A brief History of meetings. Formal structured meetings have been around from the start of civilisation. There is evidence going back over 3,000 years to the Grecian agora (markets) where ‘conversations’ between groups of buyers, sellers and co-workers took place in...
Professional Contracting in Ireland – June 2021
The Research, Irelands Project Economy The Grey Matters Network was established in 2015. Before that, there was no one place for Ireland’s high skilled independent professionals to come together. This also meant that there was no one place organisations could go to...
Before making any decision on new ways of working …
The idea of hybrid/blended working has alot of positives however there are concerns to think how to manage. Feedback and surveys say the areas that have been impacted negatively by remote working has been training of new hires (graduates & trainees), informal chats that inspire ideas/solutions as well as spontaneous brainstorming and innovation. There is also concern those that who work remotely may be overlooked for promotion, “out of sight out of mind” particularly women as there is an expectation that women may take up remote/hybrid working more than men.