Insperity
SEPTEMBER 24, 2024
A robust human resources (HR) infrastructure is like the foundation of a house: If it’s not there or your HR administration is unwieldy and ineffective, everything falls apart at a company. On the flip side, a well-built HR infrastructure with streamlined and efficient HR administration is the base that supports many of a company’s successes. It’s also the secret behind doing HR well.
Spiceworks
SEPTEMBER 24, 2024
We love to hate buzzwords. but what happens after some time has passed? Peter Tsai takes a deep dive into how some of 2022's biggest buzzwords have held up. The post The Top Tech Buzzwords of 2024, According to Google Trends appeared first on Spiceworks Inc.
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McKensey
SEPTEMBER 24, 2024
Sharpen your problem-solving skills the McKinsey way, with our weekly crossword. Each puzzle is created with the McKinsey audience in mind, and includes a subtle (and sometimes not-so-subtle) business theme for you to find. Answers that are directionally correct may not cut it if you’re looking for a quick win.
Vantage Circle
SEPTEMBER 24, 2024
Has it ever occurred to you how engaged your employees truly are? Are they all engaged on the same level, or do their levels vary? Given the utmost significance of employee engagement today, it is high time to ponder where your employees stand in engagement levels. Understanding the different levels of employee engagement is vital for organizations aiming to cultivate a positive work culture and boost productivity.
McKensey
SEPTEMBER 24, 2024
Across disease types, patients with disabilities experience inequities all along the care pathway—with consequently worse outcomes. Inclusive pathway designs and targeted interventions could help.
Success
SEPTEMBER 24, 2024
After two years of scrambling to attract talent, companies are suddenly focused on cutting staff. More than half of U.S. business leaders (60%) said their company is likely to have layoffs in the second half of this year, according to a survey from ResumeTemplates.com. Several companies , including Cisco, Intel, IBM and Goldman Sachs , have announced plans to cut staff.
McKensey
SEPTEMBER 24, 2024
A new private credit ecosystem is emerging across asset managers, banks, and insurers. Here’s what it means for the industry.
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All Work
SEPTEMBER 24, 2024
A Journey Through Workplace Design: Insights with Janet Pogue McLaurin Setting the Stage: An Architect’s 42-Year Legacy We kick off with a warm welcome to Janet Pogue McLaurin , who has dedicated over four decades to Gensler , contributing her vast expertise to workplace research and design. Janet’s experiences range from working with the largest global corporations to managing offices across continents.
Work Life
SEPTEMBER 24, 2024
Countless parents across the country recently dropped their kids off at college for the first time. This transition can stir a whirlwind of feelings: the heartache of parting, sadness over a permanently changed family dynamic, the uncertainty of what lies ahead—but also the pride of seeing your child move toward independence. Some might describe the goodbye as bittersweet, or say that they’re feeling mixed emotions.
Office Snapshots
SEPTEMBER 24, 2024
Arctos, a private investment firm with established offices in New York and Dallas, wanted to move into their first London space and required a fit out that made a splash. The aim was to appeal to potential London partners by creating a statement, client-facing area that included a reception, tea point and meeting room. Beyond that, Arctos required an open plan office space for their people, with additional meeting and teapoint facilities.
McKensey
SEPTEMBER 24, 2024
Among many educated women, hard-won workplace gains appear to be waning. Why—and what does this mean for organizational performance?
Office Snapshots
SEPTEMBER 24, 2024
Weaver Architects and Ekorn Studio reimagined 32,000 sf into a timeless sense of place for Magnusson Klemencic Associates (MKA), a Pacific Northwest structural engineering icon with a global presence. Designed with the firm’s vision, identity, and culture in mind, the result offers a host of flexible and dynamic spaces that energize and engage the professional talent for whom the space is meant to cater.
CoreHealth Workplace Wellness
SEPTEMBER 24, 2024
Labor rights laws vary globally and affect employee well-being differently. They aim to establish baseline standards for employee treatment, focusing on work hours, occupational safety, and fair wages. While labor rights laws aim to protect the employee, they provide a minimum standard, often leaving the employee to fill in the gaps for their needs.
Work Life
SEPTEMBER 24, 2024
A year and a half ago, in the wake of ChatGPT’s enormously popular release , instructors at every educational level rushed to understand how the coming onslaught of artificial intelligence might transform their field, even disrupt it. “Folks in higher education were absolutely scrambling,” says Andrew Maynard, professor in the School for the Future of Innovation in Society at Arizona State University, in Phoenix (No. 40 on Ignition Schools ‘24). “It was almost like organized pa
McKensey
SEPTEMBER 24, 2024
Whether they are monitoring threats or involved in active operations, a country’s defense forces must remain connected and unified, which can be achieved through multidomain technology.
Work Life
SEPTEMBER 24, 2024
Welcome to the first-ever edition of Ignition Schools, a collaboration between Fast Company and our sibling publication, Inc. The Ignition Schools list honors the top academic institutions that play an enormous role in shaping the businesses that influence society. Innovation and entrepreneurship—the editorial lodestars for Fast Company and Inc., respectively—are also the focus of Ignition Schools.
fm:systems
SEPTEMBER 24, 2024
Optimize office space management with FM:Systems. Discover best practices in our comprehensive guide for facility managers.
Work Life
SEPTEMBER 24, 2024
If you work for a family business, you’re not alone. Nearly 60% of employees around the world work at family-owned businesses. Such enterprises, McKinsey & Company note, thrive because they are “adaptable and resilient.” One set of employees faces a specific set of opportunities and challenges. These are the children of the owner. While there are, of course, undeniable privileges that can come with working for a family member, there are also certain difficulties; and children will confront b
fm:systems
SEPTEMBER 24, 2024
This session explores the best practices and methodologies for monitoring, measuring, and reporting environmental data.
Work Life
SEPTEMBER 24, 2024
As a popular talk show host, Sherri Shepherd’s job is to get celebrities to share their personal stories. But the most fascinating tale might be her own. The host of Sherri, which kicked off its new season on Monday, has come a long way from her hardscrabble early days of getting evicted from her apartment as she tried to make it in show business.
fm:systems
SEPTEMBER 24, 2024
G2 IWMS Grid High Performer Fall 2024
Work Life
SEPTEMBER 24, 2024
The journey of any invention from inspirational spark to marketable product is complicated under the best of circumstances—even more so when the inventor hails from a university campus. To bring their best ideas out of a lab and into the hands of the public, such founder-researchers must learn a set of skills they might struggle to pick up in the hallowed halls of academia: the art of securing capital.
Success
SEPTEMBER 24, 2024
Finding a job has become increasingly difficult. Unemployment rates rose to 4.1% in June , and Americans are staying unemployed for longer. With all the factors involved, job hunting can often feel like a full-time job in itself. But one look at all the job openings on recruiting platforms and LinkedIn suggests a different story. Why? Ghost jobs. “Ghost jobs, which are open positions that companies list but have no intention of filling, create a false sense of opportunity,” says Stephanie Alston
Work Life
SEPTEMBER 24, 2024
Attracting early-stage investment is never simple, but aspiring founders in Silicon Valley and New York and Singapore take for granted that even if individual deals can be hard to secure, there sure is a lot of money flowing. For those living beyond the easy reach of a high-tech hotbed and prefer it that way, opportunities can be much harder to come by.
Yarooms
SEPTEMBER 24, 2024
The workplace experience (WX) is a key factor in driving business success, and companies that excel in optimizing their work environments understand that workplace experience teams are essential to creating spaces that foster employee satisfaction, productivity, and alignment with business goals.
Work Life
SEPTEMBER 24, 2024
Many future founders arrive on campus the first time just like the rest of us, unsure of which major they’ll declare, let alone whether their startup idea could be a billion-dollar business. The commitment to building a company—the confidence that takes—appears only once they’re immersed in college life. On this count, schools deploying an interdisciplinary approach to innovation have an advantage: they cultivate fertile ground for budding entrepreneurs to grow their ideas.
Success
SEPTEMBER 24, 2024
Expectations were high before Apple unveiled the latest iterations of its smartphone lineup. But now that the iPhone 16 series is finally here, preorders got off to a rather slow start, sparking discussions on what could have gone wrong for the Cupertino giant’s premium devices. On Sept. 9, Apple formally introduced a slew of new devices or, technically speaking, yearly updates to its existing products.
Work Life
SEPTEMBER 24, 2024
Struggling Jeep and Ram maker Stellantis is looking for a CEO to succeed Carlos Tavares , but the company says it’s just part of a normal leadership succession plan. Tavares has been under fire from U.S. dealers and the United Auto Workers union after a dismal first-half financial performance when the company was caught off guard with too much high-priced inventory on dealer lots.
Workplace Insight
SEPTEMBER 24, 2024
With all the talk about generative AI, the impact it will have on people, businesses and industries, I started to think what will be the impact on change management and particularly the role of a change professional? And I realised that change management , like potentially most professional roles, is actually split into two halves with one being science and the other being art.
Work Life
SEPTEMBER 24, 2024
As an executive recruiter with over 20 years of experience, I have interviewed at least 10,000 candidates. A big part of my success as a recruiter is being highly skilled at interviewing and teaching my clients how to interview excellently. A lot of time, effort, and money goes into a recruitment process, so it would be a terrible shame if great candidates don’t take your role because their interview gets mishandled.
Mad in America
SEPTEMBER 24, 2024
I have known since August 1963 that I am a schizophrenic. It was then that, at the age of seventeen, I had my first schizophrenic hallucination. It was a Beatific Vision. From April 1965 until May 1966, I was hospitalized at McLean Hospital, given large doses of Thorazine and Stelazine, and told by so many psychiatrists in so many ways that I was a hopeless, incurable case and the sooner I realized that I could never lead a happy, productive life, the better it would be for me.
Work Life
SEPTEMBER 24, 2024
Half a century since the passage of Title IX, generations of girls who played sports have grown up and climbed the corporate ladder. Title IX, which was enacted as part of the Education Amendments of 1972, prohibits sex-based discrimination in schools and subsequently requires that institutions provide equal athletic opportunities for both men and women.
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