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‘People think they can distract you more’: Remote workers grapple with work ethic stigma

April 22, 2024

We spoke to several remote workers to better understand what people are still saying in their lives when it comes to remote work.

‘I’ll interrupt them back’: Micro-feminism is taking off in the workplace

April 22, 2024

Women online are sharing all the small changes they make in the workplace to recognize and fight unconscious bias.

Inside H&R Block’s return to office mandate reversal

April 29, 2024

A third of its regular population lives outside of Kansas City and for those located in the area, 9 percent remain fully remote.

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May 29, 2024

Agencies hope connected TV and digital out-of-home will play a bigger role in upcoming elections and politics — especially for smaller media agencies that are handling many of the less visible races in the crowded political space. For a number of media agencies looking to place their political ad dollars down in this major election […]

What employers can expect from 2024 graduates

May 02, 2024

While 67% of 2024 grads are confident they can find a job that builds their career, half are concerned about covering basic expenses

How employers are supporting their employees at and outside of work — and why they should

April 09, 2024

Between the pressures of day-to-day life, compounded by macro-level stressors, many employees are understandably overwhelmed — and some are even caught in a state of permacrisis, the word coined for the feeling of persistent crisis.

Here are some lessons from former Levi’s and Vodafone chief AI officer

May 02, 2024

Katia Walsh held the chief AI officer title as early as 2015 at Vodafone to scale data and AI capabilities across its customer footprint. 

How manager complicity is driving toxic workplaces

May 01, 2024

Employees believe toxicity at work comes down to one defining characteristic: how their direct manager behaves.

Stigma around tattoos at work has shifted — but some bias still remains

April 30, 2024

Despite becoming more widely accepted in recent years, some hiring managers still hold their own ideas about employing someone with tattoos.

WTF Explainers

WTF is an emotional paycheck?

April 10, 2024

Workers today want to be compensated with more intangible benefits, like flexibility and better work life balance.

WTF are microcultures? (and why they are important in workplaces today)

February 14, 2024

Getting hybrid arrangements right requires embracing specific team cultures more than single corporate cultures, experts say.

WTF is applied improvisation? (and why it’s popular in RTO transitions)

February 08, 2024

Companies are leveraging improv training to help staff brush up on their interpersonal and communication skills as they return to offices.

Special Edition
Gen Z Workforce: Reshaping Careers in the AI Era

From navigating wildly varied return-to-office policies in a post-pandemic working world in flux, to working in the shadows of AI, Gen Zers are creating a whole new workforce to suit their needs. This editorial series examines how AI will influence, reshape and evolve career development for this generation, and how exactly they’re using the tech for work.

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The Return

Editorial series

How the pandemic changed parents’ relationships with their kids and jobs

April 02, 2024

It’s been four years since Covid-19 brought the world to a halt, but the reality is that many parents are still trying to repair the serious psychological damage those early years of the pandemic had on their children. And there have been some extreme reverberations.

‘It’s a myth that men don’t do night feeds’: Confessions of a stressed out working dad

March 28, 2024

For this latest installment of WorkLife’s Confessions, in which we exchange anonymity for candor, we spoke to a working dad who is a senior executive at a global retailer, about his daily challenges.

‘Make it work for you’: Which flexible business cultures are reaping profits and retaining talent

March 25, 2024

Jasmine Dawson, svp of digital at BBC Studios, is a mother of two children (ages 2 and 7) and has made it her mission to embed flexible working into her team of 130 people — working parents and nonparents alike.

Leadership

‘More energized by their work’: How Shopify’s dual-track promotion plan is working out

March 27, 2024

Employers are seeing higher retention when successful individual contributors aren’t forced into management positions.

‘You get the union you deserve’: Middle managers need more help handling staff union efforts

March 18, 2024

In recent years white collar workers in some industries like tech have attempted to organize, putting their managers in a tricky situation.

‘Being a leader, I learned, is not easy’: The employees who left middle management

March 12, 2024

Over 40% of managers with less than two years of managerial experience are currently looking for new jobs.

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WorkLife Awards

Company culture has never been more important for organizations looking to attract and retain the best talent and the strongest cultures are built on values that run deep throughout the organization. The WorkLife Awards will recognize the top employers and the values that make them unique.