Get Reworked

The last year has given us a lot of baggage to unpack. 2020 saw the rapid adoption of digital workplace tools and a fundamental rework of our concept of how work gets done. Fortunately, Sam Marshall is here to help. Sam has seen a lot in his 20-plus years in the digital workplace. In this episode, he brings some much-needed clarity to our messy reality and unpacks what it all means as we head into...

Employee motivation traditionally took one form: You do X and I pay you Y. This approach worked pretty well, up to a point. But as organizations grow in complexity so too does the work, and what is asked of the workforce. That makes such transactional incentives less effective. "There needs to be … a reason why people participate in that work other than payment," said Rachel Happe, co-founder of T...

In March 2020, legions of workers trudged into the office much like they had been doing for months, years, and even decades in some cases. They went home that evening and haven't been back. Things haven't been the same ever since. Within the short span of days, we undertook a massive experiment in new ways of working and we haven't looked back. In episode 1 of Get Reworked, Reworked editors Mike P...