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| Feb 20, 2025 | The Ultimate Guide to Employee Benefits | What Are Employee Benefits
Employee benefits are non-wage compensations you provide to your employees alongside their regular salaries or wages. These perks are designed to support their well-being, boost job satisfaction, and position your... |
| Sep 25, 2024 | A Neuroscientist Is More Efficient Than Ever After Making 3 Simple Changes That Take Advantage of When Her Brain Works Best Data suggests the brain is better at performing certain tasks at certain times of the day. |
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Mithu Storoni, a neuroscientist and expert on mental stress, made three "radical" changes to the way she works after writing her latest book on optimizing workflow.
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| Aug 17, 2024 | The Health-Leadership Connection: Why Fit Leaders Thrive in Business | In today’s fast-paced corporate world, the connection between health and leadership is more vital than ever. The landscape is changing. CEOs and managers are no longer just business strategists; they are also health advocates. The modern le... |
| Aug 16, 2024 | Being Fit Is Not Just Good For Your Health—It's Also Good For Business The connection between health and leadership is veritable. | Every other day, you will find some CEO or the other on social media touting their 5am head starts, 6am workouts, and intermittent fasting schedules. Health, fitness, and even longevity are increasingly becoming more prevalent among Silicon... |
| Dec 9, 2023 | Making your job suck less means upending the workplace as we know it | Careers Making your job suck less means upending the workplace as we know it
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| Dec 9, 2023 | A simple workplace solution: flexibility | Careers A simple workplace solution: flexibility
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| Oct 26, 2023 | What Businesses Are Getting Wrong About Employee Productivity | Many of the processes and policies businesses default to when trying to drive increased employee ... [+] productivity and engagement actually end up having the opposite effect.getty |
| Sep 20, 2023 | Remote work may help decrease sexual assault and harassment, poll finds | This article was written by Chabeli Carrazana for The 19th. It is republished here with permission via a Creative Commons license.
Leslie Pineda’s boss first told her he had feelings for her in early 2021, when she stayed late one night to ... |
| Aug 15, 2023 | Software Engineers Could Get 30% Time Back Thanks To Generative AI | Image: peshkova/Adobe Stock
There’s no doubt that the last few years have represented a turbulent period for employees. The pandemic turned the working lives of many knowledge and tech workers upside down to begin with, then swiftly followe... |
| Jul 30, 2023 | How Women Can Be More Assertive At Work | Women can be more assertive at work by self-promoting.getty |
| Jul 26, 2023 | Номад или цифровой кочевник: плюсы и минусы. И как создать глобальную эффективную команду цифровых кочевников | А вам есть что добавить? Поделитесь своим опытом.
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| Jun 21, 2023 | Amplified Chaos: The Hidden Dangers Of “I’m Busy” In An AI-Fueled World | "I'm busy" has become a coveted badge of honor, a symbol of importance, status, and efficiency. But ... [+] what is the impact of incessant busyness? And what are we sacrificing to wear that badge?getty |
| Jun 2, 2023 | 5 Daily Behaviors To Crack The Stress Cycle And Prevent Job Burnout | There are five easy and quick steps to interrupt the stress cycle at work and prevent job burnout.getty |
| May 14, 2023 | Why Return-To-Office Mandates Will Backfire | Return-to-office mandates will ultimately backfire.getty |
| May 12, 2023 | How To Mitigate Burnout Within Your Organization | Andrew Rahaman, Ed.D and co-founder of bluSPARC™, focuses on succession management through executive coaching, onboarding and assessments. |
| Apr 30, 2023 | How Leaders Are Enticing Workers Back Into The Office | Employees commutinggetty |
| Apr 17, 2023 | Why Do Bosses Try To Get Workers Back To The Office? They Don’t Know How To Build A Culture Of Remote Collaboration | Business owner discussing ideas with colleagues on video callgetty |
| Apr 6, 2023 | How much should you care about your job? | Redeem now
The insidious creep of job burnout was inescapable when I spoke with more than a dozen ambitious midcareer women for an article last winter. They described how the dynamics of their remote workplaces, coupled with pandemic-relate... |
| Feb 7, 2023 | New Outlook On Burnout For 2023: Limitations On What Managers Can Do | As we entered the new year, the American workforce was on a continued path to job burnout. But are ... [+] managers, who are trying to put out the fire, burning out, too?getty |
| Dec 29, 2022 | Эксперты CNBC назвали «красные флаги» работы, предупреждающие о высоком риске выгорания | Согласно октябрьскому опросу исследовательской платформы Future Forum Pulse, основанной Slack, около 40% сотрудников жалуются на выгорание, причиной которого становится хронический стресс. Одна из особенностей этого состояния — умственное и... |
| Dec 9, 2022 | The New Workspace Challenge: From A Handful Of People One Day To Hundreds The Next | Kristina Johnson is Okta’s Chief People Officer, leading the organization’s global People function. |
| Nov 25, 2022 | Секрет удержания сотрудников, который не стоит компаниям ничего | Можно вспомнить пример той же Best Buy. Они еще в 2000-е годы поняли, что люди больше не хотят гибкого расписания — они хотят полностью контролировать своё время. И дали полную свободу своим офисным сотрудникам: разрешили им работать где и ... |
| Nov 21, 2022 | Creating the ‘joy of missing out’ at Guru | After leaving a job of eight years and moving from the other side of the county, Julia Soffa was in a New York taxi when she received the email that changed the course of her career.
It was days after she had an interview at Guru, a knowled... |
| Nov 18, 2022 | Could the 6-hour work day succeed In Europe? | With new notions of quiet quitting and hybrid working, the old ideas of living to work and being chronically busy now seem outdated as the pandemic ushered in a new era of achieving work-life balance through a variety of means.
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| Nov 3, 2022 | Workers Are Less Productive Working Remotely (At Least That’s What Their Bosses Think) | Woman sitting in a hammock and working with a notebook on January 12, 2010 in Varkala near ... [+] Trivandrum, Kerala, India. (Photo by EyesWideOpen/Getty Images)Getty Images |
| Oct 25, 2022 | Almost Half of Young Workers Are Burnt Out, Flexibility Can Help | As business leaders continue to iron out their post-Covid strategy, companies like Netflix and Goldman Sachs believe spending more time in the office is the best way to unlock a more engaged, productive workforce. However, a new study by Fu... |
| Oct 20, 2022 | Move over WFH, hello 'work whenever': 94% of employees want to ditch the 9-to-5 for flexible schedules, new survey says | According to Future Forum VP Brian Elliott, employees who aren't satisfied with their company's level of flexibility are still at a "strong risk" of walking. Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty Images
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| Oct 20, 2022 | I listed 'sex work' on LinkedIn and caused a viral uproar. This is the last time I'll defend that choice. | BI Graphics Anna Kim Opinion
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| Oct 14, 2022 | Worried work from home is preventing your promotion? | There’s no doubt working from home has its perks. There’s greater flexibility during the day (for that quick gym session/dog walk/nap), your commute is short (very short), and you can wear pyjamas 24/7 (although we don’t recommend it).
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| Oct 12, 2022 | You’re going back to the office. Your boss isn’t. | The relationship between rank-and-file office workers and their bosses has never been equal. But remote work is creating a new kind of imbalance between certain people in leadership and their employees, and it’s stirring up resentment at wo... |
| Sep 13, 2022 | How BIPOC employees are impacted by workplace digital communication tools | Earlier this year, Loom surveyed more than 3,000 working adults in the US and UK about their experiences and opinions surrounding digital communication tools at work. The report sheds light on how these tools -- from traditional email to mo... |
| Sep 9, 2022 | Is remote working destroying us? | In July, Malcolm Gladwell caused a workplace-related kerfuffle. The author said on the Diary of a CEO podcast that, “It's not in your best interest to work at home. I know it's a hassle to come to the office, but if you're just sitting in y... |
| Sep 7, 2022 | If Employers Would Measure Performance, Rather Than Showing Up, There Wouldn’t Be A Market For ‘Mouse Jigglers’ | The fact that there’s a thriving market for "mouse jigglers" is because some bosses still don’t ... [+] trust their employees.getty |
| Jul 25, 2022 | How Zero-Trust Network Architecture Can Empower The Employee-First Working Environment | Senior Vice President, Products, Sophos. |
| Jun 10, 2022 | Why the return to the office isn’t working | Andres is back to the office three days a week, and like many knowledge workers, he’s not happy about it. He says that while he and the other executive assistants at his Boston law firm have been forced back, the attorneys haven’t been foll... |
| May 2, 2022 | How Chronic Work Stress Damages Your Brain And 10 Things You Can Do | Chronic work stress can damage your brain, but there are steps you can take to mitigate this harm. getty |
| Apr 27, 2022 | Why Optimizing Employee Performance Is The Future Of Work | Ray Carey, CEO Optimere. |
| Apr 21, 2022 | As Employees Return to the Office, Their Bosses are Staying Home | Looking for another reason to be annoyed at your boss? According to a recent survey from Future Forum, executives are half as likely return to the office full-time as employees – despite widespread return-to-office mandates.
As an increasin... |
| Apr 13, 2022 | CFOs Should Consider Structured Flexibility With Return-To-Office Plans | Applying structured flexibility to office return leaves room for course corrections. getty |
| Mar 15, 2022 | Future of work startup anywell emerges from stealth with $15M in funding to provide a new way to work remotely | If there is one lesson we all learned from this pandemic, it is that remote work is critical to the existence of any business. The pandemic has now accelerated the future of remote work. Before the pandemic began in February 2020, only abou... |
| Feb 1, 2022 | What the CFOs of 3M, Kimberly-Clark, Whirlpool and Caterpillar are saying about inflation | This is the web version of CFO Daily, a newsletter on the trends and individuals shaping corporate finance. Sign up to get it delivered free to your inbox.
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Wall Street predicts the Federal Reserve will issue as many as seven i... |
| Feb 1, 2022 | Remote work isn’t the problem. Work is. | Employees want to work from home. Their bosses, however, can’t wait to get back to the office. Knowledge workers think being remote makes their jobs better, while managers worry the arrangement could cause the quality of work to suffer. But... |
| Jan 26, 2022 | Why more Americans than ever are starting their own businesses | While millions of Americans are quitting their jobs in search of better employment, many of them are doing so in the hope of never having to work for someone else ever again.
The pandemic has, at least for the time being, halted — and perha... |
| Jan 25, 2022 | Slack survey: 72% of those dissatisfied with their company’s work location rules will leave | Image: GettyImages/vgajic
A Pulse survey conducted by Future Forum, a consortium launched by Slack with founding partners Boston Consulting Group, MillerKnoll and MLT, found that hybrid work has become the dominant model among employees aro... |
| Jan 24, 2022 | Секрет удержания сотрудников, который не стоит компаниям ничего | Парадоксально, но без этого сотрудники уходят в два раза чаще.
Мы находимся в центре Великого Увольнения. По этому поводу за рубежом все бьют в набат. Работники, уставшие на фоне пандемии, увольняются, надеясь, что на следующем месте им буд... |
| Jan 10, 2022 | Teaching Must Get More Flexible Before It Falls Apart | The Great Renegotiation is coming for schools.
According to national data, schools are not facing greater teacher vacancies this year than in years past. But if you’re reading this article—if you’re engaged enough in education to be reading... |
| Dec 14, 2021 | Is Executive-Employee Disconnect Fuelling Mass Resignations? | A global survey published by business communications platform Slack has suggested that disconnect between executives and employees could be driving the “great resignation.”
Whilst executives are keen to get back to the office and overwhelmi... |
| Dec 8, 2021 | 13 reasons that help explain the labor shortage in the US | This year, businesses have been reporting difficulty filling open jobs, as workers quit at record highs.
Businesses call it a “labor shortage”, but it’s a complicated mix of many different economic factors.
Those include childcare, systemic... |
| Dec 1, 2021 | Yes, there are best practices to keep diverse talent from joining the Great Resignation | This is the web version of CFO Daily, a newsletter on the trends and individuals shaping corporate finance. Sign up to get it delivered free to your inbox.
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Diverse talent at your company is most likely eyeing the exit as the G... |
| Nov 22, 2021 | Office holiday parties are back and smaller than ever | People either love or hate office holiday parties. Pretty much everyone hates virtual office holiday parties. As we enter the second pandemic holiday season, both types of events — meant to celebrate employees and humanize bosses — are back... |
| Oct 19, 2021 | How Enterprise CXOs Can Attract Top Tech Talent | The market for tech talent is hyper-competitive as traditional enterprises are moving through rapid transformations and well-capitalized startups are scaling quickly. Our last quarterly CXO Advisory Board call focused on how Enterprise CXOs... |
| Oct 14, 2021 | The CEO of Base explains why each hire is a ‘cultural cofounder’, contrasting company values, and more | In a fifth article in a series with Slack Fund portfolio companies which explore their growth stores and the role they play in creating the future of work, Jason Spinell, head of Slack Fund, sits down with Paige McPheely, CEO and Co-Founder... |
| Oct 14, 2021 | Employee Experience in 2022 and Beyond: Q&A with David Ostbe | The world of work is changing faster than we've ever witnessed. Here's what employee experience expert David Ostberg predicts will be the top priorities and challenges related to employee experience in 2022.
As business leaders try to navig... |
| Oct 7, 2021 | Вдали от коллектива: как изменилось обучение в условиях дистанционной работы | Сейчас Сара Ломакс работает специалистом по развитию бизнеса. Она пришла в эту сферу из СМИ, и ей было вдвойне тяжело адаптироваться: новой была не только должность, но и благотворительный сектор в целом. Она с самого начала понимала, что е... |
| Jul 22, 2021 | DoorDash's Hybrid Work Plan: Committing to Flexibility | After collaborating with leaders and employees across DoorDash, we've decided that in January 2022, we will transition from our official work-from-home (WFH) guidance to a hybrid work model for all our corporate employees.* Recognizing that... |
| Jun 24, 2021 | 7 attitude adjustments managers must make to succeed in a hybrid office plan | Laptop and tablets have grown in popularity while people have been working from home
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It’s tempting to think that the pandemic is over, even though the Delta variant of COVID-19 is spreading rapidly throu... |
| Jun 16, 2021 | SLACK TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Slack Technologies : Winning the war for talent in the post-pandemic world | SAN FRANCISCO, June 17, 2021-The Future Forum, a consortium launched by Slack Technologies, Inc., (NYSE: WORK) to help companies reimagine work in the new digital-first workplace, is releasing a new global study that unpacks how 15 months o... |
| Dec 10, 2020 | The Art Of Asynchronous: Optimizing Efficiency In Remote Teams | Since the pandemic began, organizations have struggled to convert remote operations to a more sustainable model. A major contributing factor comes from a deep reliance on real-time, synchronous communication, compensating for lack of struct... |
| Sep 23, 2020 | Base, the first-ever platform built for assistants, launches a free plan to support assistants worldwide | |
| 6 things job seekers really want right now | The Great Resignation, the term coined for the record number of people who have left their jobs since the beginning of the pandemic, is far from over.
In fact, it’s “continuing apace” according to the World Economic Forum, citing a major ne... |
| «Директор по удалёнке»: нужна ли должность? | Александра Кукуть 9 ноября 2021, 09:17 2021-11-09 «Директор по удалёнке»: нужна ли должность?
Наладить продуктивную работу в удалённом или смешанном формате довольно непросто — здесь согласится, пожалуй, любая компания, которая на это решил... |
| I ‘missed the watercooler talk’: 3 women on WFH, RTO and trying to find the perfect work-life balance | As the debate over the merits of in-person versus remote work continues to rage in companies and cities throughout the U.S., one thing has become painstakingly clear: There is no right answer.
Some people have returned to the office full ti... |
| Your next job could include a do-over interview and a role for your BFF | A new Deloitte survey found that Gen Z and millennials prioritize a positive workplace culture, where employees feel a sense of belonging. Maskot/Getty Images This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and... |
| Great bosses encourage these 3 things in the workplace to boost employee success, says CEO: ‘It’s a big’ deal | Imagine this: You go to the office to grab your morning coffee and some conversation with your team. You complete a few assignments while there, and whatever you don’t finish gets tackled from home after you head out for the day around 3 p.... |
| Burnout is on the rise worldwide—and Gen Z, young millennials and women are the most stressed | Burnout from workplace stress is at an all-time high since spring 2021, according to new research from Future Forum.
Of 10,243 full-time desk-based workers polled in six countries including the United States and the United Kingdom, over 40%... |
| The 10 best U.S. companies for work-life balance, according to Glassdoor | More than two years after more people started working from home, flexibility remains a highly sought-after benefit among the workforce.
A whopping 94% of people desire a flexible work schedule, according to new research from Future Forum, S... |
| Goldman Sachs wants workers back in office 5 days a week—‘a stampede’ of other companies could follow, experts say | Goldman Sachs is asking employees to return to the office 5 days a week, according to Fortune, who published an interview with the investment firm's CEO David Solomon last week.
It comes five weeks after a botched attempt to get Goldman Sac... |
| Adidas has lured employees back to campus with free meals and fitness classes. The strategy has benefits and limitations, experts say. | Adidas' North American headquarters in Portland, Oregon. Adidas This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
Adidas' US workers returned to the office on a hybrid schedule on April 18.... |
| The office friendship is dead. That's bad for all of us — especially our employers. | This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
In the mid-1980s, when Jim Harter was starting out as a young analyst at Gallup, the polling and analytics firm, he was tasked with figurin... |
| What Do #lazygirljobs Say About Our Response to Burnout Culture? | Do you manage a reasonable workload, clock off at 5pm on the dot, and benefit from a nice salary? If so, you may be working a #lazygirljob.
What started as a throw-away video from TikToker @gabrielle_judge has snowballed into a global movem... |
| CEOs are quietly backtracking on remote work—and more companies could follow | More companies are backtracking on earlier pledges to let employees work from home on a full or part-time basis.
Across industries, major corporations including Disney, Twitter and Starbucks are requiring employees to spend more time at the... |
| The 10 best states to look for a remote job in right now, according to new research | The remote job market has exploded over the past two years — and the flexible work revolution doesn't look like it will lose momentum anytime soon.
In the U.S., 69% of people are working either fully remote or hybrid, according to Future Fo... |
| Employees are twice as likely as executives to work from the office full-time, despite return-to-office mandates | More companies are calling their employees back to the office, with some resorting to perks like free meals and electric scooters to entice people to return.
Executives have often led the charge to return to in-person work — yet new researc... |
| The quits keep coming and hiring managers are scrambling to fill vacancies. Here's what employers misunderstand about the Great Resignation. | Almost half of employees are looking for a new job or plan to soon, according to a survey by Willis Towers Watson. Three Spots/Getty Images This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.... |
| Entrepreneurs say offering generous parental leave has helped them stay competitive in a tough labor market — here's how | Small businesses that provide extensive paid parental leave said it's been beneficial for them in terms of making hires and driving revenue. MoMo Productions/Getty Images This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an... |
| The top 7 industries hiring for hybrid jobs right now, according to FlexJobs | After two years of working from home, some people have realized that they thrive in a remote environment, while others miss the office – but most people have decided that they want the best of both worlds.
Future Forum, Slack’s research con... |
| 50% of companies want workers back in office 5 days a week–why experts say this strategy could fail | After two years of working from home – and seeing return-to-office plans derailed by new Covid-19 variants – a growing number of companies are eager to get employees back to the office.
About 50% of leaders say their company already require... |
| Prevent burnout by spotting these red and green flags before taking the job | We have a new epidemic, and it’s not Covid-19.
About 40% of employees say they are burned out, according to an October report by Slack’s Future Forum Pulse, a quarterly survey of more than 10,000 knowledge workers globally. That’s an 8% jum... |
| Flexible work arrangements can help companies become more diverse and inclusive—here's how | People have hailed the advantages of working from home throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, but an unexpected benefit has emerged in recent months: Flexible work models are helping companies hire more diverse candidates.
Flexible work policies... |
| Expect ‘huge battles’ over working from home between employees and bosses soon, says Stanford professor who’s studied remote work for 20 years | Flexible work arrangements have become non-negotiable for job-seekers and employees alike — so much so that people now value such flexibility as much as a 10% pay raise, according to new research from the WFH Research Project. But not all c... |
| PwC invests $2.4 billion in salaries, PTO and training to keep existing workers happy and attract new ones | Image: Luis Alvarez/Getty
PwC is adding more company-wide vacation time to its annual calendar, expanding parental leave and giving everyone a raise as part of a new employee experience program. The new My+ program is a $2.4 billion investm... |
| Making sense of why executives are eager to get employees back in the office | Studies show there’s an executive-employee disconnect about returning to the office.
Executive excitement about returning to the office may suggest old-school thinking about employment, or it may be an important symbolic step in post-pandem... |
| The age of the tyrannical boss is over — and managers who don't give employees more freedom will face a talent reckoning | This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
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| Bosses want to work from home more than employees do, says new survey—but they’re still pushing RTO requirements | In the years-long debate over remote work, upper-level executives have often been the loudest — and staunchest — advocates for returning to the office.
But many bosses want to work from home as much as, if not more than, their employees do,... |
| The top 10 companies hiring for hybrid jobs in 2022, according to FlexJobs | If you’re dreading the thought of returning to an office full-time, you’re not alone.
Future Forum, Slack’s research consortium, spoke with over 10,000 knowledge workers in January and found that 68% of people prefer a flexible, hybrid work... |
| A 4-Day Work Week Could Be Coming to Your State | Workers rejoice — Maryland could be the first US state to adopt a 4-day work week, if a bill that's just been proposed by legislators makes it into law.
The bill, known officially as the “Four Day Work Week Act of 2023”, incentivizes both p... |
| Workers are stressing over returning to the office. Flexibility is key if employers want to reduce employees' anxiety and retain talent. | Getty Images This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
Companies are bringing people back to the office, but workers aren't happy. Employees in a recent survey reported the highest ... |
