The Now and Next of Work with Cali Williams Yost

It is a pleasure to host the founder of Flex+Strategy Group, author of the 2004 title, “Work + Life: Finding the Fit That’s Right for You” and Tweak It: Make What Matters to You Happen Every Day in 2013, Cali Williams Yost.

Cali is the world’s leading authority on high performance flexibility. A visionary futurist, strategist, author, and keynote speaker, Yost is the Founder and CEO of the Flex+Strategy Group, a solutions company helping organizations unlock performance and engagement by reimagining how, when and where work is done.

For nearly three decades, Yost has been among the first to foresee many flexible work trends. She’s used those insights to help leaders build dynamic, responsive organizations that attract and retain an engaged, diverse workforce; increase productivity and innovation; enhance employee well-being and respond rapidly to operating disruptions.

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New national research from today’s guest and her firm Flex+Strategy Group (FSG) signals a widening gap between employee and leadership perceptions about flexible work and performance, including what’s happening when employees are onsite.

Based upon a demographically representative sample size of 782 U.S. full-time employed adults, the research is the latest in a series of Flex+Strategy Group studies that have monitored the national progress of issues related to work-life flexibility from the employee point of view since 2006.

Find the report here.

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