Museum Home Work (with Survey Results)
A survey reveals that museum workers have mixed views of remote arrangements and often feel that they're coming to the office for no good reason.
Links of the Week: November 19, 2021: Post-Conference-Era Follow-up
My post on museum conferences generated a fair amount of comments. What larger concerns were implicated?
Links of the Week: November 5, 2021: Hybrid Check-in
Everyone's writing about the Great Resignation. Is anyone doing anything about it, besides leaving? And, a survey!
Links of the Week: October 8, 2021: Hybrid Games
Workers forced into office-centered hybrid arrangements are finding that they're returning to … remote work.
Links of the Week: September 17, 2021: The Great Exhausting
The Great Resignation is here, but is there a deeper issue lurking in the museum field?
Automation and museum work, part II: the museum metaverse
Is there another reality where museum workers can leave bad org culture behind?
Links of the Week: August 12, 2021: Workplace Return or Rapture?
What if the get-back-to-the-building museum leaders are the ones risking irrelevance?
What Is "Org Culture" in Museums, Anyway?
Defining organizational culture in cultural organizations can be difficult, which is both its challenge and its potential.
Links of the Week: July 15, 2021: Paradoxes All the Way Down
Museums are adopting an attitude of relentless cautious optimism to mask uncertainty and paradox.
Links of the Week: July 1, 2021: Fear Itself
What about remote work has museum leaders so afraid?
The End of the Museum Worker Silent Majority?
The return-to-workplace push may finally expose the cost of worker silence in museums.
Links of the Week: June 17, 2021: Mindsets, revisited
Museums are full of mindsets, like most organizations. What behaviors are being excused?
Links of the Week: June 10, 2021: Where Will You Work?
Has fear of an empty workplace supplanted promised org humanism and flexibility?
Links of the Week: May 27, 2021: Get Back …
Museums, like many institutions, are pushing for remote workers to come back to the workplace. Why … and how?