by Jack Kelly | May 28, 2021 | Forbes Articles by Jack Kelly, Latest News
Two years ago, you would have thought I was a fool for saying that nearly every white-collar professional would be working from home. If I added that people can be just as productive remotely as being in an office setting, I’d be met with mocking derision. You’d laugh...
by Jack Kelly | May 27, 2021 | Forbes Articles by Jack Kelly, Latest News
Memorial Day has morphed from honoring the men and women who valiantly sacrificed their lives for our country to the unofficial kickoff of summer and holiday sales. In light of what we’ve been through, while horrific, wasn’t storming the beaches of Normandy or being...
by Jack Kelly | May 27, 2021 | Forbes Articles by Jack Kelly, Latest News
The job market has turned hot. After sheltering in your job for over a year, people are ready to explore new opportunities. It could be because your company won’t let you continue working at home, you’d like to pivot to a new and different type of job or reinvent...
by Jack Kelly | May 26, 2021 | Forbes Articles by Jack Kelly, Latest News
Americans are excessively eating, drinking, smoking pot, playing video games and watching porn while quarantined, I wrote back in April 2020. At the beginning of the Covid-19 outbreak, there was a heated debate about what people should be doing. Some said that this...
by Jack Kelly | May 26, 2021 | Forbes Articles by Jack Kelly, Latest News
The prevailing return-to-work hybrid model could turn to unintended disastrous consequences. Google, Microsoft, Citigroup and Ford Motors represent the gamut of companies that are offering employees the opportunity to work two or three days a week in the office, but...
by Jack Kelly | May 24, 2021 | Forbes Articles by Jack Kelly, Latest News
There’s a large group of hardworking individuals who’ve been ignored. Media reports covering corporate plans for the return-to-work are nearly exclusively focused on white-collar professionals, particularly marquee names, such...
by Jack Kelly | May 24, 2021 | Forbes Articles by Jack Kelly, Latest News
In a LinkedIn post, Satya Nadella, the CEO of Microsoft, wrote, “Hybrid work represents the biggest shift to how we work in our generation.” The “vast majority of employees say they want more flexible remote work options,” Nadella says based upon his research. At the...
by Jack Kelly | May 24, 2021 | Forbes Articles by Jack Kelly, Latest News
Landlords were terrified. The remote-work trend during the dark days of the pandemic looked like office buildings were a relic of a past antiquated age. In a time of social distancing, corralling thousands of human beings into close contact in steel enclosures for...
by Jack Kelly | May 21, 2021 | Forbes Articles by Jack Kelly, Latest News
Blind, an app that provides a platform for anonymous career-related posts, conducted a survey of employees at top-tier companies, including Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan. The survey asked workers if they’d prefer to permanently...
by Jack Kelly | May 21, 2021 | Forbes Articles by Jack Kelly, Latest News
What’s the first thought that crosses your mind when you hear a CEO of a big successful company steps down? You probably think that the executives got caught up with a salacious scandal, similar to what we’ve recently learned about Bill Gates. Zhang Yiming, the...
