The Importance Of Job Safety
Job safety is extremely important to workers. Indeed, job safety is so important to workers that research shows that poor job safety ratings is enough for many workers to seek work elsewhere.
What Is Cryptocurrency’s Role In The Future Of Work?
Increasingly, jobs are offering what employees desire: an option to take a salary, not in traditional currency, but in some form of cryptocurrency.
Young Workers Face Reverse Ageism in the Workplace
Ageism is when workers are discriminated against on the basis of their age in the workplace. Research shows that in recent years, younger workers have experienced greater numbers of ageism in the workplace —a concept usually associated with older workers who experience it.
Is Your Company Pandemic-Resilient or Future-Resilient?
Ideally, companies should be both pandemic and future resilient. Yet, being resilient to pandemics and the general future may indeed be mutually exclusive. What is the difference between pandemic resilience and future resilience for a company?
How to Improve the Employee Onboarding Process
The employee onboarding process must be conducted entirely remotely in order for it to be done most efficiently, research shows.
The Pandemic Has Created A Career Coach Boom
During the pandemic, because many people lost their jobs, they turned to career coaches, either because they needed help, or because they wanted to become career coaches themselves.
Workers Want Wage Increases because of Inflation
Economists are split on how inflation should be best handled. Nevertheless, workers are suffering from inflation and the increased cost of goods. Will increasing worker wages make inflation any better or worse?
Talent Will Not Be Local In The Future Of Work
Remote work has expanded the pool of workers indefinitely, such that talent for many jobs —and increasingly, most jobs— will not be local. Instead, talent is global.
What Habits Will Be Brought Back Into The Office?
Employers believe that remote work should come to an end soon. However, they also believe that when remote work does supposedly come to an end, workers will bring with them bad habits that they picked up while working remotely. Here is why they are dead wrong.
Curiosity and Authenticity at Work
Curiosity is the personality characteristic that seeks novelty, whereas authenticity is the characteristic that seeks truth and transparency from oneself. Here is why curiosity and authenticity are profoundly valuable assets in the workplace.
Upskilling for Hiring Managers
In recent years, etiquette in job interviews has changed rapidly. Now more than ever, hiring managers are on the receiving end of questions from job interview candidates. Thus, hiring managers need to prepare to answer candidate questions during job interviews.
Young Entrepreneurship is on the Rise
In recent years, young people are less keen on traditional work. Instead, Gen Z is more interested in entrepreneurship —and sometimes, at the expense of going to or finishing college.
Managers Need to Adapt to Remote Work | Opinion
Remote work is beneficial for employees and companies alike. Yet, managers are generally hesitant to embrace remote work, as they feel as if it makes workers less productive and more insecure about their ability to lead.
The Great Resignation Will Be Good for Corporations, Not Workers | Opinion
In this editorial, it is argued that The Great Resignation will not benefit workers, but instead will benefit employers and corporations, because, on the one hand, the structures in place will engineer this outcome, and likewise, corporations will use The Great Resignation as an opportunity to automate, outsource, and lay-off workers.
Why Every Manager Needs To Understand Personality Traits In The Workplace
Personality traits are an important guide for managers and employers in the workplace, not so much for hiring or narrowing candidates for employment, but for making accommodations for existing and future employees on the basis of their uniqueness.
Here’s Why More Than 70% Of Resumes Are Rejected
A key component of acquiring a job in the 21st century is having a resume that has keywords tailored to the algorithms (ATS: Automated Tracking Systems) that employers use to narrow the applicant pool. Most job applicants are unaware of this, which is why 70 percent of resumes are rejected.
Money Management 101 for Independent Workers
Being an independent worker comes with a whole host of added responsibilities —probably the most challenging of which being money management. This article is a guide on how to manage money as an independent worker or freelancer.
When Work Does Not Happen At Work, Take A Look At Management
The chain of command at work is not always best looked at from a top-down approach. When mistakes —such as insubordination— happen at work, managers are likely the root of the problem.
Will The 2020s Be Like The Roaring 20s?
The roaring 20s was a time of revolutionary shifts in American culture, industry, and economy. The 2020s are shaping up to be similar in their revolutionary shifts, but perhaps to a different effect?