Remote Working

This week Alex is joined by guest Ellie Gill. After a recent post on LinkedIn around the advantages of remote working, Alex and Ellie started a conversation about the disadvantages. In this interview the ladies discuss the downside of remote working, from not being involved in the company culture to missing out on the shared experiences that come from working every day with your colleagues. KEY TAKEAWAYS Ellie talks about how the new trend in remote working may affect the younger generation, such as missing out on how to behave in a professional environment. Alex discusses how working in an office can lead to a sense of belonging and help you to align better with the organisational culture. Ellie talks about her early career in sales, working in a high paced high pressure environment, and how the comradery with her co workers helped her prevail. Ellie and Alex discuss the difficulties with onboard new employees in remote companies. BEST MOMENTS “Working with people on a video call just isn’t the same as being there in the business environment.” “Working in an office based environment early in your career can help shape your career trajectory.” “People who work remotely haven’t got colleagues to help them when they have a bad day, they haven’t got that shared experience, which can develop you in so many ways.” EPISODE RESOURCES Alex’s Website Alex’s Instagram Alex’s Linkedin Alex’s email ABOUT THE HOST Alexandra Stacey is fascinated about value and our perceptions of value. She undertook an MSC in Strategic Marketing and Customer Experience Management with the University of Buckingham’s Business School and her dissertation included how value is experienced. Her own life experience includes being a parent, marketer, teacher, project and events manager and musician. She is the founder of AS Insights. This is a business that helps organisations improve through uncovering their stakeholder’s experiences interpreting them through behavioural theories. PODCAST DESCRIPTION In today’s world businesses and organisations are able to deliver things much more quickly at the touch of a button than 15 years ago. And our competitors can too. We are in danger of escalating journeys down the wrong track and being too far gone to retrieve them. Wouldn’t it be so much better to do the right thing right first time instead of becoming very efficient at doing the wrong thing? Well this is what this podcast is about. It is about optimising value in your customer or employee or stakeholder experience in different manifestations. You get to understand how we think and behave in different scenarios and can apply them to your own purchasing, sales, recruitment, team-building, customer retention and audience perception management. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.