The Importance Of Data Literacy In Career Advancement: Explained
Having literacy in the topic of data and data-interpretation has been proven by empirical research to be a top predictor of career success.
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.
What Is The Importance Of Task Automation In Productivity And Well-Being?
Task automation does not take away jobs. Instead, task automation enhances worker experiences, by making works less necessary for tedious tasks, freeing up employee time for more important tasks .
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.
Report: The State of Worker Mental Health
Mental health and work are integrally related, and when work goes bad, workers’ mental health suffers. As of 2022, worker mental health is at an all-time low.
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.
Why Sitting All Day Is Unhealthy
Sitting for too long throughout the day is associated with health risks, such as diabetes and cancer. The solution to sitting too long during the work-day is to get up for a few minutes each hour and exercise in some way. Fitness routines independent of such intervals of walking do not stop the negative health risks of sitting down for too long each day.
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.
Freelancers Need Union Protections | Opinion
Freelancers do not have a real union. The freelancer’s union is a helpful website with good informational resources on how to fend for yourself as a freelancer. Union benefits for a freelance, like health insurance, are of necessity.
Will The American Jobs Plan Succeed?
The American Jobs Plan is President Joe Biden’s solution to the economic pitfalls of the COVID-19 pandemic. Without it, many small businesses will perish in America. Ghostwritten for the Baltimore Sun, and used by President Biden in a White Hoise press release.
Why Self-Actualization is Impossible
Human life is finite and we can therefore never live a ‘complete’ life, which is something that is supposedly required in order to be authentic. Authenticity in almost all of its plausible forms, is essentially an illusory ideal we will never live up to.
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.