Even though I don’t have direct staff anymore, I still have several (6) one-on-one meetings on my calendar. One with my boss, two with peers, and three with ex-staff members. Our company asked all the managers to set these up weekly to improve internal communications. However, our CEO is a terrible communicator and we often have to check Twitter or Reddit for updated information on our own company.
Usually we hold these meeting in our lunch area or just at our desks. I typically try to talk about non-work related stuff since we’re a small department and I usually talk to my staff all the time. When we started working from home, these 1:1 meeting were held over the phone with is a very different dynamic. I also started skipping a lot of them since all my staff have become ex-staff. Anyway, I had two 1/2 hour meeting scheduled today and I spent almost 3.5 hours on the phone just catching up. I haven’t talked to anyone at work for about a month so it was good to talk to someone other than family or doctors for once.
Life with chronic diseases 