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Advisor, speaker and writer on people, tech and future of work. Co-founded Future Forum, ex-Slack, Google and many others. Dad, dog walker and slow runner. Often wrong.
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I doubt they plan to hold themselves back, but there’s cause for business leaders to find some spine…
open.substack.com/pub/theworkf...
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“As the Supreme Court has made clear time and time again, the government cannot rely on the ‘threat of invoking legal sanctions and other means of coercion’ to suppress disfavored speech.”
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Judge Abelson wrote that…
provisions of the orders were “unconstitutionally vague on their face,” and beyond that, provisions of the orders “squarely, unconstitutionally,” violated freedom of speech.’
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First Amendment:
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
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"Unlike Twitter, where service outages were merely inconvenient, Federal services are essential to people and businesses nationwide."
Me, a couple weeks back when "return to office" was all he was doing.
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Context in his newsletter below.
Basically, there aren't many if any "profiles in courage" showing up in the business world at the moment among those worried about chaos and the potential impact of a constitutional crisis:
www.axios.com/newsletters/...?
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I...assumed this was a joke.
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…and the impact isn’t based on performance or evenly felt.
Research shows women leave at 3x the rate of men.
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Also OPM access to personnel records of millions of Americans, and those that had access locked out of the systems:
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I guess that highlight is better than “the popcorn was good” 😊
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Emelia Perez last night. Amazing.
The Room Next Door tonight.
The Brutalist will have to wait.
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Will everyone follow Trump? Some undoubtedly; headlines will continue about 5 day demands. Many will push harder on 3-4 days.
Other CEOs see flexibility as a talent advantage, or get that battling employees blows engagement and trust.
If you can't redesign for flex, how's genAI going to work?
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Related, office vacancy rates and office mortgage delinquencies hit an all-time high at the end of '24.
Still wondering if Big Bank return-to-office demands are related to real estate? Wonder no more...
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Office utilization (butts in seats) is 50% of pre-pandemic. That hasn't changed much the last two years.
The week of Jan 15th, which should have been up massively given headlines? 49%
"Pre-pandemic" average at most companies was ~50% seat utilization. So reality? 25% of seats occupied today.
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Work from home is up 5X from pre-pandemic levels, according to @nickbloom.bsky.social and team's tracking.
The trendline has been very modestly down the last year, but largely "flat as a pancake" as Nick puts it.
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Especially since he’s off to such a great start.
Approval rating already below 50
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Made a lovely year end contribution to them. Great org.
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This is great, and it’s also true of ANY good operating model — remote or not!
“If you’re serious about implementing remote work, you can’t just go grab an operating model off the shelf; you’ll be better served by building your own.”
The alternative is random chance across cubicles.
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Have your neighbors come over and start talking really loudly over you while you’re trying to finish that report for your boss.
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KPMG managed to have that number at 34% and 83% six months apart in 2024.
Also, if wishes were fishes...
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You’re too kind.
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This one’s a blast:
“Instead of equity and inclusion programs, we will build programs that focus on how to apply fair and consistent practices that mitigate bias for all, no matter your background."
In other words, they’ll ensure equitable treatment and be inclusive of people from all backgrounds?
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For those that think it’s happening (or don’t believe it’s illegal), Sarh Green Carnmichel brought together facts and legal experts in @bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/feat....
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Example: no longer "require managers to source candidates from underrepresented backgrounds”
and “never making hiring decisions based on protected characteristics (race, gender, etc.).”
Playing to the anti-DEI crowd. Anyone who’s done corporate training knows it’s not legal to hire on that basis.
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Won’t advertisers start to ditch as that happens? Or is Meta that much better than X at ensuring your ads aren’t with n posts of inflammatory horsesh*t?
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Yep. Having managed teams who worked in multiple cities for a couple decades pre-pandemic, I knew the office wasn't the MOST important factor.
But I didn't get until I had to lead people without everyday-in-an-office as the default that it was the LEAST important factor.