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Today’s labor market has been trending positive, with 339,000 jobs added in May, but coming out of the pandemic, employees are reevaluating their priorities and seeking more fulfillment in their professional and personal lives. In a Greenhouse survey of 1,500 employees last year, nearly half of all respondents reported rejecting job offers after negative interview […]
While the stress of the holiday season has passed, many frontline workers still face challenging situations during each shift—and it’s getting worse. A recent survey found that 70% of frontline workers think customers have become more hostile, with more than half (59%) experiencing conflicts daily. Despite the uptick in hostile situations, more than a third […]
A disgruntled (and clearly sexist) male customer was miffed that a woman was running the workplace. But he couldn’t just leave, well, unless he had a parachute!
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 requires employers to accommodate their employees’ religious practices so long as doing so wouldn’t impose an undue hardship on the employers. Title VII Title VII, as amended, protects employees and job applicants from employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, and national origin. Whom Does […]
by Brad Federman Willful blindness is a legal term that means there is information you could and should know but have elected not to know. Deliberate indifference and contrived ignorance also are used to describe the phenomenon. Unfortunately, there is a great deal of willful blindness in the world today. Willful blindness causes the downfall […]
The old concept of company-as-family is dead (if it ever existed), says Ben Casnocha, entrepreneur and cofounder of LinkedIn. The new default is employees as free agents, but you can’t build a lasting, innovative business when employees act like free agents. Where’s the middle ground?
For well over a year now, the big story in the labor market has been the Great Resignation and the tremendous difficulty so many employers have been having finding qualified and engaged workers. Restaurants have had to cut back on hours and days of operation, airlines have had to cancel routes, and job openings in […]
I’m not sure how to tell you this, but diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) are NOT BULLETPROOF. I see your confusion (and pain) as you try to figure out how your company somehow sustained those workplace culture wounds, even with that brand-new DEI program in place. OK, I get it. They told you at the […]
As layoffs in various industries continue, employees are feeling the impact of thinning teams on their workload. To stay on top of their tasks, many employees are turning to leavism, where they use PTO time to catch up on outstanding assignments. Although this gives employees the chance to cross things off their list, it also […]
Continuing from yesterday’s post, here’s more valuable information you’ll want to consider when developing and implementing a financial wellness training program.