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Sixty-one Percent of Workers are Seeking or Planning to Seek New Jobs
Public health crises past and present have caused labor shortages that ripped out and reworked the fabric of society. The Great Plague liberated serfs, the Spanish Flu brought women to the workplace, and COVID-19 is empowering modern employees to redefine work-life...
Hybrid and Remote Team Management Through Revising Performance Evaluations
The pandemic forced leaders to reconcile with the need for effective hybrid and remote team management strategies, including in performance evaluations. Research has shown the benefits of moving away from large-scale quarterly or annual performance reviews. Instead,...
How Curious Leaders Keep Your Business Agile
"Curiosity killed the cat." It’s time to turn this curious saying on its head. In leadership terms anyway. A curious leader isn’t one that micromanages their people, having to know everything and have a finger in every pie, so to speak. It is not a...
Gig Companies Are Disguising Exploitation as Social Justice
In November 2020, the people of California voted to pass Proposition 22, which classified workers for rideshare and delivery companies as independent contractors instead of employees. The ballot measure was a direct response to the California State Legislature...
Is This The Year for Gig Workers in Albany?
The fight to secure gig workers more employment rights and protections has been one of Albany’s more intractable policy issues for several years now. Powerful and deep-pocketed gig companies like Uber and DoorDash have long resisted efforts to reclassify gig workers...
Want to Give Your Delivery Driver a Fat Tip? ‘Gig’ Companies May Not Allow It
A 1994 movie called “It Could Happen To You” depicted a true story: Instead of giving a waitress a cash tip, a police officer told her he had purchased a lottery ticket and promised to split the proceeds with her if he won. He won $6 million, gave her $3 million and...
Protect Your Recruiting Investment with Strong Retention
There is an often-heard refrain among business leaders when talking about the process for hiring great people who become part of the team for the long haul: “attract / recruit / retain.” Too often, most of the effort goes into the recruiting activities. In fact, many...
We Must Physically Reconnect in a World of Remote Work
Many of us have spent little time in physical proximity with our colleagues over the past year, and this next chapter of work is likely to still include reduced in-person interaction. How do we minimize the cognitive and social impact of not being physically present...
