Kyla

economic justice warrior, impact investor & capital strategist, aspiring digital nomad, certified nap witch, amateur sommelier, dog mama

[Kyla @kyla_sc]

If it’s easier and better for people to work at home than going into the office, then they’re not going to come in #FutureOfWork
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[Kyla @kyla_sc]

The big thing about the workplace now is enabling flexibility. It’s about enabling the individual to work how they want to work #FutureOfWork

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[Kyla @kyla_sc]

We have to get beyond the conversation about how many days a week people are going to work in person. Instead, let’s talk about, when they are there, what are the things that you need to give them to help them do their work better? #FutureOfWork

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[Kyla @kyla_sc]

The tools that we would now call spreadsheets were used on colonial plantations in America and the West Indies to measure and optimize productivity. https://t.co/02iHeM9Zfy

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Workers Now Spend Two Full Days a Week on Email and in Meetings. “People feel quite overwhelmed, a sense of feeling like they have two jobs, the job they were hired to do, but then they have this other job of communicating, coordinating and collaborating” https://t.co/pgViz2SZSk

[Kyla @kyla_sc]

When we talk about people working for companies eight hours a day, are they productive throughout the day? #futureofwork https://t.co/rTi3t0LEEu

[Kyla @kyla_sc]

“#burnout is a systemic issue, you can’t meditate your way out of a 40-hour workweek without child care” #futureofwork #selfcare https://t.co/6jii6gCXWa

[Kyla @kyla_sc]

Women feel more in control of the weather than they do the laws governing them. 65% say “New legislation and policies that are being passed do not advance women’s rights.” https://t.co/CEbIoLzxUZ via @theSkimm

[Kyla @kyla_sc]

“What people really want is flexibility to fit work around their life.” #FutureOfWork #fourdayweek
https://t.co/ZEKPY7a8N2

[Kyla @kyla_sc]

“Theres no longer any reason why the bulk of the population should suffer this deprivation; only a foolish asceticism, usually vicarious, makes us continue to insist on work in excessive quantities now that the need no longer exists”

[Kyla @kyla_sc]

Without a considerable amount of leisure a man is cut off from many of the best things. https://t.co/A7KBxwHxjH

[Kyla @kyla_sc]

Without a considerable amount of leisure a man is cut off from many of the best things. https://t.co/A7KBxwHxjH

[Kyla @kyla_sc]

When people switched from a 5-day work week to a 4-day work week, the % of those getting fewer than 7 hours of sleep/night dropped from 42.6% to 14.5% #4dww #futureofwork https://t.co/KeWtAS6aGa

[Kyla @kyla_sc]

“Our brains process interpersonal rejection in the same place as we do physical pain” https://t.co/86Jwifh27X

[Kyla @kyla_sc]

employee productivity more than doubled when meetings were reduced by 40% #futureofwork

https://t.co/jVHbnFih07 via @ESSENCE

[Kyla @kyla_sc]

Could #ChatGPT finally be the death of cover letters? “Cover letters were literally that, right? You would write a résumé and you had a piece of paper that was a cover to the résumé because you mailed it in.” Why are we still doing this? https://t.co/giRHFF3VDE

[kate @whoiskatrin]

Time it took to reach 1 million users:

Netflix - 3.5 years
Facebook - 10 months
Spotify - 5 months
Instagram - 2.5 months
ChatGPT - 5 days

[Kyla @kyla_sc]

“The number of U.S. workers opting to become digital nomads rose 100% between 2021 and 2022” ⁦@worklife_news⁩ #futureofwork https://t.co/gevp85w18N

[Kyla @kyla_sc]

“Remote workers right now are getting a taste of freedom, and they’re happy with the way it feels” ⁦@worklife_news⁩ https://t.co/gevp85w18N

[Kyla @kyla_sc]

If your story isn’t helping you, work to rehearse a new story instead.

Because it’s our narrative that determines who we will become. ⁦@ThisIsSethsBlog⁩ #newyear2023 https://t.co/DLZLb52Osl

[Kyla @kyla_sc]

Employees don’t need to be in 1/3 of meetings they attend. women are more reluctant than men to decline invitations https://t.co/lKp21Hgdcd