Why I defend Bill Michael, no matter his privilege

Written for Linkedin: view the original here.

 

Bill Michael, the outgoing UK chair of KPMG, is probably not someone who many people would feel inspired to defend. He has quit his role after comments he made criticising staff for moaning about the effects of the Coronavirus pandemic, and for a blistering attack on Unconscious Bias Training.

5 reasons why managers dislike staff working from home – and how to get over them

Written for LinkedIn: view the original here.

 As Coronavirus planning invariably ramps up across the business landscape, we will hear a lot about allowing staff to work from home. This is a topic that in my experience, divides opinion with as much ferocity as the scone/scon debate, or cream versus jam first.

Why I'm not buying in to 'Brand Positivity'

What is Facebook’s most important question when hiring candidates? Here is the answer. The most important question is this: “On your very best day at work – the day you come home and think you have the best job in the world – what did you do that day?”
As million dollar questions go, you would be forgiven for hoping the sentence construction was a little more graceful, but the lack of elegance is far from the most sinister feature of such a question.