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Have you ever heard a coworker say something like, “It ladders up to our overarching framework and optimizes the impactfulness of our deliverables,” and wondered, “HUH?” You’re not alone. In a survey of America’s office workers by American Express OPEN, 88% admit to pretending to understand office jargon, even when they really have no idea […]
Upskilling puts healthcare workers on a path to high-growth careers.
In life, we design from the outside in. Take skyscrapers, for example. The placement of interior support beams is determined by external factors like wind and gravity. How about the movie industry? Films are written as a reflection of external society, its values, and its plights. Products are designed to solve problems, books are designed […]
We often hear of violence in the workplace. Employers should also be aware that employees are not always the source of such violence. Domestic abuse can, and has spilled into the workplace, sometimes with tragic consequences. It’s a situation all too familiar to Lynn Fairweather, MSW, president of Presage Consulting and Training, LLC.
Are remote jobs the future? It’s easy to think so. The COVID-19 pandemic has made our already-online world that much more plugged in. Employers are starting to see that investments in brick-and-mortar buildings aren’t always worth it, and employees are beginning to become just as productive at home as they are in the office. Zoom […]
The dress code was relaxed at a Canadian Google campus when staffers decided to lose half of their wardrobe for No Pants Day.
If you’re new to hot desking, it’s an office setup that serves as a temporary workspace in hybrid work models. See how this office trend is helping companies better serve hybrid employees. For the better part of the last few years, millions of employees have clocked in from the comfort of their own home. Now, […]
News stories and timelines have been inundated with the latest examples of company layoffs and the looming threat of a recession. However, many would be surprised to hear we’re operating in a candidate’s job market, where job seekers hold considerable power. This is especially true as employers continue to restructure following the Great Reshuffle. According […]
Every HR professional has heard of the danger of automation by now. Many are already loading various automated systems. Automation raises questions. What role will automation play in all of our futures? Will automation lead to me losing my job? Will humans even be involved in HR in a decade? Today we are joined by […]
Every job has at least three job descriptions: the company’s (the written one on file), the boss’s (rarely the same), and the employee’s (the one that describes what he or she actually does). In an ideal world, they would all be the same. But in the real world, they aren’t the same, and that causes […]