Next week, for the first time in three years, our team members in Ottawa, Montreal, Toronto, Halifax, Victoria and Edmonton will all be united for a team retreat.Even with reduced travel budgets, investing in team retreats remains important in the context of hybrid work. These...
There’s an unspoken reality on hybrid work that we haven’t fully (or have barely) addressed in our change communications that I feel needs our attention … I recognize there are many realities, barriers and systemic problems that need to be addressed within the public sector...
With this week’s return to office announcement for all federal public servants (noting many never left), I couldn’t help but spend the weekend diving deeper into the research on hybrid work available outside of government. One being this great podcast by Adam Grant with guests...
When the pandemic hit, the public service asked all of its employees, at all levels, to work remotely with little notice or support. We set up our equipment in our home o!ces, at our kitchen tables or wherever else we could find, and kept working....