Talent Management
Employee Retention Top Operational Goal for Businesses: Study
More than half of U.S. employers (51 percent) reported a turnover rate of at least 15 percent in 2022, up three points from 48 percent in 2021, according to Gallagher's 2023 U.S. Organizational ...
Employees Are Losing Sleep Over Rookie Managers: Research
New managers can be the stuff of office workers' nightmares. That's according to new research by digital learning system Oji Life Lab, which found that one in five employees lost sleep over a newly ...
Firms With Flexible-Work Policies Hire Faster Than Those Fully in Office: Research
Companies with flexible in-office policies are hiring faster than those that have fully returned to pre-pandemic attendance rules. But landing a flexible job still comes with challenges. New research ...
Good ‘Mind Reading’ Abilities Lead to Successful Teamwork
University of Birmingham researchers have found that people with strong mind reading abilities — the ability to understand and take the perspective of another person's feelings and intentions — ...
Workers Comp and Mental Health: Panel Examines Why Worker Well-Being Matters
American workers are struggling. Employee stress has reached record highs. Symptoms and formal diagnoses of mental illnesses like anxiety, depression and PTSD are rising. Substance abuse disorders ...
Is Insurance Recruiting Being Impacted by Artificial Intelligence?
The movie "Terminator 2" is the first thing that comes to mind when I hear about artificial intelligence. A universe where machines take over our daily lives seems so distant from my reality. Then ...
Supportive, Adaptive Company Culture Improves Remote Work
Remote work became the norm for many companies during the pandemic, but issues with collaboration, communication and the overall work environment meant it wasn't always a positive experience. Now, a ...
Still Hiring: Big Tech Layoffs Give Other Sectors an Opening
For the thousands of workers who'd never experienced upheaval in the tech sector, the recent mass layoffs at companies like Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Meta came as a shock. Now they are being ...