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SWOOP Chat - Mercy Health
When you’re wearing a mask, goggles, full-face shield, gown and gloves and you’re busy trying to save lives, probably the last thing on your mind is checking-in on the latest communication updates from work on your mobile phone, no matter their importance.
Working from home – data shows we’re adapting and staying positive
There's no doubting 2020 has been a tough year, which makes it perhaps even more surprising that research from SWOOP Analytics has found staff sentiment at work was far more positive than negative during the first six months of the global COVID-19 pandemic.
Working From Home: Are You Overworked, Overwhelmed or Overjoyed?
As we settle into our new normal, a plethora of survey-based research addressing productivity gains or losses has found those working from home are experiencing a range of emotions.
SWOOP Chat with ANZ Bank
ANZ Bank shares its experience using Microsoft Teams and Yammer to keep employees connected and collaborating during the COVID-19 pandemic. ANZ explains how data from SWOOP Analytics has increased engagement from executive leaders on Yammer, allowing leaders to build genuine relationships and trust across the organisation.
How Network Analytics Can Help Us Avoid Digital Fatigue
The working from home (WFH) mandate has inspired a love-hate relationship in many of us. What we lose in our daily commutes, we gain in digital fatigue. Too many ZOOM meetings, too much time online, too many demands are all common complaints. I previously wrote about digital overload, noting activity levels alone do not indicate overload.
SWOOP Chat with Jessica Lipnack
Jessica Lipnack is the author of Virtual Teams, a book written in 1997 but one that describes how most people are working during the COVID-19 crisis. Jessica and SWOOP Chief Scientist Dr Laurence Lock Lee discuss how to keep teams productive while working virtually and the new challenges facing leaders around the world.
One Bright Spot in COVID-19: The Rise of Self-Directed Teams
Those of you struggling with working from home (WFH) may have some doubts about this, but bear with me. If I asked you “who is in your team?” could you answer easily? Or would your answer be “well that depends ... do you mean our whole department? The people I work with the most? Which team do you mean? I’m on multiple teams.”
Measuring Our Way Back to a ‘New Normal’
Much has already been written about the new normal, when the world transitions back from COVID-19. Predictions include how workplaces will include higher proportions of virtual work, which will be no doubt be welcomed in the context of a plunging economy which forces companies to do more with less. Others suggest an even stronger "people-first" focus, with HR guru Josh Bersin calling COVID-19 the biggest thing ever to happen to employee engagement and the start of a big reset in the way we work.
COVID-19 and Working From Home: An Unprecedented Research Opportunity
Have you ever wanted to better understand how productive you, your team and your organization really are when it comes to collaboration? If ever there was a time to research the effectiveness of how an organization is collaborating, it’s now. For those of you who have undertaken any experimental research, you will appreciate how hard it is to undertake a large-scale controlled experiment.