Honesty Is the Best Policy with Vijay Pattisapu
This week’s guest is Vijay Pattisapu.
Welcome back to Career Can Do! Today Mary Ann Faremouth is talking to Vijay Pattisapu, an employment attorney at Gomez Law with his finger on the pulse of the New Work World. They discuss how to navigate working from home, the return to work, and maintaining good working relationships with your colleagues and management.
Keep it clean, keep it honest, and keep it real.
Accountability, transparency, and communication are more important than ever now that people are working from home and things are more fluid. Vijay notes that by the time he sees people things have generally gone pretty far south, and so this chance to talk about preventative measures is welcome – and the best one is open communication about the reality of your own situation, especially when you’re working at home. Vijay says that getting things in writing is even better than having a discussion and Mary Ann reminds us that if it’s not in writing it doesn’t exist!
Authenticity is a scarce and precious resource – Vijay and Mary Ann talk about the importance of being honest in your dealings with your company and with your employees – from how you’re spending your time when working at home, to how honest to be in interviews and on your resume. Honesty is always the best policy.
They wrap up their conversation with a discussion about the changes covid is making in workplaces – mandatory vaccinations, new legislation that may be providing new rights people should be aware of, and whether or not you really need to go back to the office. It’s a challenging area to navigate for both employees and the companies they work for!
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“What is it that we’re doing at work and how do we want to do it and for how long, with what terms and why? It’s a great time to be thinking, as an employer or an employee about these things.”
Career Can Do is a new podcast from award-winning author, professional career coach, and training consultant Mary Ann Faremouth. Mary Ann talks to experts, employers, and job seekers about what the new work world looks like and how you can thrive in these ever-changing circumstances. Tune in every other week for straight talk about remote work, office politics, first impressions, the changing jobscape, and more.
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