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THANK GOD FOR GALLUP, because if it weren’t for them, I doubt that anyone would be focusing very much on employee engagement these days. Just last week, Gallup came out with their latest installment of “How low can engagement go?” with this headline — U.S. Engagement Hits 11-Year Low. The subhed on the story told
IF YOU HAVE TO GO to a conference, there are few places better to do it than Las Vegas. Not only does the city have a giant Convention Center, but many large hotels — Caesars Palace, the Aria, the Venetian and Bellagio, Mandalay Bay, Wynn and Encore, MGM Grand, and the Red Rock Resort, just
HERE’S ANOTHER WRINKLE to the debate over remote and hybrid work — it’s called chronoworking. That’s not a word that rolls off the tongue easily, and it was new to me when I read a BBC Worklife story about it titled The ‘chronoworking’ productivity hack that helps workers excel. So, what is “chronoworking?” As BBC
THERE’S A TON of workplace jargon we all have to navigate, but here’s a new term to get your head around — “workplace friction.” This isn’t terribly new. Stanford Professor Bob Sutton — well known for his book The No Asshole Rule — says that workplace friction is “simply putting obstacles in front of people
YOU DON’T HEAR all that much about employee engagement anymore. It’s still an important metric for organizations to get a fix on the state of their workforce, but after years of debate and lots of money spent on how to improve engagement, it seems to be another thing that slipped away after the pandemic-driven lockdown.
Editor’s Note: This is my last blog post of the year. It’s a Skeptical Guy holiday classic from back in December 2018. See you in the New Year! I’VE WORKED THROUGH so many holiday seasons that I feel a little like Clark Griswold. If that name doesn’t ring a bell, the character should. It’s the role
Editor’s Note: I’ve been republishing some classic posts; here’s one from December 2021. GIVEN HOW CHAOTIC the last several years have been with lockdowns and other such calamities, nobody would blame you for being a Scrooge during the holidays. But, what if you just don’t identify with Scrooge? Perhaps a more contemporary grouch would be better
LEAVE IT TO GALLUP to point out an obvious workforce fact that most people don’t talk about — “58% of American workers work fully on-site and can’t do their jobs remotely.” Consider this the next battle in the war over remote employees returning to the office. Gallup notes that this gets lost in the ongoing
Editor’s Note: I’ve written a version of this weekly wrap-up for more than 20 years — from Workforce.com to TLNT.com to Fuel50. Now, I’m doing it here. Let me know what you think at johnhollon@yahoo.com. THERE HAS BEEN an ongoing debate since the pandemic started to wind down, and it comes down to one basic
Editor’s Note: I’ve been republishing some classic Skeptical Guy posts while preparing a new project. This one is from December 2018. HERE’S A GOOD QUESTION I almost never, ever hear anyone ask much less answer: How can I be a better manager? That may be because most of the advice on being a better manager only
