How Marginalized Workers Can Make the Most of Remote Work

Excerpt from wired.com

Whether you’re hybrid or at the home office full-time, here’s what you can do to focus your energy, connect meaningfully, and use flexibility to your advantage.

SO MUCH OF what marginalized people go through at work comes down to the workplace environment: how people in the office get along with one another, who asks whom out for lunch, who gets along with whom, and so on. Unfortunately, even if you’re objectively the most skilled and the most experienced person on your team, if you’re being marginalized because of your race, your gender, or your disability status, there’s nothing you can do to keep the cliquishness of that culture from seeping into your work and preventing you from doing your best.

But in the early months of 2020, much of that changed. Many of us suddenly went from working in offices all the time and having to navigate the politics of being seen, being a superstar, and making a show of ourselves and our work around others, to working at home, quietly, behind a screen, and only being seen by others for Zoom meetings and conference calls that were prescheduled. The pandemic threw a wrench into office cultures around the world, and some companies have permanently given up their office space. Others have used this moment to drastically rethink remote and hybrid work possibilities. The bright spot of this tragedy may be that there is a little more empathy for the worker. Or at least a little more flexibility.

 

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