Action you can take re: return-to-office directive: CAPE has put together this template letter you can use to send to your MP from your personal email address to express your concerns regarding the recent back-to-office mandate. https://t.co/NlZaqrSM8V #CanLab

People wielding great power & responsibility walk the corridors of #COP27. When I walk the same corridors, what I see is a space of smoke and mirrors.  Today I asked leaders to be real & accountable.  Smoke and mirrors betray the people at the frontline of the climate crisis.

Any input from #fwd50 attendees? #UX #DigitalTransformation

Can we all take a moment to recognize @plpilon’s incredible courage for talking openly about the elephant in the room—the human cost of accelerated transformation—and helping others to do the same? This will save lives and careers. #fwd50

UX classifications in #GC! Need examples of EC-06, IT/CS-03 or equivalent UX roles that: - have no direct reports - are individual contributors Making a business case for career ladders that allow ppl to be senior practitioners, not MGs. #ux #UserExperience #GoC #HR #GCdigital

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Have thoughts about remote work in GC? Fill-out FlexGC questionnaire about return to office, last chance: https://t.co/TRgPkufewk #futureofwork #returntooffice #GC #GoC

One fundamental mistake software design teams make is behaving like they are the main character in their user's life story, and not the other way around. Design as if your user -didn't want to use your product or develop expertise -hasn't thought about your product for months

I know I frequently talk about sacrifice and an ethical dedication to working in the public service but let me be clear: requiring any in-office work is a hard no for me. There will be a massive talent exodus from the IT side of the public service if this happens.

Attended an event - How to help ees #ReturnToWork without too much stress - with 700+ #GC MGs. It was really upsetting. The talk was biased towards in-office work, included many negative stereotypes about remote workers, didn’t present research on human/equity benefits of #WFH.

@steph_percival @sboots And there are more stories of positive impact of remote work surfacing every day

1/2 #DYK? Following the launch of the Federal #2SLGBTQI+ Action Plan, the #GC has now adopted the 2SLGBTQI+ acronym and encourages its use across the federal government as a more inclusive term. The change was in response to 2SLGBTQI+ communities’ call for an updated acronym.

Saving this for myself as a great idea for team building and learning about the inner lives of people we work with. What a beautiful way to connect. #TeamBuilding #empathy #AuthenticLeadership #ReflectivePractice #learning

If you are a public service leader making decisions about Return to Work and Office plans, please read these 2 pieces by your amazing employees @steph_percival & @sboots: https://t.co/Cze0AGCjV4 https://t.co/zebfhp2JSP #GC #FutureOfWork #LeadersGC #HR #hybridwork #remotework

Successful remote work in the public service has been done before the pandemic. But stories like mine are not often heard or seen. I am grateful to all the wonderful leaders who've supported me in my journey and I hope fully remote work will continue to blossom, not diminish.

I've been advocating for remote, region-agnostic work that celebrates and promotes talent across Canada for almost 10 years now. I've had to work so hard to be able to negotiate working on my own terms - remotely.

During the pandemic, I was hired as a Manager of User research at CSPS and am now an Assistant Director of a diverse team spread out across Canada from BC to Nova Scotia.

I was able to continue my career journey as a remote Content Strategy lead, developing content design capacity across an organization with 40,000 employees. This was all prior to the pandemic.

From this point in my career, working remotely was my non-negotiable requirement. For every job I took, I would only accept it under the condition of working remotely.

Following role was as a Learning Architect at the Digital Academy. When considering this opportunity, I explicitly negotiated to work remotely full-time, as this worked best for me from past experiences and at that point in my life, as a young parent.