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?
Links of the Week: May 20, 2021: Reflections of …
A couple of people—and orgs—I follow have been in a remembering mood.
TMPR: A New Acronym for Museum Workers (Part 1: Time)
The first in a series of four posts about Time, Money, People, and Resources in museum work and in museum workers' lives.
Museum Org Culture Is Causing a Mental Health Crisis
Museums make mental health resources available to workers but ignore how their own org culture contributes to the problem.
Last Exit to Interview
Can museums do better with exit interviews? An immodest proposal.
How to Make Museum Work Flexible, not Fauxible
Flexible work is not just schedules and policies. It's roles, skills, mindsets, and more. Otherwise it's fake flexibility: fauxibility.
Against the Museum Smartocracy
Museums aren't just meritocracies. They are organizations that identify with smarts above all else. (Yes, even money.)
Do Museum Workers Need a Demon of Their Own?
Is a deal with sinister forces necessary for museum people to get their work done?
Museum Human's Top Five Themes of 2020
What throughlines did Museum Human's posts traverse over the course of the year?
Museums Must Pivot Back to People
Museums have been pivoting to post-normal workplaces. What else are they pivoting to?
I, Jargoneer
Museum workers are done with buzzwords. So how do we move from words to real impact?
Going Rogue, Revisited
Is ignoring the org structure the best way to make change or just more safe, performative rebellion?