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When it comes to paid time off from work, America doesn’t have the best reputation. Last year, researchers named the U.S. one of the worst countries in the world for giving employees paid leave.
American workers get an average of 10 paid days off per year, according to careers site Zippia. While this increases slightly after five years with the same employer, it’s still far less than workers in other parts of the world are entitled to—often by law. READ MORE
Observers are divided on whether AT&T’s recent return-to-office (RTR) mandate will prove to be a proactive move to maximize its talent or “just a ploy to cut jobs.”
In May, AT&T CEO John Stankey mandated that 60,000 managers must report to work in personOpen in a new tab — but only at nine specific offices among its 350 locations spread across the country. READ MORE
In the modern workplace, you can "quiet quit" or stay and become a "resentee."
After a bad day at the office some workers reported "rage applying" on LinkedIn and coming up with a five-figure salary raise. Employers have also hit back with "quiet hiring" — spreading out the work between existing employees or freelancers instead of hiring a new full-time employee to save money. READ MORE
When Zay clocked into her customer service job one recent morning, she noticed things looked different. There were no chairs in the break room. She had nowhere to sit at the table where she usually files invoices. When she reached the back of the store, there was one lonely folding chair propped against the wall. “Not for employee use,” read a handwritten note taped on the metal.
When employees asked their boss what had happened, they learned about a new no-sitting policy. Hopefully, the business owner said, this would “increase worker productivity”. READ MORE
Fully remote jobs are getting harder to come by, but the competition for work-from-home jobs is especially fierce in some parts of the country.
In Bend, Ore., nearly 3 in 4 job applications are to roles that are remote, according to LinkedIn’s latest Workforce Insights Report, which analyzed more than 201 million applications to remote jobs in the U.S. over the past year. Just two years ago, remote jobs in Bend attracted about 42% of applications. READ MORE
As chief people officer for sweet bread company King’s Hawaiian, Amy Hirsh Robinson and her team are developing a new recipe for HR.
The first ingredient? A non-traditional mindset. READ MORE
Companies are sitting on a lot less cash than they were last year, largely because they’re spending it on share buybacks and corporate dividends.
While shareholders may be chuffed by that news, the slumping economy, surging interest rates and a credit crunch may mean US firms come to regret reducing their cash buffers. READ MORE
Several U.S. states — from Alaska to Pennsylvania — have recently dropped college-degree or certification requirements in favor of alternative certifications or experience for state employment, with Virginia becoming the latest state to do so.Open in a new tab
Almost 90% of Virginia’s state job listings will be affected by the change, according to the announcement. READ MORE
More than half of American employers offer a four-day workweek, or plan to, according to a survey released Tuesday.
A poll of 976 business leaders by ResumeBuilder.com, the job-seekers website, found that 20 percent of employers already have a four-day workweek. Another 41 percent said they plan to implement a four-day week, at least on a trial basis. READ MORE
Amid the continuing labor volatility in the U.S., it may not be surprising that a recent survey found the organization’s future economic outlook to be the top driver of employee turnover.
In other words, those poor quarterly reports are going to have workers heading for the door—39% of them, in fact, according to Payscale, a provider of compensation data, software and services. READ MORE
To help you effectively address employee performance issues, we gathered insights from 12 top professionals, including CEOs, founders, and managers. From asking three revealing questions to using specific examples and facts, these experts share their tried-and-true approaches to tackling performance challenges in the workplace. READ MORE
Are you tired of chasing up appraisal forms? Are you wondering why your people roll their eyes and sigh when it’s time for end of year reviews? Are you starting to wonder if your Performance Management process is the right fit for your organisation and your people? If so it might be time to bring your Performance Management into the 21st century! Remove the pain out of annual appraisals, and move to a more engaging, continuous process that will actually yield results. READ MORE
It’s Gen Z’s turn, apparently, to rag on Baby Boomers.
As the youngest working generation steps into America’s offices and workplaces, the eldest group of workers is learning that they supposedly have habits that are irritating to their newer counterparts. READ MORE
Small business owners are concerned about the economy for the 17th month in a row, according to a National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) report released Tuesday.
Inflation was the biggest problem for 25% of small business owners in May, up two points from April. Concern about labor quality followed close behind at 24%, with 44% of owners reporting difficulty filling job openings. READ MORE
Finding quality employees is crucial for the success of any business, but attracting top talent in today's competitive hiring environment can be challenging. To succeed, hiring managers should leverage recruiting tools, including ZipRecruiter, to cast a broader net that reaches the right talent.
The latest Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey, or JOLTS, showed 9.9 million job openings at the end of February, down some 632,000 from the previous month. But even with some softening in the labor market, many companies continue to hire. READ MORE
Since 1999, David Kang has pursued a peculiar hobby. That year, after Fortune released its annual Fortune 500 issue, Kang began to wonder about where chief executives of companies on the list had attended college. To keep track, the college professor did some research and manually entered their alma maters into a spreadsheet. After completing the task, Kang, then a professor at Dartmouth College’s Tuck School of Business, was shocked by what the data revealed.
“The results were stunning,” he told Fortune. “Like everyone else, I thought Ivy Leagues would dominate. But the largest place they had gone to was no college at all.” READ MORE
The golden age of remote work seems to be ending. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that even tech firms (the first industry that told employees they could work from home forever just a few years ago) are getting engineers and project managers back in the office. The economic blogger Kevin Drum, formerly of Mother Jones, has taken note of the increasing anti-remote literature and is making a bold prediction about the future of work: there is none. It’s not going to look much different than it’s ever looked. That’s because the remote work revolution just isn’t going to materialize. READ MORE
Just three years ago, diversity and sustainability were big talking points for executives at many big companies, and ESG funds — investments that evaluate stocks using environmental, social and governance factors — were riding the wave.
But corporate interest in trumpeting these initiatives appears to have been short-lived. Just 74 members of the S&P 500 even mentioned “ESG” in their first quarter earnings calls, according to new FactSet data. READ MORE
Being a first-time manager can be incredibly fulfilling, but it also comes with many transitions and challenges.
When I stepped into a manager role for the first time, I failed miserably. As a high-performing individual contributor, I had been eager to get promoted to manager. But when I finally got there, I struggled to delegate and took on everyone’s jobs, only to feel overwhelmed. I was impatient with my team and set impossible goals without empowering them to get there. Even though I didn’t communicate my vision, I got frustrated when my team misunderstood expectations. While I’d put on a brave face in front of my team, deep inside, I felt like an imposter who didn’t know how to do the job. READ MORE