#workplace-culture

#workplace-culture

With the exception of a client's building burning down, any rush job means that someone, somewhere, didn't do his or her job. So if an account executive wound up having a rush job, he or she wasn't allowed to blithely make the request and then go home for the night. Instead, if the creative team was staying late, the account executive had to stay late too. Amazing how that cut down on rush jobs.

After the work-centric hustle culture of the 2010s, then the backlash and widespread burnout brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic, the general feeling around work right now could be described as ambivalent at best. At worst, it's openly combative, as evinced by frequent references to the battle over working from home. Managers want employees back in the office; employees want flexibility, and to limit work's impact on their lives.

To leverage employee feedback effectively, businesses must sort data to identify patterns which reflect employee behavior or opinions that require extra attention.

Low-performer quotas can lead to some "mea culpa" moments for managers - especially if a manager has been telling their team they're all aces.

"Employees do their own research, and they are already making assumptions about pay. The conventional approach to keeping salaries secret might be damaging employee morale."

A reduction in support and responsibilities signifies that a manager is trying to extinguish an employee's ability to grow, indicating the use of quiet firing tactics.

Employee spotlight templates are pre-designed formats used by a company to consistently and engagingly highlight individual employees' achievements, stories, roles, or personalities.

As a young lawyer in the early aughts, my first months as an in-house general counsel were chaotic. The previous counsel had left abruptly weeks before I arrived, and there was no one to fill me in on the multitude of open cases and ongoing projects.

Verge's new initiative helps organizations gain clarity about their direction and offerings. The organization provides an employee survey to assess organizational health.

"On the surface, it might look like we're having more open conversations at work—but beneath that is a culture of fear and self-silencing."

Jack Ma called the 996 working schedule a 'huge blessing' for workers, stating that many people lack the opportunity to work such hours. He claimed that if one doesn't work 996 while young, when will they do it?

Even if you're working in a restaurant serving hamburgers in a very repeatable kind of a fashion, your style, your way of talking to them, your way of presenting the food is unique to you.

Astronomer has placed CEO Andy Byron on leave after he was filmed embracing HR head Kristin Cabot at a Coldplay concert, prompting an investigation.

We're so 'connected' that we've become fragmented. We're so efficient we've forgotten how to think critically. We rely so much on technology that our cognitive skills are in decline.

"Compassion moves beyond an empathic desire to understand into engagement - doing something to make things better. It combines the desire or motivation to act with acting to alleviate suffering and promote well-being."

According to Deloitte's Gen Z and Millennial Survey, nearly half of millennials and Gen Z workers said they would leave their jobs within two years if their company's values didn't align with their own.

Creating a sense of belonging is crucial for workplace satisfaction, as more than half of employees cite a lack of belonging as a primary reason for quitting.

They are not mad about the letters, they're mad about the mission. And unless you are changing your mission, you will not ease the attack.