?Employee engagement has reached its lowest level since 2015, according to a new survey released by research firm Gallup. About 32 percent of the 67,000 full- and part-time employees surveyed were engaged... Read more »
?Emma is an HR director overseeing a team of four specialists in a 400-person organization, and she suspects that her team may be suffering from quiet quitting. She suspects that the rest... Read more »
?A florist arranges delicate cherry blossom branches in a large black vase in a building’s lobby, while another positions red blooms in a white vessel. Workers hang greenery around hallway entrances, creating... Read more »
Five years ago, when I was 16 and before any of us had ever heard of social distancing, I wrote an article for SHRM’s HR Magazine on what the working world needed... Read more »
?It’s no secret: Many employees have a “Plan B” in case things start to go badly with their current job. But now, even more workers are creating contingency plans to protect their... Read more »
?Millennials and Generation Z say improving their mental health is their top resolution for 2023, according to a Forbes Health survey conducted in November with 1,005 U.S. adults. Half of respondents between... Read more »
?As organizations continue to evolve their hybrid workplace strategies, the plight of middle managers is starting to come into clearer focus. “Middle management has always been a challenge, even without layering in... Read more »
?Levels of burnout and anxiety are already high this year as an ongoing pandemic, social unrest and other stressors continue to take their toll on employees’ emotional well-being. Now comes the latest... Read more »
It’s likely no surprise that employee burnout and stress reached all-time highs in 2022. The American Psychological Association found that 79 percent of U.S. adult workers experienced work-related stress this year, which... Read more »
To put it bluntly, worker productivity in the U.S. is anemic. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that productivity dropped 7.4 percent in the first quarter of 2022 and 4.6 percent... Read more »