Businesses have dealt with unprecedented challenges over the past two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Following federal or state mandates, enforcing customers to wear masks and requiring social distancing…
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Attracting and Retaining the Best Talent: What’s Your Message?
Attracting and retaining the best talent is challenging for everyone these days, with the Great Resignation and unemployment at record lows. Your message can either make you the clear choice…
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The Great Resignation Wake-up Call: What it Teaches Leaders About Keeping Valuable Talent
The significant rate of people exiting stage left from their work is one of many challenges we have faced during our Covid times. It is a wake-up call to all…
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The recipe for attracting and retaining top talent
Two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, we’ve seen record numbers of people leaving their jobs. With demand for workers on the rise, employees and job-seekers are in a position to…
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Time to Fire Your Jerk Boss
Whether you fire everyone on a group Zoom call or dump someone’s last paycheck on their lawn in oily pennies, there are lots of ways to be a jerk boss….
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Resignation, Reset and Renewal: Charting a New Path Forward At Work – Part II
This edition is the second of two looking at the implications of what is being referred to in varying degrees as “The Great Resignation” and “The Great Reset.” As with…
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The Number of Digital Nomads Surged Again in 2021
The pandemic-driven seismic shift to remote led to continued strong growth in the number of American digital nomads in 2021. The 2021 State of Independence research study found that 15.5…
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The Best Way to Battle Burnout
The recent Vox Media/Watermark survey of professional women was full of nuggets about what women want from the future of work. Hybrid and remote work, more time off, more mentoring…
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Understanding career skeptics and the role of employee monitoring
We all know that the pandemic has had a major impact on employment patterns: not just more people working from home, but fewer people returning to their pre-Covid jobs. This…
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What Women Want to Thrive at Work
After 20 months of working through the pandemic, women are exhausted, overwhelmed, sick of school closings, ready to burn our masks in a giant bonfire. Millions of us have left…
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