World of Work
I haven't posted for a while, but this article caught my attention. The lid is off 'Pandora's Box' and now AI bots are flooding social media platforms, which, of course, does not come as a surprise to anyone. In this case 'X' is an apparent testing ground for things to come. The worry? [...]
The Pandemic might be almost forgotten, but the dramatic shift in workplace norms it created has let to an unprecedented decline in tenancy rates for office and retail spaces. Whilst the advent of on line shopping gave rise to the slow decline in traditional retail sales, it has been accelerated by the absence of [...]
In recent years a lot has been written about undiagnosed burnout and the consequences for the employee and their business. In addition, it is often the case that leaders are expected to manage the workload and well being of their teams, but just 'suck it up' when they themselves might be showing all the [...]
After the 'great quit' many good employees are looking at options and taking part in the great search for better opportunities. It is nearly the end of 2023 and, post pandemic, it seems that more and more good people are looking for jobs in keeping with their career aspirations and work life balance expectations. [...]
Saturday, the 30th of October. I checked out of the big house and moved back to Batu Ferringhi and the apartment that had kindly been arranged for me by one of my ex staff. I also snuck back into the hotel to weigh my suitcases at the loading bay, as I was concerned about [...]
It was Wednesday, the 20th of October. I had finished work on Friday the 15th, the removal company had come to collect everything on Saturday and I was now waiting to secure my certificate of entry (COE) for travel to Thailand to take up my new job. The night before, I had some very [...]
It was August 2021 and we were still in the tail end of the pandemic. However it seemed as though the hotel I was managing would be able to re-open again in early September. We had been closed since the 12th of May. The vaccine roll out in Malaysia was taking hold. The government [...]
This is a cautionary tale, but it does have a happy ending. It was early October 2020. In spite of the odds we had just opened the hotel I was managing, mid pandemic in fact. (The picture above is of the first paying guests). People thought we were crazy to try and open, but [...]
This post was originally written a few years ago by Lisa Earle McLeod, a millennial and cum laude graduate of Boston University, but the importance of the subject has not diminished in any way since that time. If anything it is even more relevant in 2019. "I’ve worked in corporate America, administrative offices, advertising agencies, and [...]
Work is well under way with bio drain construction along the eastern boundary of the hotel. We are constructing a 'grade A' sewage treatment plant for all the buildings on site and in the immediate area. This is a treatment that delivers low level pathogen 'clear water'. it will mix with a combination of [...]
