Accustomed to delivering unwanted gifts like Aunt Kitty’s homemade fruitcake and rather insincere “Sorry we missed you” slips, United Parcel Service continued to be the bearer of bad news during an earnings call this week.
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Workplace podcaster who slammed a Gen Z hire for missing an 8 a.m. meeting to work out has been forced to apologize after TikTok backlash
Work-life balance who? A TikToker, corporate commentator, and podcast host has been forced to apologize after scolding a Gen Z worker for turning down their boss’s early morning meeting request in order to work out.
The remote-work revolution is morphing into a perk for the wealthiest, most educated workers
Before the days of the punch buggies and the Toyotathon, Americans were stuck with the objectively slower, more austere transportation options of horses and sail boats.
How unpopular are return-to-office mandates? 99% of companies who had one saw a drop in employee satisfaction, study finds
Executives spent the better part of three years enticing, coaxing, cajoling, asking, and then finally demanding their employees return to the office.
Bank of America is threatening workers foiling its return to office plans with disciplinary action—they have 2 weeks to comply
Wall Street bosses are saying enough is enough. Bank of America has joined the growing list of banks putting their foot down and forcing workers to comply with its return-to-office mandates—or else.
Managers’ latest complaints about Gen Z: They lack soft skills and have unrealistic workplace expectations
Ideally, the onboarding process teaches a new hire pretty much everything they need to excel at their job. It identifies their point person for tech trouble, when to meet with their manager, and how to overcome the most common roadblocks.
DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman warns AI is a ‘fundamentally labor replacing’ tool over the long term
DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman is a heavyweight in the AI space. The Oxford dropout worked as a negotiator for the United Nations and the Dutch government early in his career, but then pivoted to AI and founded DeepMind in 2010 alongside Demis Hassabis and Shane Legg.
Workplace health benefits don’t move the needle on improving employee happiness and well-being. With one exception
From virtual therapy to time management classes and mindfulness programs, workplaces are hoping their commitment to well-being pays off in the long run with a happier, healthier cohort of workers.
DEI backlash has companies quietly changing their programs to avoid wave of lawsuits alleging discrimination
Sophia Danner-Okotie’s has ambitious plans for her Nigerian-inspired clothing line but a sense of dread has punctured her optimism as she watches a legal battle being waged against a small venture capital firm that has provided funding instrumental to her boutique brand’s growth.
Remote workers are promoted less than in-office colleagues—but there’s no difference between hybrid working and always being in-person, study finds
Out of sight, out of mind—that’s what remote workers apparently are to their managers. Meanwhile, workers who go into the office are more likely to get face time with management which can increase their odds of scoring a promotion, getting a raise, and winning the affections of their boss.
Bosses are using RTO mandates as a way to ‘blame employees as a scapegoat for bad firm performance,’ new research finds
The modern workplace, at least in the past three years, may very well have been defined by companies’ varying efforts to haul their unwilling people back to their desks.
Bad-faith reverse-discrimination claims hurt America’s economic future and global standing
There was a time when cotton was king and Black slave labor built the stature and wealth of America, a brutal time in history the legacy of which stubbornly persists to this day in our economic, political, legal, and education systems.
Bosses know their employees are burned out
…and they’re scared about retaining talent
How a Neiman Marcus exec gets workers into the office without forcing them: ‘It’s a magnet, not a mandate’
After filing for bankruptcy shortly into the pandemic—and emerging guns blazing three months later—leaders at Neiman Marcus Group (NMG) realized that in order to keep up with an entirely new way of work, drastic changes needed to be made.
Millennial bosses are demanding free lunch and a 12% pay rise if they have to return to the office full-time
In a bid to convince workers that commuting into an office to do the very same job—except under the beady eyes of the boss—is worth their while, employers have been pimping up their workplaces with better coffee machines, living walls, and the latest tech equipment.