Featuring Julian Birkenshaw, Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship, Institute of Entrepreneurship and Private Capital, London Business School Thematiks: On Research presents brief conversations with the authors of the most-viewed posts featured in the newsletter. In this episode, I speak with Julian Birkinshaw, Ph.D. about his research into how the COVID-19 crisis has changed management. The original post is…
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A new study uncovers the critical role that firm flexibility plays in CFO decision making during and post-pandemic I do not typically present two consecutive posts on the same topic, but I will make an exception this week. Earlier this week, I reviewed research on the pandemic’s impact on corporate managers. Today I highlight a…
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New research looks at how the pandemic’s shift to virtual work impacted managers and presents five recommendations for the approaching hybrid workplace With the pandemic receding, we are starting to see the first wave of research about how the crisis affected workplaces. There is, naturally, a tendency to focus that research on the experience of…
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The pandemic did not create burnout, but new research shows that it made an already bad problem worse — a condition that will continue even after the crisis is over When one thinks of employee engagement with work and of employee well-being, it is natural to think of them as positively related. It makes intuitive…
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Featuring Christoph Siemroth, Senior Lecturer, Department of Economics, University of Essex Thematiks: On Research presents brief conversations with the authors of the most-viewed posts featured in the newsletter. Yesterday’s post on the impact that the pandemic has had on companies and workers is the most viewed ever on Thematiks. I was fortunate to speak today with…
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New research concludes that working from home during the COVID-19 crisis lowered productivity, as people put in longer hours just to keep up with past performance For most corporate leaders, one of the most important debates of the pandemic has been its impact on worker productivity. After all, no one had ever seen anything like…
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The pandemic sent about half of all workers from the office to home, and new research predicts that much of the impact of the WFH migration is here to stay The 2020 pandemic created a seismic shift in the global working world, and no change was more significant than the mass migration of workers from…
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The workspace has always been a mirror of our conception of capitalism, and the pandemic may force capitalism to evolve yet again It’s not often that I come across great workspace insights in a political journal, but that’s exactly what happened when I read Scott Beauchamp’s outstanding analysis of workspace history in American Affairs. Beauchamp’s well-written piece…
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