Research reveals the return to work is causing a specific type of anxiety

As summer draws to a close, many businesses are gearing up to have workers return to the office—at least part of the time. Are you wishing remote work would never end? Whatever your reasoning, you are far from alone. A recent article revealed the deeply personal reasons that make some never want to set foot in the office again. What’s unfolding is a major disconnect between workers and managers that has employees' anxiety ramping up as they call BS on their leaders and want to quit. All this has leaders scrambling to fend off the Great Resignation. Read on for more context, retention strategies, and—if you must go back—ways to bust out of some of the bad habits you may have acquired over the past 16 months.
—Lydia Dishman

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The unspoken reasons employees don’t want remote work to end

Sure, they have more time and productivity is up. But there are also deeply personal reasons employees don’t want to go back to work as it was.

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Fellow CEOs, here’s why your employees are angry about being asked to return to the office

The head of an AgTech company says that bosses must recognize employees have been through a transformative event and therefore, the implications of it.

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Why workers are calling BS on leaders about returning to the office

Workforce scholars find that employees are feeling burned over broken work-from-home promises and corporate culture ‘BS’ as employers try to bring them back to the office.

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Research reveals the return to work is causing a specific type of anxiety

A recent survey found that out of 4,553 office workers in five different countries, every single person reported feeling anxious about the idea of returning to in-person work.

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Workers are saying ‘screw you’ to their leaders. Here’s why and how to fix it

A master executive coach says ‘If you’re calling this attitude entitlement and ignoring it—or retaliating with tighter constraints on where and when your employees work—you’re missing a huge opportunity.”

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3 things no one is talking about that make workers not want to quit

The managing editor at InHerSight reflects on which factors contribute to how potential hires and current employees gauge a company’s level of commitment to equity and inclusion.

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5 bad habits remote workers need to bust (and ways to do it)

The CEO of a leadership training and development company says that with a lot of work done via videoconference calls, leaders have to take a few extra steps to identify some of the bad habits teams have developed.

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