What do employees and their offices have in common?
Sustainability in construction is taking many forms, including the de-construction of buildings (like offices) rather than demolition. The “selective removal of materials” from buildings slated for destruction is becoming a requirement in many jurisdictions to divert material from the landfill.
Learning this resonated with me since my father, a teacher and amateur carpenter, spent many summers dis-assembling old homes, recovering materials and contents – the content of some of those homes, wow! – in his summer months.
You were ahead of your time, dad!
What jazzes me is thinking how this applies when there is a re-org. It’s often easiest to eliminate a position and pay someone out rather than figure out how we might re-use them elsewhere.
We forget: everyone is far more than the skills and abilities of their current role.
But as organizations, we don’t usually have insight into how we can re-deploy people because we’ve never mapped everything they could be doing for us.
So maybe we can divert a few people from the unemployment line by mapping the full range of their competencies and skills – including the latent ones – and retain good people for the next stage of our organization.
Sustainability applied to HR.
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