More Workplace Stories
- Our office tried a new hybrid meeting format with half the team in person and half remote. The audio kept cutting out, and somehow the in-person half ended up just texting the remote half updates instead.
- Our department got new standing desks, promising better posture and energy throughout the day. Most of us just use them as very tall surfaces to lean on while still slouching, more or less as usual.
- Our team decided to try a walking meeting instead of sitting in the conference room, hoping it would spark better ideas. We got genuinely good ideas, along with three sets of tired legs and one sunburn.
- Our office tried a silent brainstorming session where everyone wrote ideas on sticky notes instead of talking. It produced twice as many usable ideas as our usual meetings, and half the arguments.
- Our team decided to try a new software tool that promised to streamline our whole workflow in one week. It took a full month just to learn, and we're still not entirely sure it's actually faster than before.
- The company's new expense reporting software promised a five-minute process. My first submission took forty-five minutes and three separate attempts, mostly spent hunting for a receipt category that simply didn't exist.