Ten years ago, I set up a long assembly line in the conference room with piles of paper. My HR team stuffed enrollment forms, flyers, and brochures in 2,000 envelopes for our upcoming open enrollment. Yes, you read that correctly: 2,000. Not only was this my primary method of communicating benefits to our workforce, but I’ve always been cheap – I refused to pay extra fees for stuffing services so we did it ourselves. For HR, it was a pleasant day spent talking and chatting as we walked around the table zillions of times. For the mailroom, however, it was a different story. I bribed them with lunch.
When I was younger, I always adored George Jetson (and his boy Elroy, daughter Judy, and wife Jane). I was entranced by flying cars, electric housekeepers, and especially how Jane could talk to her mother in a TV set. The famous cartoon aired originally in the 1960s and later in the 1980s. How could the creators have known that someday we’d have the ability to host video conferencing at our computers? They certainly had wise imaginations.
