by Joanie Connell | Aug 15, 2022 | Employee Engagement and Retention, Flexible Work, Generations
The pandemic took the existing problem of low employee engagement and made it even worse. Remote work has enabled trends such as quiet quitting, in which an employee decides to do only the bare minimum, ghosting, in which employees actually quit their job without...
by Joanie Connell | Aug 31, 2021 | Blog, Flexible Work, Leadership, Remote Management
Whether hybrid teams can succeed is the question of the moment but it is not a new one. Flexible Work Solutions got its name in back 2005 because we were helping companies establish remote, hybrid, and other flexible work arrangements. People today are...
by Joanie Connell | Mar 13, 2020 | Blog, Flexible Work, Remote Management
With schools closing down and workplaces going online, many of us are finding ourselves in uncharted territory. It’s not just that we have to work from home, but we have to do it with our kids running around the house. The fact is you’re going to be more distracted...
by Joanie Connell | Mar 8, 2020 | Blog, Flexible Work, Leadership, Remote Management
How do you lead your employees who work from home? How do you manage a virtual team? What are the best virtual communication hacks? Two important challenges arise when we ask our employees to work from home. First is the technology challenge and...
by Joanie Connell | Dec 5, 2017 | Flexible Work, Podcast, Women Leaders
Joanie Connell hosts a Women Lead Radio interview with Kelly Poelker, author of Virtual Assistant – The Series: Become a Highly Successful, Sought After VA. She also runs her own Virtual Assistant company called Another 8 Hours. Joanie asks Kelly about...
by Joanie Connell | Aug 16, 2014 | Blog, Flexible Work, Leadership
This is a compelling story from the New York Times on how new shift scheduling technology (and corporate desire for higher profits) affects lower-level employees and their ability to meet demands outside of work. Working Anything But 9-5: Scheduling Technology Leaves...
