75% of Workers Say Projects Stall When a Key Colleague Takes PTO. That’s a Leadership Problem

Teams need resiliency, not one indispensable employee.

EXPERT OPINION BY SCOTT HUTCHESON, AUTHOR, BIOHACKING LEADERSHIP

Labor Day weekend is supposed to create a little distance between people and their jobs. For many workers, however, even a long holiday weekend comes with a calculation: What will pile up while I am gone, and what will stop moving without me?

Zoom’s new Out of Office Index suggests that concern is widespread. In a Morning Consult survey of 1,000 U.S. knowledge workers, 75 percent said work tied to a key teammate stalls for at least a........

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