‘Work at home’ or ‘return to office’?

The year 2023 has immersed the business world in a ‘remote work vs return to the office’ debate. We all have a view on this as workers but imagine yourself as a CEO. How would you chart a course for the best interests of your organization and its shareholders? Benjamin Franklin famously used ‘T-charts’ to…

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Time to fix hybrid work’s decades of ignored challenges

Hybrid work isn’t new. Most office workers have experienced it in various ways for many years. But many organizations have under-invested in solving the persistent challenges of hybrid work. Today we have rich opportunities to address both the new and old challenges of distributed work and, in so doing, build more resilient and productive companies….

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How to train publishers and content owners for your SharePoint intranet 

An intranet is only as good as its content. You can have a beautiful design, amazing integrations and all the latest bells and whistles, but if your content has no value, is out of date, badly written or hard to find, then your intranet is not a success. Ultimately adoption will suffer.   Most intranets rely…

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Working with intention and purpose in a hybrid working world

Paul Miller kicked off our hybrid working blog series a few weeks ago with Why post-pandemic HQs must be big and small – at the same time, which shared examples of organizational ‘workspaces’ optimized for collaboration.  When you consider the relentless pace of organizational and technology change, the hybrid working holy grail is built on shifting sands…

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Why post-pandemic HQs must be big and small – at the same time

Everyone has an ‘office story’ in these post-pandemic times – and that tale tends to runs along now familiar lines: “I’m in the office sometimes but not anywhere near as often as before – and it’s working fine for me overall.”    Which, as we all know, leaves whole swathes of corporate real estate floundering as it’s…

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Understanding guided attention 

A new approach to overcoming digital friction and improving the digital workplace experience by Rob Ryan, Director of Product Marketing and Business Value, Workgrid Software  Taking the digital workplace beyond the pandemic  The past few years have been challenging, to say the least. You’ve endured sleepless nights as you scrambled to keep both employees and…

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Delivering internal communications and intranet content in a hybrid workplace: the challenges and opportunities

Guest author, Annette Corbett, identifies some quick wins and reasons to be optimistic about the future of internal communications and content in the digital workplace.

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