Designing a values-centered search process. — As more and more companies are acknowledging the realities of how systemic racism has been baked into their organizational practices, they are looking at their HR structures and processes and asking themselves how they might operate differently. When it comes to hiring new employees, these questions become: How might centering…

A four-session course about the Why & the How — It was five years ago, in my work as Chief Operating Officer and then co-CEO of Fractured Atlas, that I was first introduced to race-based caucusing as part of our anti-racism, anti-oppression work. As a white man in leadership roles, I personally found participating in our monthly white caucus/affinity group…

Tuesday, April 27 — As workplaces move to re-open, it’s not just be a matter of “un-flipping” the remote workplace switch from last March. On Tuesday, April 27, a whole host of amazing and awesome humans are convening in conversation to discuss challenging questions like: How can I maintain a sense of community, connection…

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A Company’s Duty of Care — This year I’m keenly aware of when my birthday falls. Why you ask? Because, this year, my birthday coincides with the U.S. federal Election Day: November 3. It feels like I’m getting hourly reminders of just how few days remain between now and then. …

Someone recently asked me, “When do you think we can start pushing our teams to achieve pre-pandemic performance levels again, I mean, it’s been five months?” This past March in North America a giant remote work experiment began for many as an Adrenaline-fueled sprint. Organizations raced to get workers set…

Questions, Tools, and Approaches to Consider — As a companion piece to our “How to Transition to a Virtual Workplace Overnight,” we recorded a Work. Shouldn’t. Suck. podcast episode with people who work in, and manage, entirely virtual teams and organizations. We asked them: If you had to transition to this kind of workplace quickly, how would…

The question that I’m increasingly asked nowadays (and something the team at Fractured Atlas who helped manage our own transition have been discussing) is: now that we’re an entirely virtual organization, having evolved into it over 4–5 years, what if we had to do again, overnight? Our planning and transition…

An Interview with its Designers — by Tim Cynova, Co-CEO & Chief Operating Officer at Fractured Atlas; Principal, Work. Shouldn’t. Suck. A few years ago, the Fractured Atlas People team began an ambitious project lead by Jillian Wright and Pallavi Sharma, and greatly aided by our colleague Nicola Carpenter. They set out to workshop a concept…