Remote Work

Five principles can help leaders decide when it’s best to hold meetings with both colocated and virtual participants.

New research exposes the conflicts working parents may face when weighing concerns about work and career geography.

Top MIT SMR article topics include work and strategy redesign, and developing leadership skills for the hybrid future.

Addressing social capital in return-to-office plans, deploying AI to manage wealth, and reducing coordination complexity with microservices.

Leaders can help employees build the social connections that weakened during the pandemic by addressing three key areas.

Mapping employees’ working relationships can help guide leaders’ decisions about post-pandemic work models.

Digital inclusion to help solve grand challenges, meaningful support for Pride Month, and reimagined workspaces.

Reimagined workspaces can enable interactions that foster more meaningful human connections in our work lives.

Practical strategies for hybrid work, linking good intentions to intentional actions, and Daniel Kahneman on “noise.”

The hub-and-spoke model of work offers a middle ground between packed offices and the isolation of working at home.

New hires are at risk of losing the subtly communicated knowledge shared through in-person work.

It benefits both workers and companies when leaders proactively support employees’ mental health and wellness.

It’s time to start revisiting work policies and their implementation as businesses plan a return to shared workspaces.

Innovation can thrive when remote teams feel empowered to share ideas and engage in rigorous debate.

Remote approaches to early-career talent development, tips for less-draining virtual meetings, and overlooked partners to help bridge employee skills gaps.

Research points to five ways organizations can better support early-career employees in a fully remote work environment.

Leaders can make meetings more effective and less fatiguing by incorporating feedback from their teams.

Wayfair’s KeyAnna Schmiedl discusses how culture and inclusion are foundational to organizational learning.

Testing can guide decisions such as who needs to work in an office and what work hours are optimal.

Leaders can take proactive steps to make workers feel more comfortable about going back to in-person work.