new working style have been accelerated.

Now that[...]

After last year’s experience, many of us have become experts in work from home and we could actually write books on this topic, but very few have a complete perspective on remote work.

In fact, the unusual context imposed by the pandemic allowed us to discover through work from home an alternative[...]

Do you happen to know people who have moved to the countryside or smaller towns after many years spent in big cities while dreaming of a different lifestyle? Or people who have traded a big city for another big city hundreds of miles away?

In the past, we used to associate these relocations with p[...]

If you are looking for an exhilarating reading to help you get straight to the point on the peculiarities and advantages of remote work, we have a perfect suggestion for you: the bestseller “Remote: Office Not Required.”

Have you ever thought that your talent and professional worth are[...]

Do we like to feel controlled? Obviously not. Do we like to have control over others? Some may say yes. The vast majority, however, would happily give up this apparent privilege for something much more precious: autonomy. Try to make a simple survey around you and you’ll see that people would rather appre[...]

“If you can’t let your employees work from home out of fear they’ll slack off without your supervision, you’re a babysitter, not a manager.” (Jason Fried)

When we talk about remote work, we’re talking about a vote of confidence that the old mode of working from a fixed office doesn’t take into acco[...]