The layoffs just keep stacking up, raising fears that we're on the brink of a recession. Google-parent Alphabet let 12,000 people go, mere days after Microsoft and Amazon announced that they were slashing 10,000 and 18,000 jobs, respectively. T...

There's nothing like the anticipation of a new hire, and the expectation of infusing fresh experience, talent and drive into your workforce. Too often, however, those expectations go unmet. The data has long made it clear that external hires co...

I have genuine respect for Walt Disney CEO Bob Iger and JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, but I think they are flat-out wrong to insist that workers return to the office full time.

This is bad for employees, and it's bad for business....

When Elon Musk issued his "hardcore" return to the office edict at Twitter, he showed how badly he missed the transformational shift in the way people view work. Instead of rallying the troops, hundreds of employees quit. The world had changed. M...

When companies as widely recognized and well established as Boeing, Walmart, and IBM start moving in a similar direction on something, it's safe to say the idea has legs.

In this case, companies are looking towards skills-based hiri...

Organizational psychologists have watched Musk's restructuring of the social-media platform with dismay. Here's what leaders can learn from this imbroglio

It will be months before we understand the true impact of Elon...

Ready or not, workplace artificial intelligence (AI) could be coming soon to you.

If employers want AI data to measure productivity, build efficiencies, better understand the talent you have and the skills gaps you need to close - a...

If your employees aren't picking up new skills as quickly and as thoroughly as you'd like, it may be time to have them play - or at least feel like they're playing.

More companies are integrating gaming into their learning, on...

If you think it's been hard to find and hire new talent lately, then try doing it during a recession.

No matter what you call what large employers have been going through lately-the labor shortage, wage shortage, the Great Resigna...

Your business has a skills gap to close. You have positions to fill. You have a turnover problem.

You also have a potential solution: An apprenticeship program.

No longer the 19th Century system for training blacksmiths, a...

Employees leave. It's a fact of working life.

It's up to you to decide how to handle those goodbyes. You can be angry and hurt and take it as a personal rejection. Or, you can turn every departure into an opportunity to learn abou...

The days of assessing an employee's skills and goals in annual reviews may be over.

In the current talent war, if you want to keep your best employees from walking out the door, you need to work with them - now - to remove caree...

If you're still requiring your team to show up in the office every day, then you might have a business problem that has nothing to do with remote work.

Maybe you're change-averse. Maybe you're operating in a culture that prizes proces...

When seeking a new job or a promotion, conventional wisdom suggests you position yourself as a specialist in your field. However, there is little conventional about today's job market, as career paths become less linear and increasingly flexible....

As I think back on the roller coaster we've been on over the past two years, one thing is very clear - the one-size-fits-all approach to staff wellness is a thing of the past. And if your company hasn't updated its benefits since the pandemic, yo...

The coming recession will be a real and abrupt reckoning for workers of a certain age and attitude.

Rising inflation and a sharp downturn in the markets all but guarantee layoffs are looming in many sectors. The days of expecting emp...

The "Great Resignation" has defined the trend of U.S. workers quitting jobs at a record pace. But the future of work is being reshaped by the "Great Reimagination."

As employees are breaking out of the 9-to-5 paradigm, they in...

First was the Great Depression. Then came the Great Recession.

Sixteen months after the first Covid-19 lockdown, it's now time for the Great Resignation.

A record 4 million people quit their jobs in April alone, and more...

The war for talent appears to be getting fiercer by the day as the U.S. economy stirs back to life in the wake of the pandemic.

Supermarkets are handing out bonuses in their desperation to hire and retain frontline staff; franchise ow...

The "Future of Work" has rightly become a hot topic over the past year as the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the digital transformation and disrupted whole industries.

But the phrase risks lulling employers into a false sense o...