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40% of Americans Would Rather Clean Their Toilets Than Commute to Work: Poll
Tens of millions of Americans have strong feelings about not returning to their offices full time—or commuting to get there. How strong? According to a report released today by RingCentral, 40% would rather clean their toilet at home than commute to their brick-and-mortar or other pre-pandemic...
Biden Admin Considering Vaccine Mandate For Businesses With Fewer Than 100 Employees
OSHA rule for big businesses forces employees to be vaccinated or wear masks and get weekly COVID-19 tests. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) says it is "seeking comment" about whether businesses with fewer than 100 employees should be subject to the COVID-19 vaccine and...
Retirees Are ‘Unretiring’ — and That’s Good for the Labor Market
Key Points The “unretirement” rate, which measures those who switch from retirement to employment, has been accelerating, according to an analysis by Nick Bunker, an economist at Indeed. This is good news for the labor market, and speaks to improving public health and job-related factors like...
Millions of People Quit Their Jobs in the ‘Great Resignation’. Here Is Why It May Not Last Long
Key Points Over the past several months, a rapidly growing number of Americans left their jobs – more than 4.4 million alone in September. The move has become known as the “Great Resignation,” but the picture is more complicated. It all adds up to a jobs market in which people leaving their...
Don’t Soften Feedback
When I talk about balancing being directive and empowering as a leader, the distinction between being kind and being nice often comes up. Sometimes, folks who have to deliver hard-to-hear feedback soften it to the point where their teammate doesn’t clearly understand what they should do next. This...
How to Get Useful Feedback from Liars
People lie to leaders. Usually it’s not malicious, but it’s always unhelpful. Team members who aspire to get along or get ahead… Soften criticism. Deflect tough answers. Over-state compliments. Authority corrupts interactions. If your team treated you like a subordinate, you might receive useful...
Can Agile Make Wherever You Work a Better Place?
The Great Resignation continues to gather steam as people in their millions re-evaluate their relationship with work. But not everyone has the luxury or the bandwidth to quit, at least not right now. And there is no guarantee that a new job won’t be as much of a soul-destroying destination as your...
Allegation of 19 Calls, Without More, Did Not Violate FDCPA
An Ohio district court granted a debt collector’s motion for summary judgment, finding that an allegation of 19 calls over a one-year period without any evidence that the calls were intended to annoy, abuse, or harass the consumer did not violate the FDCPA. Background:A consumer sued a debt...
How Businesses Can Secure Data from Shared Files After Employees Leave
The most common collaboration tools allow admins to capture and reassign important information. A decade ago, businesses struggled to build collaborative workplaces because the technology to facilitate teamwork simply didn’t exist. The advent of modern office productivity suites changed that...