As companies debate whether or not to bring employees back to the office full-time, they scramble to refine their remote work policies. One company they could learn a lot from: Google. Chief executive Sundar Pichai recently announced that due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Google would extend its work from home policy until at least July 2021. That's a telling decision considering that Google quite possibly has access to some of the richest data sets in the world. Among that data is research the company published last year. A team surveyed over 5,000 Google employees and held focus groups with about a hundred more in order to better understand the impact of distributed work. They focused on measuring: -Well-being -Performance -Connectedness -Productivity Google came up with several recommendations. I couldn't help but notice how many of these practices are founded on emotional intelligence: the ability to identify, understand, and manage emotions. (Read more in today's column.) #EmotionalIntelligence #google #remotework #workfromhome #workfromanywhere #management #leadership #eqapplied #MakeEmotionsWorkForYouNotAgainstYou …see more