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How can we resolve the US’s 3-million-person labor shortage that may last the decade without raising unemployment? Simple. We can do it by making smart changes to immigration policy. Employers, by large majorities, believe the US immigration system should be…
Read More Spark economic growth by modernizing the US workplace immigration system
According to The Conference Board, US workers have never been more content, despite the pandemic, quiet quitting, quiet firing, and the forwards and backwards over hybrid working. Overall job satisfaction among US workers increased in 2022 to its highest point…
Read More Job satisfaction at all-time high thanks to hybrid working and job switching.
Google researchers launched Project Oxygen 15 years ago to understand what makes people great managers. In 2018, some 10 years after Google’s original report, its researchers looked again at their results to understand if the initial findings had held true…
Read More Google’s 10 Behaviors of Great Managers continue to succeed!
Many organizations are implementing cost-cutting measures. I have been stunned to learn that some companies are trying to cut costs by recalling hybrid and remote employees to the office and are thinking about implementing forced ranking with the intention of…
Read More Don’t allow these two strategies to be part of your cost-cutting plans.
Last week, I was fired up by an article in the New York Times, “Laid Off in Your Living Room: The Chaos of Remote Job Cuts.” I posted the article and my comment on LinkedIn. From my profile page and…
It is time to forget about Quiet Quitting and Quiet Firing. Instead, think about the Pareto Principle from physics and microeconomics, commonly known as the 80/20 rule. Your goal should be to figure out how to expand the 20 percentage…
Executives are in a quandary. The economy is growing but the Federal Reserve is determined to reduce inflation to two percent. With US workers in short supply, it is not wise to lay off this precious resource unless your business…
Surveys show that the war over hybrid, remote, and office-based work continues. It is a conflict that about two-thirds of current remote and hybrid workers are willing to quit over. And the number of employees working remotely or in hybrid…
Last week’s announcements by Meta (11,000 employees let go), Twitter (3,700), Stripe (1,100), and Lyft (700) turned heads as the high-tech stalwarts of the US economy stumbled. Previously, Coinbase, Shopify, Netflix, Microsoft, Snap, Robinhood, and Tesla had cut employees. When companies…
Read More Don’t be stupid with layoffs. Follow these 7 best practices.
This week we celebrate Veteran's Day so let's remember our Vets. According to the US General Accountability Office, about 200,000 US veterans leave the military and enter the civilian workforce each year, and they have excellent skills. Hiring veterans is…
Read More Six strategies to improve your ability to attract and hire veterans
