Time to get tough with your board!

❌ 74% of managers says they don’t have the influence or resources to make change for employees (Microsoft Work Trend Index).

😒 54% of managers believe that leadership is out of touch with employees.

Leading to stress, churn and burnout.

This week, Joe Palmer, VP of HR at Colt Data Centre Services—who create the ‘magic’ data centres we have all been using to work remotely—explains how he tackled this and what happened as a result.

Timely advice as I have crashed through manic March, via many research interviews, quite a bit of merch (Slack-branded socks anyone?) and a turn at the Economist Innovation at Work Conference. The Economist team said I was ‘vibrant’ 😎.

Next week

The two words we should ban immediately.

See you then!

Christine