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Research Shows U.S. Gig Workers Are Underprepared For Retirement
When viewed through a British lens, one of the big questions of the American economy is how the tireless U.S. worker ever manages to retire. It’s been less than a century (1934) since FDR established Social Security as a measure to provide for Americans past their...
The Real Reason Bosses Are Freaked Out By Remote Work
Ever since COVID began to recede, America's CEOs have been waging a determined campaign to haul their employees back into the office. Big banks led the charge, ordering everyone back to their cubicles and threatening to fire those who refused to comply. In recent...
How Your Business Can Empower Women In The Workplace
According to Pew Research Center, 42% of U.S. working women say they’ve experienced on-the-job gender discrimination. Discrimination can take many forms, including lower wages, fewer career opportunities and different attitudes toward motherhood, among others....
The Mechanics Of Entrepreneurship
Forget the myth of the hermetic genius working in the garage on the next world-changing startup. It’s time to upgrade that thinking and pay more attention to how much entrepreneurial innovation is woven into the fabric of daily life. So says Derek Lidow, a Princeton...
Leadership Is More Than Just Efficiency And Processes
Some argue that there are many unethical, weak, vindictive, or inaccessible leaders out there and we should consider replacing them with machines. After all, isn’t leadership all about getting things done as efficiently and fairly as possible? If we improve our...
How Do Flexible Hours Impact Employee Mental Health?
Flexible working hours are the new demand of the hour when we want to implement digital HR transformation in modern firms. Without any doubt, it is gaining popularity and becoming more commonplace in organisations across India. An employee-controlled...
Reverse Mentoring: A Key To HR Innovation?
When Tawanna Myers goes grocery shopping, it’s inevitable: She says she always gets talking to employees or fellow shoppers, and ends up learning their stories and sharing her own—creating informal mentorship opportunities. “I recently found at least three...
As ChatGPT Impacts The Workplace, AI Training Should Be Priority
There’s no doubt that more and more people are embracing ChatGPT in the workplace. An online survey conducted in March by learning-management system TalentLMS found that many people had used ChatGPT for work purposes. However, relatively few had been trained...
