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One of the biggest buzzwords in work culture in the COVID era has been “flexibility.” Workers demand it, and employers are under constant pressure to provide it. Most readers are surely familiar with the classic COVID-era pillar of flexibility—remote work—even if they haven’t personally been able to enjoy the arrangement. A New Way of Working […]
In undergrad, Kristen Kenny studied teaching and business management. She was still considering her options one summer when she started working as a Recruiting Coordinator at Fidelity Investments. Although she had found the role via a temp agency, Kenny would soon find out that there was nothing temporary about her serving in HR. Suffice it […]
For many companies, year-end and/or shortly after the new year is a time set aside on the corporate calendar for annual evaluations. Employee evaluations should not only put employees on notice of performance problems and provide feedback for their continued development and growth but also demonstrate the employer’s efforts to help low performers and challenge […]
As the global economy continues to flirt with recession, many employers have already begun letting large numbers of employees go. This trend is particularly evident in the tech industry, where companies like Google, Amazon, and Microsoft (among others) have laid off more than 70,000 workers in the past year. And that’s just one industry. The […]
The Biden administration recently pulled back some investing restrictions companies were tied to. Now, businesses can look at the environmental and social implications of investing in a particular fund, choosing whether to put money into areas such as fossil fuel production. Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing means looking at how companies behave and how […]
Today’s employees are living and working in a much more fluid environment. With flexible work schedules now increasingly common, the traditional 9 to 5 has almost become a thing of the past. But while the recent shift has brought certain benefits, it has also exacerbated many of the problems that already existed before this “new […]
Very few things remain static in the business world, and the character and personality of the collective workforce is not one of them. Different generations have different lived experiences, expectations, and values, all of which contribute to what drives them in the workplace. According to a recent survey from Qualtrics, two key ambitions are central […]
A certain archetype typically comes to mind when people think of a leader: confident, assertive, determined, in charge, etc. Those characteristics are great in many situations but not necessarily when they lead to toxic conflict between leaders in an organization. While most companies have a single leader in the form of a CEO, many companies […]
2022 was a turbulent time for the workforce, as employers, employees, and HR leaders alike had to cope with a series of changes to both the economic and the social landscape. The first half of the year saw unemployment rates dip toward a 50-year low, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, while the Federal […]
Quiet quitting, bai lan, and anti-work are some of the trends currently demonstrating that employees are unhappy with poor workplace cultures that fail to keep them engaged. To get ahead of these problematic trends, HR leaders and organizations must build and cultivate cultures that prioritize belonging – making employees feel welcomed, known, included, supported, and […]