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17 Jan

Want to Fix Your Hiring Woes? Hello, Four-Day Workweek

By Jill Christensen

Tech company Bolt has instituted a four-day workweek, says founder and CEO Ryan Breslow, making it one of just a handful of U.S. companies to embrace a shortened work schedule.
Based in San Francisco, Bolt conducted a three-month trial in

10 Jan

You Will Never Regret Firing Toxic Team Members

By Jill Christensen

After a crazy incident where Tampa Bay Buccaneers NFL football player Antonio Brown left Sunday’s win over the New York Jets midgame and shirtless, head coach Bruce Arians told reporters that the veteran wide receiver is no longer with the team. “He is no longer

03 Jan

Entry Interviews: The Latest Attempt to Retain Great Workers

By Jill Christensen

Amid hundreds of millions of job resignations monthly worldwide, founder of Huffington Post, Arianna Huffington, has advice for organizations that are struggling to retain workers. Huffington advises companies to conduct an Entry Interview to find out what matters to the candidate

13 Dec

What Employee Disengagement Looks Like

By Jill Christensen

Employee Disengagement Looks Like in Full Color

As many as 400 packages of varying sizes were found in a ravine 30 miles north of Birmingham, Alabama, authorities said. This is on top of the hundreds of FedEx packages previously discovered weeks before dumped into the ravine.
FedEx

05 Dec

Inc. is in Search of the Best Workplaces

By Jill Christensen

A great company culture isn’t just a nice to have. It’s a differentiator in a marketplace where millions of organizations are clamoring to attract, hire, and retain the best-and-brightest talent. Want to get the recognition your remarkable company deserves? Then

29 Nov

CEOs Are Finally Seeing the Light

By Jill Christensen

Major retailers Walmart and Target did not open their brick-and-mortar retail stores last week on the major U.S. holiday Thanksgiving Day.
Retailers began opening stores on Thanksgiving a decade ago, in an effort to kick-off Black Friday sales a day

15 Nov

Would Your Executives Fry Chicken?

By Jill Christensen

According to Bloomberg, a fast-food chain is asking corporate staff to fry chicken, sweep floors, operate cash registers, and recruit in its restaurants amid an industrywide labor shortage.
Raising Cane’s Chicken Fingers, which has more than 500 locations in the USA,

08 Nov

Overworked, Underappreciated Employees are Quitting in Droves

By Jill Christensen

Job search site Joblist recently reported that according to their survey, 73% of US workers are actively thinking about quitting their job. The hospitality industry had the highest share of workers thinking about quitting at 77%.
“Workers are sick and

01 Nov

The Secret to Engaging Virtual Workers is Here

By Jill Christensen

March 11, 2020. It was exactly six months to the day before the 19th anniversary of 9/11 and a day that – like 9/11 – will go down in infamy. This time, however, the culprit was not the Islamic extremist

25 Oct

How to Spot a Bad Boss

By Jill Christensen

Fellow author and leadership coach Marcel Schwantes recently chronicled in Inc.com how to spot a really bad manager. Why are so many bad managers in leadership positions? In my opinion, it’s because employees are not promoted because they are great