Blog Posts tagged as: workplace

Discussion of "Out of Office" by guest writer Valerie Livingston

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This month’s post is by guest writer Valerie Livingston, a Business Librarian in the Business & Career Center – a discussion of questions on changing workplace norms raised by the book “Out of Office: The Big Problem and Bigger Promise of Working from Home”, especially as they pertain to librarians.  By now the notion of remote work has become so commonplace and absorbed into the culture that it seems almost quaint to label it as such. And yet, for many of us “working remotely” remains a goal and conduit for more of that precious resource: time and grander vista or even…

Musings: Introverts, extroverts, WFH, and returning to the office

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A conversation with a colleague got me thinking about how the pandemic, and specifically how quarantine/working from home (WFH) has been a very different experience for those who are extroverted and those who are introverted. And as WFH is a different experience for different folks, returning to the office will be felt differently too. Note: all the people quoted here have self-identified as extroverts (how DO you spell that word?) or introverts. The quotes without links are people I know…