Makers 🆚 Managers: The Battle Over Remote Work | Postcard

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Postcards are short current episodes, addressing a topic that currently interests me, host - Heather Smith.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In today's postcard, I share an article that resonated with me, from the Todoist blog post written by Fadeke Adegbuyi.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Makers vs Managers: The Battle Over Remote Work</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Managers want to go back to the office. Employees aren’t so sure.</span></p> <p><a href= "https://blog.doist.com/makers-schedule-remote-work/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">https://blog.doist.com/makers-schedule-remote-work/</span></a></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Makers and managers are locked in a productivity power struggle where the battleground is the calendar and diminished focus and lost hours are what’s at stake. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Both makers and managers, or roughly equivalent to employees and executives, have important roles in the workplace and both schedules serve a different purpose.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">While managers and makers across companies often agree there’s a problem, they’ve simply added band-aid fixes like “No Meeting Tuesdays” or “Work from Home Wednesdays”. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Offices have been built around the needs of managers at the expense of makers; the move to remote work offers a rare opportunity to shift the balance.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Subscribe to the Accounting Apps newsletter here</span> <a href= "http://heathersmithau.com/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">http:// HeatherSmithAU.COM</span></a></p>