Category: General Interest

August 7, 2023

Companies continue to offer less remote and hybrid work.

Companies continue to offer less remote and hybrid work.

Applications to remote jobs begin to wane while applications to hybrid jobs continue to grow.   In June 2023, 9.6% (1 in 10) of U.S. paid job postings on LinkedIn offered remote work versus 13.1% (1 in 7) for hybrid work. In June 2022 last year, remote jobs accounted for 17.8% of U.S. paid jobs andRead More

August 3, 2023

‘How Do I Do That?’ The New Hires of 2023 Are Unprepared for Work

‘How Do I Do That?’ The New Hires of 2023 Are Unprepared for Work

Remote learning during the pandemic left students short of basic skills. Now companies are trying to teach them on the job. By Douglas Belkin, Ben Chapman andBen Kesling Roman Devengenzo was consulting for a robotics company in Silicon Valley last fall when he asked a newly minted mechanical engineer to design a small aluminum partRead More

August 1, 2023

Your Biggest Career Mistakes—and What You Learned From Them

Your Biggest Career Mistakes—and What You Learned From Them

Everybody stumbles at some point. The question is: What do you do next? The best career mistakes are those you learn from and that put you on a better path Agonizing about the academic degree you got? The decision to accept a job you had doubts about? Your regrettable candor in that meeting? The avoidanceRead More
Don’t Be a Jerk at Work. (But Don’t Be Too Nice, Either.)

Don’t Be a Jerk at Work. (But Don’t Be Too Nice, Either.)

How devolving into people-pleasing can hold back your career By Rachel Feintzeig How nice should you be at work? We’ve supposedly moved on from the era of the militaristic chief executive who barks orders and threats. Most of us agree: We don’t like jerks. Be kind, we implore our kids. Then we get to theRead More

July 26, 2023

Americans in Their Prime Are Flooding Into the Job Market

Americans in Their Prime Are Flooding Into the Job Market

Americans in Their Prime Are Flooding Into the Job Market The share of people between 25 and 54 working or seeking jobs rose this year to the highest level since 2002 By Jeffrey Sparshott July 22, 2023 5:30 am ET The core of the American labor force is back. Americans between 25 and 54 yearsRead More
To Address Labor Shortages, Manufacturers Must Become Talent Creators

To Address Labor Shortages, Manufacturers Must Become Talent Creators

Upskilling and reskilling of existing employees is also a vital piece of this employment puzzle. Chris Keaveney Our nation is facing a dire shortage of manufacturing workers. The National Association of Manufacturers forecast that by 2030, the United States could have 2.1 million unfilled manufacturing jobs. A March 2022 survey from Deloitte and the ManufacturingRead More

July 12, 2023

‘It’s Not My Responsibility’ to Save the Office Economy

‘It’s Not My Responsibility’ to Save the Office Economy

Hundreds of workers told us why they aren’t coming back to the office Gretchen Tarrant, Wall Street Journal If there’s an overarching truth in the workplace right now, it’s this: Many workers don’t want to go back to the office. Plenty of bosses say they should. The result is a stalemate. Office-occupancy rates have stagnatedRead More
Bosses Push Back on WFH Die-Hards: ‘They Will Need to Show Up’

Bosses Push Back on WFH Die-Hards: ‘They Will Need to Show Up’

Managers say team productivity has taken a hit as employees stay remote By Gretchen Tarrant, Wall Street Journal Office attendance is slumping again and bosses have a warning: We are a worse company when you stay home. In buildings across 10 major U.S. cities, office occupancy has fallen back below 50% for the past threeRead More

June 26, 2023

New Grads Have No Idea How to Behave in the Office. Help Is on the Way.

New Grads Have No Idea How to Behave in the Office. Help Is on the Way.

As the Class of 2023 enters the workforce, employers are seeing a lack of the skills necessary to navigate the office. The solution: instruction on how to send an email, the right way to buttonhole the boss and what not to wear. JUSTIN METZ By Lindsay Ellis Follow Recent graduates might be great at accountingRead More
Why High-Powered People Are Working in Their 80s

Why High-Powered People Are Working in Their 80s

They joke that retirement is boring, but some acknowledge a deeper fear of becoming irrelevant if they quit By Callum Borchers The first thing to know about people who shun retirement to work past age 80 is that they are probably busier, and possibly cooler, than you. One said an interview would have to waitRead More