2026 has somehow shown up at the doorstep, uninvited and suspiciously early. I am still nowhere close to halfway through my 2025 goals, yet the avalanche of “wrapped” messages and year-end posts has made it abundantly clear that the year is officially done and dusted, and that it is, apparently, time to put my feet … Continue reading 2025 World of Work Wrapped
Imagine a world where employees, not just the Board of Directors, assign performance ratings to CEOs and determine if they need to be placed on a performance improvement plan. The 2025 edition of Blind's CEO performance review did exactly that. Following the precedent set by the anonymous professional network in 2023-24, when they first enabled … Continue reading Placing CEOs on a PIP
Dwindling start-up investments, relentless headcount pressures (read layoffs), and an obsession with productivity metrics clearly demonstrate that there's no running away from our current 'era of efficiency.' As organizations continue to grapple with their largest expense, it’s time to talk about the silver bullet that is supposedly solving this big bulging bill i.e., Agents and … Continue reading Let’s talk about the cost of AI
I have two half-written blog posts at the moment but having witnessed the OpenAI drama unfold over the last five days, albeit from a distance, those two can wait a little longer. Never in an organization’s history, has there been so much going on in less than a week. The last time a fired CEO … Continue reading The OpenAI drama
Two things happened when ChatGPT rose to its current popularity: users wanted to use it for almost everything and organizations rushed to create data security policies that would stop employees from doing just that. Employers were petrified that sensitive data would find its way into the public sphere and banned the use of OpenAI on … Continue reading Microsoft’s Copilot is the Future of Work
Last month, Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai sent an email to employees extending work from home to September 2021. The email also painted a picture of what the future of work would look like. Google joined the likes of Netflix, Microsoft, Workday and ViacomCBS who have declared that while work will probably not return … Continue reading Google’s coming back to work
There was a time when Maslow’s hierarchy dictated how organization structured their benefits. However, times have changed and so has the playing field. Most basic needs determined by Maslow are now offered by organizations across the board and have ceased to lend competitive advantage. In a generation where benefits like working from home, free food … Continue reading Social Responsibility: The New Competitive Advantage
Of all the ideas that resurfaced in 2019, the 4-day work week is by far my favorite. After all, who wouldn’t like an extra day off work every single week? The concept of a 4-day work week dates as far back as half a century. Nixon first predicted it in 1956. As work productivity continued to witness … Continue reading Free Time: The Forgotten Dream
17 days ago, I was away on a faraway island that had no internet connectivity (hard to imagine in today’s day and age). As I sat beside the beach sipping sangria, Google employees across the globe staged a walkout. Eight days passed before I read details on what was possibly one of the biggest movement … Continue reading #GoogleWalkout
It’s the time of the year when your employees are at their lowest productivity level (well, most of the employees). It’s also the time of the year when no one would dream of conducting their employee satisfaction survey (obviously!). This and a few resignations; all because of your performance management system. Shouldn't something this important leave … Continue reading The dreaded Bell Curve again!
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