Maybe you haven’t seen TLC’s reality show Hoarding: Buried Alive, but you probably know a thing or two about hoarders and the chaotic states of their homes. Now here is something you most likely know nothing about: information hoarding. We have so much accessible information today, but we too often try to hold on to [...]
“Work is no longer a place – it’s something we do.” With this striking new definition, we kicked off a fascinating chat with workplace technology specialist David Shaw that covered productive office spaces, introverts vs. extroverts, meeting rules and more. The world of work has changed dramatically, yet our physical work environments still suffer from [...]
This week’s episode of The Work Talk Show features Dan Martell, CEO and founder of Clarity and an angel investor in multiple ventures. Dan is extremely passionate about how we spend our time. With a strong entrepreneurial streak, Martell has now set his sights on solving a problem that’s a challenge to many – how to [...]
Please welcome Caleb Parker, our latest regular contributor to the Workshifting blog. This is Caleb’s first post. I know what you’re thinking: “How do you pronounce that? Bee-yoo?” Seriously though, maybe you thought I meant Bring Your Own Device (BYOD). That’s the big buzzword everyone’s talking about lately when referring to the mobile workforce. BYOD is [...]
Last week was one of the toughest I had faced in a while. I had a series of work presentations; my daughter came down with the stomach virus that’s going around; I had to take a work trip up to San Francisco; and the big one – my husband went in for a major surgery [...]
As the world transitions to the cloud era, the convergence of private, enterprise clouds and public cloud services offers exciting new possibilities to IT teams and businesses. At Citrix Synergy in October, 2012, we once again got to peer into the future and see how technology, and specifically cloud services, are changing our (work and [...]
Today we have a guest post from Jessie White. Jessie is the Princess of Organizing Chaos at Misfit, Inc. She currently lives in Vancouver but in the past year has Workshifted from England, New York City, Portland, Italy, Malawi, Ireland and Thailand. Misfit Inc. is entering its fifth year of life. We have five full-time [...]
Our devices can now notify us of the most minimal of happenings. I’m amazed when I see friends’ and co-workers’ phones pop up with the latest likes, pins, posts, nudges and nags. Add in the automatic notification of emails, tweets and other social media updates, and I wonder how some people ever do anything but [...]
This is the second half of a two-part post. You can read part one here. Be a good scout. Sometimes one kid has to be dropped off at school a bit early, or another has to tag along to his brother’s hockey practice with a sack dinner because he’s too young to be left alone. [...]
So, about a week ago, I was 5 minutes from producing a premium Webinar, which we do many of at my company. And the thought occurred to me … Here I am, based in New York City but working in Stratford-upon-Avon at the moment, about to produce a premium (meaning “not free”) webinar where over [...]





