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Navigation of Employee Experience During a Pandemic
After four months of quarantine, businesses are slowly reopening, and people are starting to head outside cautiously. Some workers have...
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A Flashback to Lockdown Day 41: Designing Life Around the Inconvenient Truth
"A few years ago, during one of the periodic booms and bursts that are part of business as usual in Silicon Valley, my colleagues and I...
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Living with the Virus: Fake Nails
I've been reading and hearing that until a vaccine for COVID-19 is made available, we have to learn to live with the virus. At first I...
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Like Me, Have You Been Frustrated Lately?
Since the beginning of the lockdown, what continues to frustrate me is how humans are still not willing to change certain disadvantageous...
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Last Day of Lockdown: DIY Washable Masks with Pocket for Filter
Let's all do our part! Wear a mask, stay safe and keep others safe too. I am part of thee design team of Havas Ortega called h2, and I'd...
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The Lockdown, Day 56: Humans Working From Home
There was something about everybody being home, and working from home, that made us open ourselves up to our co-workers and vice versa....
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The Lockdown, Day 28: Easter Sunday
Days 25-27 were spent on reflection and rest, as work went on pause to observe the Holy Week. "When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's...
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The Lockdown, Day 22-24: Hit Pause
"The 4-7-8 breathing technique, also known as “relaxing breath,” involves breathing in for 4 seconds, holding the breath for 7 seconds,...
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The Lockdown, Day 21: Mental Health in the Workplace– Part 1
Mental health is never an easy topic to discuss, yet it should be talked about— especially in the workplace. I am not a mental health...
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The Lockdown, Day 20: Thank You
To all the doctors, nurses, health workers, and staff saving lives and risking theirs, thank you. To all the security personnel...
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The Lockdown, Day 19: Pets = Sanity
This is a short post. It's mostly a shoutout to all the pets who are keeping their hoomans sane! How has it been working at home, 24/7...
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The Lockdown, Day 18: Good Omens
It must be a psychological effect of this pandemic, but coming from restoring so much faith in humanity just the other day, my optimism...
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The Lockdown, Day 17: Music Makes the World Go Round
from U2's Instagram With (almost) the whole world on lockdown and everyone asked to #StayHome to save lives, people are finding more and...
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The Lockdown, Day 16: So Much Faith in Humanity
Anxiety is kicking in. Mostly because I want to do so much more for the frontliners and those that are greatly affected by the biggest...
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The Lockdown, Day 15: What is This New Normal?
Social distancing. Work from home. Extended quarantine. Total lockdown. The past few weeks have changed lives so quickly and so...
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The Lockdown, Week 2: The YinYang
The theme of my week 2 was really all about re-evaluating almost everything in my life. I've been having trouble sleeping as I try to...
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The Lockdown, Week 1: To be Agile is to be (more) Human
I don't even know where to begin. I called in on Sunday night, 15 March to file for sick leave for Monday, 16 March because I was so...
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We Are All Humans at Work
"Managing is not a series of mechanical tasks but a set of human interactions." - Harvard Business Review. I would say the same about...
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Existentialist Introvert (and cat mom) in Advertising
"If you're not aware of other people's preferences, you think you're being kind and understanding while bulldozing over their feelings."...
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The Soft Power of Introverts
An introvert's survival guide in a world of extroverts. "Have an inner sense of entitlement to be who you are." "Once you’re comfortable...
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