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28 Mar

Significant Disconnect Exposed Between Employee’s Needs and Manager’s Thoughts

By Jill Christensen

A staggering 47.4 million Americans quit their jobs last year. Employers have responded by throwing money and enhanced benefits at people, which is not a viable long-term strategy. Why? Because people are not quitting thanks to being paid unfairly. People are quitting because

21 Mar

AI Provides Critical Insights About How to Increase Employee Retention

By Jill Christensen

With a historic 4.5 million workers willingly leaving their jobs in November 2021, there are more questions than ever about what’s driving the change and how employers can retain talent.
EmpowerPoints, an employee engagement platform provider, recently revealed answers to those

14 Mar

Senior Leaders are Beginning to be Held Accountable. Finally.

By Jill Christensen

Makeup company Estée Lauder has fired senior executive John Demsey for an offensive Instagram post on his personal account that used a racial slur. Demsey posted a spoof book cover based on the TV show Sesame Street that used the N-word with

07 Mar

Malls Morph to Stay Alive. Will it Work?

By Jill Christensen

As recently reported by Parija Kavilanz, a senior writer at CNN Business, as Covid restrictions ease, shopping malls are morphing into family entertainment destinations where shopping may no longer be what draws shoppers in.
Thanks to the rise in online

28 Feb

How to Lay Off a Remote Worker Gracefully

By Jill Christensen

We all know that getting fired from a job is a jarring experience for the employee, manager, and colleagues who were spared. And now we have a new wrinkle to add to the mix which can make the process even

21 Feb

How Can Millions of People Afford to Stop Working?

By Jill Christensen

People have left the workforce for many reasons in the past two years, including child care needs, layoffs, health insecurity, and personal issues that arose from the disruption caused by the pandemic. But of the people who have left and

14 Feb

Domino’s Will Pay You to Not Get Your Pizza Delivered

By Jill Christensen

Say it isn’t so. Thanks to a shortage of workers, Domino’s Pizza will tip customers $3 if they order online and choose carryout. The credit can be used on a future online carryout order.
Domino’s is hoping the promotion will help alleviate stress

07 Feb

Top Five Workplace Trends in 2022

By Jill Christensen

According to Dan Schawbel, New York Times Bestselling Author and Managing Partner of Workplace Intelligence, there are several workplace trends that will impact how we work and live for the upcoming year. Here are Schawbel’s top five:
#1: Most companies

31 Jan

The Most Important Thing a Leader Must Do Post-COVID is This

By Jill Christensen

One of the best business books I’ve ever read is Patrick Lencioni’s classic, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, which explores organizational dynamics and offers solutions to help teams perform better. In light of our new world of work, where leaders are

23 Jan

More Than Half of Workers Would Consider Quitting Before Returning to the Office

By Jill Christensen

According to pollster Morning Consult, 55 percent of American workers say they would consider leaving their job if they were asked back to the office before they felt safe.
This news has extraordinary ramifications for employers, who are already suffering