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Quiet Quitting – The Latest Thing (That’s Been Around Forever)

Maybe it’s the alliteration. The fact that it makes a catchy hashtag. Whatever it is, talk of #quietquitting just won’t seem to quit, quietly or otherwise. We’ve delayed our weighing in on it until some of the furor subsided, but the fact is that we (and many others) have been talking and writing about quiet […]

Where Did All the Workers Go? A Lot Retired.

Where did all the workers go? Answer #3 in the series: People retired in droves. Way more than anyone expected. More than half the people who voluntarily withdrew themselves from the labor force between March of 2020 and July of 2021 did so through retirement.

Where Did All the Workers Go?

The severe labor shortage of 2022 has most of us vexed. The question I keep hearing is “Where did everyone go?” If you look deep enough (and I have), the answers present themselves. And it’s not just one thing. Or even two or three. It takes a lot of converging factors to tighten the labor […]

How Managers Can Improve Remote Employee Engagement

With the seismic shift to remote work, Employee Engagement, which some organizations may have felt they were getting a handle on, has reemerged as a major challenge. A recent report shows that 71% of managers feel employee engagement has a direct impact on the overall success of an organization. With this number in mind, leaders […]