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Photo courtesy Shawn Avery
Aug 30, 2023

Talking telework

SHAWN AVERY President and CEO, Hampton Roads Workforce Council, Norfolk Prior to the pandemic, did Hampton Roads Workforce Council allow hybrid or remote work?  We allowed employees to occasionally work remotely [due to] extenuating circumstances, such as car trouble, sick family members, etc.  What is your policy today, and how is it working?  Last year, we […]

Working a hybrid schedule in her job as a health policy and payment specialist for the American Physical Therapy Association, Rachel Miller logs in remotely Mondays and Wednesdays from her Alexandria apartment. Photo by Will Schermerhorn
Aug 30, 2023

Here to stay

Rachel Miller spent half of her undergraduate studies and then a portion of graduate school learning remotely behind a computer screen. Even the first job she took that aligned with her career goals — completing contact tracing during the COVID-19 pandemic while she worked toward her master’s degree in public health — was a remote […]

Photo by James Lee
Aug 30, 2023

Change management

Hands down, the most unintentionally funny of the alarmist stories about remote work must be the June “news” articles warning that by 2100, teleworking would result in a generation of obese, hunchbacked, prematurely aged people with swollen eyes, their hands permanently stuck in clawing gestures from using a mouse. Lest you worry that your great-great-grandchildren […]

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