Your urge to clean, organize, repair or cook is the way you recharge as a remote worker. — My beauty supplies are in labeled, genre-specific bins… because I had a major work deadline. Check out the new supply shelves under our stairs, and you’ll find a 36" x 14" shelf with neatly organized stashes labeled “hair care”, “hand sanitizer”, “hand soap”, and “body wash”, as well as one…

Parenting an autistic kid made me value the flexibility everyone deserves. — Long before I had kids myself, I was conscious of the struggle faced by working parents — a struggle that begins anew each back-to-school season. In my first big job, I was hired expressly to ensure that my boss — a working mom with two tweens — could play a…

How to know when it’s worth going into the office — or getting on a plane — As offices tentatively re-open, events resume, and people start getting on airplanes again, we will have to start evaluating which clients, meetings and events are worth doing in-person and which can be done as well (or perhaps even better) as remote meetings or as no meeting at all. It’s part…

Strategies to help you disconnect from work in the digital era — It’s hard to make a vacation feel like a vacation in the digital era. Mobile phones and email mean that we’re almost always within reach of our boss, colleagues, and clients. Remote work compounds the problem: What defines a vacation if you’re already out of the office? And how do…

Unearthing the root cause behind our collective meeting burnout — “Too many meetings!” Whether you’re working from home or from the office, the complaint is the same. It’s not just a matter of Zoom fatigue — though yes, online meetings are more exhausting than in-person meetings. It’s that we’ve taken a business culture that was already overloaded with meetings, and…

An “always on” existence can be extremely draining — When you work where you live, the effort to separate work life from personal life can feel like a bit of a performance: You’re hiding your PJs under a professional blazer, or throwing a green screen in front of your household mess. That’s why I’m going to take some inspiration…