Talent Management
Gain Productivity With a Skills-Based Work Model
The traditional job as we know it is slowly being replaced by skills-based work models. Could the shift help you recapture productivity? When it rains, it pours. The labor market was already strained ...
How to Create an Adaptive Insurance Organization
The appetite for risk is evolving in the insurance industry. The events of the last few years—volatility from inflation, climate change, regulatory updates, and technological innovations just to ...
I’m Outta Here Too: Study Finds Layoffs, Employee Departures Influence Co-Workers
A recent study from UBC Sauder School of Business suggests that the departure of an employee, whether they quit or get fired, can cause many of their colleagues to follow suit and leave the company. ...
Employees Want Companies With Strong Culture, Values, Leadership
Culture is top of mind when workers weigh up which "unicorn business" they want to work for. That's according to the results of a recent broad-based study by Hu-X which assessed conditions at a ...
Office Politics Still Toxic in the Work-From-Home Era
The gossip. The suck-up. The bully. Workplaces have been home to these toxic personalities since the beginning of work, and a new survey has found the problem persists in the hybrid world in which ...
When Managers Try to Be Therapists, Worker Mental Health Suffers
Layoffs, return-to-office battles and concerns over artificial intelligence replacing jobs have elevated employee stress levels, exposing a troubling workplace deficiency: Very few managers know how ...
Show Employees You Care to Boost Productivity, Retention
Feeling "cared for" at work is a key driver of employee holistic health and happiness, which are strongly connected to productivity, loyalty and job satisfaction, according to MetLife's 21st annual ...
Less Than Half of U.S. Workers Use All Their Vacation Days
Spring break is here, and summer vacations are just around the bend. But while increasingly stressed-out U.S. workers say having paid time off is critical, many still don't even take all that they're ...