workplace Archives - Jill Christensen International

05 Jun

Top 10 List for Best Work-Life Balance

By Jill Christensen

According to a new report, only one North American city is in the Top 10 List for Best Work-Life Balance. Ottawa, Canada, comes in at number seven in a sea of European and Scandinavian cities:

Oslo
Bern
Helsinki
Zurich

18 Apr

Is Your Workplace Safe? Find Out Here

By Jill Christensen

Workplace wellness is rearing its head and according to Andrews Air Quality, which commissioned the research, the findings leave a lot to be desired:

A whopping 59 percent of people surveyed think their employer needs to do more to put fewer

11 Apr

Most Great Resignation ‘Takers’ Have Regrets

By Jill Christensen

A recent survey by the online career platform The Muse found that more than 70 percent of workers who changed jobs during the Great Resignation say their new positions aren’t what they expected.
Reddit user Darksideofthemoon90 recently shared, “I was so excited

04 Apr

Second Chance Hiring is Changing Lives

By Jill Christensen

U.S. Rubber, a manufacturer in Colton, CA, has met the challenge by embracing second-chance hiring. Formerly incarcerated people, hired through their Bounce Back! program, make up about 50 percent of their workforce.
A key benefit of second chance hiring is the ability to

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

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

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

04 Oct

Stop Throwing Money at Workers – Do This Instead

By Jill Christensen

Organizations around the globe are having a hard time attracting workers and struggling to keep them – sometimes beyond day one. Increasingly, new hires are accepting offers and then ghosting employers by not showing up. And the ones that do

23 Aug

Could You Function as a Digital Nomad?

By Jill Christensen

The term Digital Nomad refers to people who work independent of their location, mostly online and often while travelling. These people have roles where their responsibilities do not require a fixed location or office space, and they can carry out