Last week’s Borderless Executive Live revealed how forward-thinking business leaders are making people’s lives better and more productive by incorporating the design of human-centric workplaces into their corporate strategies.
Sudhir Saseedharan, Tetra Pak’s Director of Workplace Experience & Future Working and Brett Hautop, LinkedIn’s Vice President of Workplace Experience are leading the way for two of the world’s leading corporations and creating phenomenal places where people choose to work. Watch or listen to the conversation with Andrew Kris, on Borderless Executive Live.
The author surveyed 5,600 workers from various industries from January 2019 to December 2021, finding that worker dissatisfaction not only starts as early as age 25 — it’s been here since before the pandemic started. Her advice: aim for work-life alignment, not work-life balance. Find out what drives them as an individual — and reshape their jobs together. Engage them in the recruiting process.
There’s been a lot of buzz about a 4-day workweek. But it will be the ‘4 + 1’ workweek that ultimately wins out: 4 days of “work” and 1 day of “learning.” Several forces are converging in a way that point toward the inevitability of this workplace future.
How can leaders help their teams combat change exhaustion — or step out of its clutches? Too often, organizations simply encourage their employees to be resilient, placing the burden of finding ways to feel better solely on individuals. Leaders need to recognize that change exhaustion is not an individual issue, but a collective one that needs to be addressed at the team or organization level.
