Robert Drury's Blog – November 2017 Archive (4)

Working from home: a blessing and a curse

There are huge numbers of studies available which look at the benefits of allowing your work force to have periods of remote working i.e. workers who are able to operate remotely from a central location:

91% of people who work at home feel more productive then when they’re in the office (1)
50% less resignations when employees are allowed to work from home (2)
30% of people accomplish more in less time when they telecommute (3)
82% of…

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Added by Robert Drury on November 24, 2017 at 12:00pm — 1 Comment

Are some people too good to hire for your business?

I recently came across a story of a product manager who had come from an agile software startup with ten employees and they were interviewing for new positions and one of the businesses that they had spoken to was a software business with about one hundred employees.

The potential new employer was operating a waterfall delivery approach but making a concerted effort to move to agile, to the point where they had an in-house agile coach to support the business in the…

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Added by Robert Drury on November 10, 2017 at 8:00am — No Comments

Do you know what it is that you want before you start recruiting?

You’ve gone to the effort of writing a job description, creating some online adverts or engaging a recruiter to find you someone, but have you really thought through who your business needs?

"Of course” I hear you cry. “Why would we bother doing all those things if we didn’t know what we needed to recruit for?”…

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Added by Robert Drury on November 10, 2017 at 7:00am — 1 Comment

Ask yourself why someone wants to work for you

Following the recent purchase of my last company I’ve been spending a bit of time talking to other businesses about working with them and it’s been quite surprising how much the businesses have focused on what I can do for them and not what they can do for me.

Yes, if you’re looking to hire someone to come and do some work for you, absolutely you need to find out if they can do the job. For me…

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Added by Robert Drury on November 3, 2017 at 8:00am — 1 Comment