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Command and Control Leaders Are the Ones Fearing You’re Slacking
The business world is often times divided between “us” and “them”. There’s the “us” versus “them” where “us” is the employees and “them” is the organisation, but then there’s a more insidious and even more damaging type of “us” versus “them” and that’s where the “us” is still the employees but...
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Burnout and Impostor Syndrome for 7 Out of 10 Knowledge Workers
Burnout and Impostor Syndrome for 7 Out of 10 Knowledge Workers
“A 2022 study by work management platform Asana found that 70% of the more than 10,000 knowledge workers it surveyed across seven countries had experienced burnout or imposter syndrome in the past year.” Blimey, that strikes me as a super big deal, right? Crisis-level-big-deal I would say!
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Recognition, Performance Reviews and the Human Work
Recognition, Performance Reviews and the Human Work
We’re a distributed fully remote international business at PeopleNotTech but even so, many of us are in the United Kingdom so yesterday we decided to let people choose if they wanted to avail themselves of the bank holiday and honour their Queen’s memory by reminiscing or watching the majestic...
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Exploring How to Reward the Human Work
Exploring How to Reward the Human Work
As we warned yesterday, we are fighting on behalf of the teams that have mercifully overcome their resistance, biases and fears and have started regularly engaging in the human work - we believe they deserve unequivocal recognition and payment for doing so. This is the beginning of a heavy...
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It’s High Time We Reward Our People for the Human Work
It’s High Time We Reward Our People for the Human Work
For those of you who read both newsletters this won’t come as a surprise - we at PeopleNotTech are openly embarking on a new “crusade” if you will - that of getting employees to be appreciated and rewarded for the human work. The “Pay them for it” campaign. What is it you ask? It is our...
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New Crusade - “PAY YOUR PEOPLE FOR THE HUMAN WORK FFS!”
New Crusade - “PAY YOUR PEOPLE FOR THE HUMAN WORK FFS!”
We have to be honest - we know we have asked for a lot. We spent the last few years saying to you: “We have oodles of HumanDebt™and the only way to clear -or at least make a dent in it-, is to distribute it to the team level and let you do masses of “human work” to better yourselves, so here we...