Four times the number of women as men dropped out of the labour force around the world during the global pandemic. The impact of Covid-19 on women’s professional careers and family child-care support systems had a severe impact.
As we start to settle into the new year, it is often this time that we start to be more productive, we remember the skills and theories that we heard about last year but how do we use these to help us in our journey to get stuff done? Here are practical ways to put learning into practice.
Billions of people around the world spend time at the start of the new year setting resolutions and making plans in order to reach their goals. Sometimes these goals are so elaborate and unattainable which can demotivate and makes achieving the smallest goal impossible.
At year end, many of us start the journey of reflecting on the past year's achievements, we look back at our original goals and assess how well we managed in meeting them. We do this for ourselves and for the people that work in our teams.
Before the pandemic, many of us were already struggling with the accessibility of technology, the ease in logging onto the work platform to check emails or updating a project plan at any time was originally seen as a convenience.
Following on the last discussion about the positive benefits of maintaining a hybrid working arrangement for employees, we came across a very interesting article that articulates extremely well the counter argument.
After nearly two years of working remotely, employees have mixed emotions about returning to the office full time. At Simitri, our employees have expressed their desire to maintain the flexibility of a hybrid work environment.