​   Workplace Alert: 

   Disconnection - Bad for Your Brand's Health ​

• “The average American spends about 2.5 times more time connected with media than engaged with the real world.” -- Untethered, by Sini Ninkovic

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• “U.S. adults spend 11 hours and 27 minutes, per day, connected to media.” -- Neilson Research, 2019  (In 2020, during Covid, Neilson Research reported an increase of 1 hour per day.) 

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• The Untold Side of Remote Working:  Isolation & Lack of Career Progression":  "Why would IBM, who gained nearly $2 billion selling off their office real estate after implementing remote working, bring their workers back to the office? Why would Google, who boasts one of the world’s most progressive work cultures, adamantly reject telecommuting? -- Forbes, 9/27/21

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• Silicon Valley Companies are Rethinking In-Office Perks for a Post-Pandemic Era:  "Now, as the pandemic has forced these same companies to work from home and rethink their in-office culture, some will have to rethink their perks strategy as well. And that might have all sorts of repercussions, good or bad." -- Fortune, 7/3/20

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• The New Silicon Valley Perks:  Child Care, Financial Planning and Therapy:  "Instead of using food and foosball tables to keep workers at the office as long as possible, tech companies now seek to offer benefits for work-life balance…  Facebook, Inc… said in May that it expects much of its workforce to remain remote on a permanent basis…" -- The Wall Street Journal, 1/29/21

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