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Given the volume and nature of reactions to this post it’s clear that business leaders are divided on this subject. I expect this makes it difficult for people who are early in their careers to figure out who to believe, who to follow. In the end, of course, it comes down to business performance. So…if your business is 100% remote or hybrid and smashing it - blowing targets, profitable (or ahead of plan to be), stock price booming etc - then, to my original post, ignore me, stay at home, you’re clearly in good shape. In fact, why not implement a 4-day week…? For other companies where performance and execution can improve, the macro can be used as a perpetual excuse, or we can take another look at fundamentals of work life and how we work together… 1) Slack/Zoom ≠ Teamwork. Companies are a collaboration of people contributing to a common goal. 1+1=3…not a group of disparate individuals. “I’m more productive at home” misses the whole point of “building a company”. Teaming - sharing knowledge, learning, problem solving, building trust - is fluid and constant. WFH is for sole traders, genuinely remote workers (> 2 hours from the team), and a tool for occasional creative focus. 2) Careers are built with active/present mentors. Smart, knowledgable and talented people have an obligation and responsibility to be physically available as a source of wisdom for others. People listen to the conversations of others and learn from them. People need answers to questions today, not ineffectively via Slack (because the majority of communication is non-verbal) or via calls in 3 days time. 3) “A grand don’t come for free” (per The Streets). No-one owes anybody anything. We all have to earn it. We can all be replaced with people who contribute to the team more and enable it to perform better. 4) Delayed gratification is a thing. Most of the time WFH is just a short-term hit of relatively pleasurable convenience. A successful and fulfilling life is about doing hard things, working through adversity, and playing the long game. 5) Pulling together to improve a company, a nation, an economy, the world, is a moral obligation for all citizens. Elon’s point about “laptop classes living in la-la-land” - i.e. it is hypocritical (and morally wrong) to work from home while expecting service workers to show up in person, is a fair statement. And with that I'm going to jump on the quiet train home, which I admit is nice...

Ultimately, a business is only as good as the people in it, and ours are truly committed.

Next week will mark the three month point of me starting work at Skills Street, working towards a more broad understanding of exactly what we are lacking, what we need more of and how we can start to do things differently to piece together the South #Yorkshire regional skills agenda. My thoughts (and motivations) so far ... - We consistently compete for people, regardless of sector: Whilst business capability and expertise is developing, and is absolutely on show, the competition for 'highly skilled' workers will only increase. - Passive progression: We aren't investing, at the level needed, to help existing employees to understand future roles and opportunities in industry. - We have to keep good people here, recognising talent to attract more talent! Are we truly reaching our potential - the skilled workforce is often there but remains 'untapped talent'. Perhaps the most important observation, collaboration across all the above (#recruitment) can often be limited or hidden. We are turning the corner, reflecting on fantastic sessions and meetings this week with Mark Cocken & Alex Reynolds at UTC Sheffield City Centre, Nikki Jones & Rebecca Blackburn at the quarterly AMRC Training Centre Industry Advisory Board meeting and Rachael Dickens and specialist training teams at The Sheffield College - it is critically important that we join the dots to make our region competitive. An opportunity to do exactly that, is here, talk to us about your part in the jigsaw - https://lnkd.in/eXzgXy_A P.S. If this post was a hashtag it would probably look like #businessgrowthstrategy + #peopleandculture × #talentacquisition + #cpd ÷ #collaborationforchange = #betterfuture

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THE SOONER WE ACCEPT THE CURRENT REALITY - THE SOONER WE CAN MAKE A BETTER REALITY HS2 I’ve been travelling to London for business and pleasure for over 25 years. As a business we Riqueza Group had a flat in Fulham for a couple of years Pre the pandemic. I’m really not sure how excited or motivated I am by arriving in London 15 minutes earlier from the North West of England (and that’s assuming I will be early depending upon where the train stops in London). I can see the many “Champagne Socialists” enraged by HS2 and the potential withdrawal of parts of the route, but honestly - I’d much rather have a stronger, more reliable mobile phone signal than potentially arrive in London 15% earlier. THE NORTHERN POWERHOUSE There isn’t one. Maybe one day there could be one I guess? One of the North’s larger cities doesn’t even want to be part of England, boo’s its own national anthem; two of the other larger cities find collaboration almost impossible through footballing and county rivalry; one of our coolest northern cities is closer to Scotland than the other larger cities so geographically collaborating becomes a bit tougher. There is too much conflict; too much disparity in goals and motivation. The person running the biggest and most powerful northern city (in my opinion) should actually be in the running for Prime Minister, a really good, relatable guy. Many of the champagne socialists who seem vocal about levelling up and empowering the north would be better off building a more meaningful, national dialogue, talking up the opportunities to work together as a nation rather than hitting London and the south around the head with a bat! The more divisive their language is about our country, the more it’s becoming a self fulfilling prophecy. My Wife and I lived in Cambs and then Kent for a combined 9 years, we loved it down there and have made genuine, lifelong friends. Anyway, I just thought I’d touch on a couple of conversation points from current affairs. Let’s work together, actually work together and let’s focus on real issues and real collaboration rather than virtue signalling for 3 mins of fame. Have a lovely day out there ❤️😎 Neil Rustage Thomas Ryan Dean Topham - Finance for SME's Katie Forrester Mel Ellis Alex Dale Riqueza Business Solutions #reality #together #champagne #socialist