Create a Solid WFAA (WorkFromAnywhereAnytime) Framework to See Your Employees Thrive in 2023

Happy New Year! This is my first article of the entire year and I have to start with a spot of vulnerability and admit that I would have liked to have had good news such as “I’ve been silent forever but I’m done with the book” but I’m not. The reason why is trifold from what I can tell.

Firstly - I must be honest enough to admit that proximity to the deadline is a much more reliable method of getting me to do anything than its absence.

Secondly, and this is a non-excuse - I am writing on an ever-developing “live” unfolding situation that is developing under our very eyes. For instance, I had no sooner closed the chapter on Burnout, that Jacinda made me have to revisit it last week with her resignation and the admission that her tank is empty.

Lastly - it’s because I’m much slower. Incomparably slower as compared to the last book in fact. To be fair “People Before Tech” was written in the middle of the first lockdown and we were different people then. We certainly had different capacities and considerably more hope.

The capacity bit is unavoidable. We are all suffering from Post Pandemic Stress Disorder and its depressive or anxious burnout manifestations in various ways and to varying degrees. I don’t even believe there are enough exceptions to warrant a caveat of “well, maybe not "everyone” because I can’t think of any human being I know who is utterly unchanged and unaffected irrespective of age, race, profession or situation during the pandemic. Even our children have been shown to be suffering from a loss of energy and intention to engage in social enterprises as it came out last week in a study of teens and pre-teens.