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Just Want to Sit on the Porch? You’re Not Alone!

It took nearly my entire adult life, but I’ve finally become fashionable. Suddenly, it’s cool not to be career-focused. I’m proud to say I was ahead of the curve when it comes to non-ambition. Oh, sure, growing up I had the usual variety of career-oriented dreams: archeologist, psychologist, midwife, pilot. But I vividly remember my […]

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Why This Remote Work Is Different From All Other Remote Work

One enormous, if tangential, effect of the COVID-19 pandemic has been businesses’ wholesale embrace of remote work. Perhaps embrace is the wrong word—most of the many thousands of organizations that have sent their employees home have had little choice in the matter. But even for those for whom at least a portion of their workforce […]

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What Else Is Lost When the Kids Have Flown…

A few weeks ago, I blogged about the empty nest and me. This week, in lieu of my usual blog post, I’ve guest-written a sort of “Empty Nest Part 2” for the fabulous 1 Million for Work Flexibility.  This time, I focus on the bigger picture—the potential ramifications of this life stage for telecommuters.  Check […]

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New Perspective on the Empty Nest

My daughter graduated high school last week. By late August, she’ll be on her way to college, and, since she’s the younger of our two, I’ll be an empty-nester. The prospect of our quiet house, devoid of the wonderful chaos children (even the nearly-grown ones) leave in their wake, saddens me deeply. But I’m also […]

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Nuisance or Catastrophe? How You Feel About Snow May Depend On Your Job

There’s nothing like a little snow to throw the whole precarious balance of work and life right off its metaphorical fulcrum. Ok, a lot of snow. Here in New York City, we’ve had our small share of shoveling, and a lot of cringingly frigid weather of the kind that makes city officials warn ominously that […]

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Why Wasting Time Might Be Exactly
What Telecommuting Is All About

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I don’t know if procrastination is the hot topic these days or if my self-employed, home-office lifestyle has triggered a high percentage of customized procrastination feeds, but it seems like everywhere I look I find an article about conquering it. God knows, I can use those articles. In fact, I click on them as a […]

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Work-Life Blog

  • The Other Revolution in the Way We Work
  • Employees Aren’t the Enemy. So Why Are We Spying on Them?
  • Just Want to Sit on the Porch? You're Not Alone!
  • So What Will It Be, Employers?
  • This Is What Got Companies onto 2021's 100 Best Places to Work List

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Writing Blog

  • Who Knew Trump Had Something To Teach Us?
  • Blogging and Blogging Like I'm Running Out of Time
  • In a Pandemic, Employee Communications Are More Important than Ever
  • The Language is Changing and It Matters--A Lot
  • Three Things Jigsaw Puzzles Can Teach Us About Problem-Solving

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