Your Boss Still Thinks You’re Faking It While Working From Home
Hello, and welcome back. In this edition we explore the “productivity paranoia” that’s causing tensions between bosses and workers. Plus, the U.S. surgeon general’s new warning about toxic workplaces and how to stop over-apologizing and have more no-regrets conversations.?
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?Are You Really Sorry? How to Make Your Apologies Count
Sorry, I'm just now seeing your email! (You sent it 15 minutes ago.) Sorry that you completely misinterpreted that thing I said. Sorry, you just rammed into me with your grocery store cart.
The declaration of remorse has been transformed into a knee-jerk reaction peppering our everyday conversation. WSJ Work+Life columnist Rachel Feintzeig says we can stop the sorry madness and make our mea culpas count again.??
Surgeon General’s Warning: Work Can Be Hazardous To Your Health
The U.S. surgeon general’s office—which is more often associated with warnings about nicotine, Zika and the Covid-19 pandemic—issued new guidance outlining how long hours, limited autonomy and low wages can impact people’s health and organizational performance.?
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?More Bosses Suffer From ‘Productivity Paranoia’?
Out of sight, out of mind? Try out of the boss’s control.
While many remote and hybrid workers fear being forgotten by supervisors, the current state of work has given managers a neurosis of their own: that employees could be up to anything while working from home. Employee surveillance is expanding, while many managers’ patience with work outside the office is shrinking.
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1 年AND YOU ? CAN YOU APOLOGIZE AT WORK WHEN IT'S NECESSARY? Apologizing if someone has been wronged, especially in the workplace, is an integral part of the ability to manage a full and profound social life because it improves interpersonal relationships, reduces anger, contains it and increases respect, sharing and team cohesion. Knowing how to apologize in the right way and above all at the right time is a highly appreciated quality not only from a professional point of view but also from a personal one. However, it is necessary not to make the common mistake of apologizing for every little thing. In this way, in the eyes of colleagues and managers, you will appear as a fragile, weak, insecure and vulnerable person who can be taken advantage of. Apologizing has to be sincere. Apologies are really important, because everyone can make mistakes but the important thing is to realize the actions done, the words spoken and try to fix it, but it must not become an exaggeration, because making amends for every little thing could even become annoying. So it's okay to acknowledge your mistakes, but only when they compromise the work of others or the relationship with a colleague.
Our global workforce report 2022, published earlier this year, found that more than a quarter of executives believe in-office workers are perceived as higher performers, compared to remote/hybrid employees. We need to end this perception. Organizations need to look critically at how work can be done successfully remote, and what work can't, and until they do, they're going to be stuck. https://bit.ly/3FvaYZR
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