If you had to sum up the 2023 workplace, perhaps this is the best description: Chaotic Working. Let’s just throw out a few phrases used to describe the labor trends of the year: Rage Applying. Loud Quitting. Quiet Cutting. Bare Minimum Mondays. Great Gloom. Coffee Badging. The Great Regret. Looks like chaos, right?! And unfortunately,…
Over the past year, there has been widespread coverage of labor shortages in industries such as healthcare, hospitality and manufacturing. Less publicized, but no less challenging, is a similar labor shortfall facing U.S. public sector agencies where, as of September 2021, some 857,000 posts remained unfilled. Fortunately, new research shines a light on a large…
Have you heard about the newest workplace trend? Maybe not, because employees have been quiet about Hush Trips so far. Hush Trips – when employees’ getaways overlap with their working hours and days, but they don’t tell you where they’re working and they allow time for exploring and relaxing – probably aren’t new in 2023….
Quiet stuff sucks. So let’s embrace what’s new and loud in HR — “Loud Loyalty.” Think about all the quiet trends that worked against HR, managers and companies as a whole: Quiet Firing. Quiet Vacationing. Quiet Cutting. Quiet Quitting. In fact, we saw the highest number of voluntary quits ever in the past few years…
Overemployed: This isn’t moonlighting. It’s more like daylighting — remote employees working two (or more!) full-time jobs at the same time. It’s a growing trend, and it presents concerns and issues for HR and the companies you serve. “Employers should be eyes-wide-open about the trends in overemployment,” says Jo McRell, an employee experience consultant and…
What is “Productivity Theater” and why should it bother you? It’s pretend work — and it’s not helpful to any organization. On the surface it looks like this: Under the surface, Productivity Theater can be a sign of: Realities of Productivity Theater In some cases, employees start acting in Productivity Theater because they’ve prioritized performative…
Sounds innocent enough, but “Quiet Cutting” is a people management trend you want to avoid. Some claim Quiet Cutting is a strategic, compassionate way to right-size or right-fit an organization: You — or other staff leaders — reassign employees, expecting they’ll fail and quit (or, if you’re lucky, they turn the tables, succeed and excel)….
First the pandemic brought suicide prevention to the forefront. Then the recent death of Stephen “Twitch” Boss, TV personality, dancer and DJ, brought the topic front and center for the holidays. Even if people didn’t know of Twitch or watch him on “So You Think You Can Dance” or “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” they were…
The newest “Great” for HR to handle: The Great Regret. On the heels of The Great Resignation, many employees who were eager to leave when the job market was hot are feeling some regret. And they might be knocking on your door soon. About 80% of employees who quit their previous jobs in the past…
TikTok is known for “Get Ready With Me” videos, where influencers talk to the camera while putting on makeup or doing their hair. But there’s a new TikTok trend sweeping the internet: “Get Laid Off With Me.” These videos — where employees film themselves getting fired or laid off — have gone viral more than…
Work smarter, not harder. It’s a concept that’s often used, seldom realized. Why? “Working smarter” almost always requires more resources. And who has more money, time and effort? Probably not you, considering corporate training budgets dropped almost 20% in the past year, according to research from ThinkImpact. The same goes for the U.S. military, where…
Let’s set the scene for a recent lawsuit: A male worker exposed himself to a female co-worker and showed her explicit pictures of himself. Then, word spread about the incident in the workplace. Sounds like a slam-dunk sexual harassment lawsuit, right?
What do a tanning bed, a swimming pool, a trip to Hawaii and a bikini all have in common? One clue: It’s got nothing to do with warm weather or a desire to look good. Give up? They’re all perks employees have requested from HR and benefits pros. Want to hear some more crazy ones?
Some HR pros have become afraid of entering into “last chance” agreements with poor-performing staffers. But as one workplace expert notes, those agreements can be legal and helpful — as long as they’re done the right way.
The definition of disability — the kind employers have to make an effort to accommodate — just keeps getting wider and wider.
Prepare to be alarmed by the kinds of things C-suite executives, managers and supervisors have asked their subordinates to do for them.
