Busy-Bites
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Busy-Bite: Continued work from home is worth a pay cut, say Americans – 9to5Mac
This is what is amazing to me. People are willing to work from home for less. And the economics of it makes sense. You save money on gas, likely car […]
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Busy-Bite: My interview
I was interviewed a while back for the Best Places to Work in Chattanooga edition of Edge magazine. I just wanted to share the article here. It was a great […]
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Busy-Bite: The Busyness Trap
The Wall Street Journal just posted this gem: www.wsj.com/articles/escaping-the-efficiency-trapand-finding-some-peace-of-mind-11628262751 The choice you can make is to stop believing you’ll ever solve the challenge of busyness by cramming more in, because […]
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Busy-Bites: This Is What Happened After A Bunch Of Employees At A Burger King Quit
The trend of post-pandemic quitting we discussed in “Take This Job and Shove It” is alive and well in Lincoln, Nebraska.
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Busy-Bites: Et Tu, Frito? Frito-Lay Workers Strike Over Long Hours, Poor Conditions | Food & Wine
If this is true, which it seems likely that it is, then they should strike. This is what we mean by taking things too far, covered in our latest podcast: […]
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Busy-Bites: UBS Joins Others on Hybrid Work
We can add UBS to the growing list of banks that are looking to allow more hybrid work. HBSC has already committed it this and is shrinking office space as […]
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Busy-Bite: Southwest Airlines, Doing Good While Doing Well
In a recent WSJ article (www.wsj.com/articles/southwest-airlines-offers-extra-pay-to-avoid-july-travel-snags-11624992632), Southwest is doubling worker pay to avoid disruptions in service during peak travel times. This is the sort of flexibility that is good to […]
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Anger and Alcohol in the Air
Anger and alcohol have never been a fun combo. Take a large metal tube, cram it to bursting with angry people, add alcohol, shake it violently and unpredictably while launching […]
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Busy-Bite: Focus on Doing What is Right
‘That’s What Makes Bill [Gates] Very, Very Dangerous’ The Busy-Bite: The focus is on doing what is right, not being right. Changing your mind after being presented with new information […]
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Even our Jokes are Terrifying Windows into the Dark Side of Work
In the second episode of The Busyness Paradox, we tried our hand at satire with a fake ad for a preposterously invasive employee-tracking software service called “HR Tracker.” Seemed preposterous […]