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In a recent interview, the tech CEO didn't hold back on his opinion of work-from-home culture.

It certainly takes more work to have hybrid employees participate in co-creating the return office, but the long-term gain is very much worth the short-term pain.

Leaders need to face the music: remote work, full-time or part-time is here to stay. That means addressing the unique challenges associated with this new work modality can make or break a team's success. Conflict resolution is one such challenge that, when mastered, can significantly boost your remote team's performance and morale.

In an era where hybrid work is becoming the norm, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon seems to be swimming against the tide. With the recent news of the bank's request for managing directors to return to the office full-time, it's clear that Dimon's crusade to bring employees back in person is not only a sign of weakness but also exposes an inability to adapt to the evolving world of work.

With the advent of generative AI like ChatGPT, we are on the cusp of realizing the full potential of remote and hybrid work by reducing - while not eliminating - the benefits of office visits.

96% of employees are dissatisfied with the tools they've been equipped with to manage their work.

How do you encourage creativity and out-of-the-box thinking digitally? By fostering a dynamic and supportive company culture.

As the CEO of a company that was an early adopter of a fully distributed workplace model, here are five important lessons I've learned from the experience.

A cookie-cutter approach won't work — here's what will.

Flexible work can increase the quality of life for employees while still meeting and exceeding the goals of the company.

While hiring tech talent locally is challenging and expensive, there is an increasing number of service providers that make Latin American tech talent accessible to US companies.

To truly take advantage of the benefits of hybrid meetings requires using the right tools and training to maximize everyone's participation and address the problems most companies face.

Demanding that employees return to the office could backfire against employers in the long run by spurring increases in labor union organizing. Here's why.

If you don't have clear, transparent and well-understood hybrid work guidelines, you're shooting yourself in the foot and harming retention and recruitment.

Deep employee engagement is vital – what are the best ways to build it?

A new report found that remote work experienced a sharp uptick between October and January, after a slump from its high in April 2021.

Offices used to house many departments and teams, but all were visible to one another. But, with remote work, we have very little visibility into what other departments are working on. This has reached a boiling point, where remote work has led to a lack of trust and productive collaboration across disciplines and teams.

Do such headlines represent the reality of a new wave or are they just clickbait for anxious workers who want to avoid the threat of a forced office return?

Live sales calls tie you down to a specific time and place. Direct messages helped free up my time and sales strategy — It can do the same for you.

Employers can successfully create a hybrid environment that benefits all employees by focusing on collaboration, flexibility, and a shared understanding of what hybrid means for the organization.

The benefit of "remote work" is that it should enable greater freedom and flexibility — yet for many, it's led to be even more inundated with communications, back-to-back meetings and extended working hours. To realize the potential of remote work as a path to greater productivity and freedom, we need to move toward asynchronous work. Here's how to do it.