By Brian Formato It looks like 2023 will be a year of contractions in the labor market. Companies are conducting layoffs, planning layoffs, or freezing their head counts in anticipation of the shrinking revenue growth forecast for this year. With tougher economic...

by the Staff at Great Place to Work For many companies, work will never look the same. And we believe that is a good thing. —DJ Casto, Synchrony As a return to in-person work faces continued scrutiny, workers’ relationships to the corporate office and the future of...

By Brian Anderson Because a business’s most valuable asset is its workforce, employee retention is likely one of its top priorities. In the current job market, though, retention is becoming increasingly difficult. Although many organizations take proactive steps to...

By Rachel Morgan When it comes to pay transparency, there’s a disconnect between vision and reality. Although one recent study found that two-thirds of organizations surveyed “view pay transparency as increasingly important,”1 only a little over 23 percent of workers...

By Pete Hinojosa  The latest buzzword in the business world is “quiet quitting”—which, contrary to what its name seems to imply, isn’t actually about leaving a job. An outgrowth of the Great Resignation, quiet quitting is a trend (one that’s getting a lot of attention...

By Valerie M. Grubb As the business world continues to rebound from the pandemic, many companies are taking to heart the lessons they learned during nearly three years of staffing challenges. While putting a renewed focus on their current employees, they’re also...

By FutureSense  A business is only as strong as its employees. When they grow dissatisfied and aren’t delivering their best work (or are leaving to join other companies), the organization starts to falter and will soon find itself running on borrowed time. By...

By Juan Betancourt  Every day, companies roll out employee engagement surveys and find themselves with some interesting insights. And every day, most of them don’t know how to use those insights to truly improve performance and the employee experience. Clearly, change...

By Jessica Miller-Merrell Every employee needs a vacation now and then, whether it’s a two-week trip to the Bahamas or a single day off for mental health. It’s incredibly important for organizations to have a consistent vacation policy spelled out in their handbooks...

By Linda Brenner Whether a candidate applies for a role because they are actively drawn to a particular organization, because they stumble upon an open positive via a general search on Indeed, or because a sourcer found and wooed them, the job posting is almost always...