by jill-christensen | Feb 6, 2023 | Blog
Business is filled with buzzwords that come and go. Some are common, others are not. A new word for me? Slashing. The word ‘slasher’ refers to the slash sign, as in ‘/’, and refers to people who engage in several vocations simultaneously. Although it’s a new word...
by jill-christensen | Jan 8, 2023 | Blog
The holiday Southwest Airlines debacle. Where do I even begin? My friends, we’re talking about a company that I regularly blogged about because they were tops in employee engagement, and received 5,000 resumes for every open position. Southwest’s operations...
by jill-christensen | Nov 28, 2022 | Blog
According to the 2022 Women in the Workplace report from McKinsey and LeanIn.Org, the C-Suite remains predominantly male and White. Only one in four C-suite leaders was a woman, and just one in 20 was a woman of color. The report goes on to conclude that, “While women...
by jill-christensen | Sep 5, 2022 | Blog
Today’s topic? Quiet Quitting – the latest business buzz phrase. A rejection of the Western hustle culture, no work/life balance, little sleep, and burnout, quiet quitting isn’t quitting the job, it’s quitting the crappy parts of the job. Instead, a...
by jill-christensen | Aug 8, 2022 | Blog
During a companywide Q&A meeting in June, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg appeared visibly frustrated after an employee asked whether Meta Days (extra time off introduced during the pandemic) would continue in 2023. “Given my tone in the rest of the Q&A, you can...