TL;DR Workers may prefer a consistently unfair boss over an erratic one, according to a study from Michigan State University. The findings suggest that employees are less stressed and more satisfied with their job if their boss is consistently unfair rather than alternating between courteous and rude. The research showed…

Editor’s note: We [GapJumpers] help companies, who’ve tried & failed numerous times, correct unfair and biased hiring & performance management practices. Imagine the following: You work as a freelancer for a media company. And in your spare time, from your own personal SM account you comment on policies of your…

When thinking about workplace fairness, it can be helpful for managers to get that people demonstrate and perceive fairness, in a variety of ways. Research supports the idea that fairness takes a variety of forms; often described as: Distributive: Are the outcomes or results of the decision fair Procedural: Is…

One of the most effective things we can do for our health as we age (especially 55+) is increase body strength and cardio (as measured by Vo2Max). While diet, cutting bad habits [smoking/drinking], socialising, good sleep patterns all play positive roles, focussing on strength + cardio is as close a…

With burnout at all-time highs, employers are investing in employee mental health & well-being because employees who operate in human-centric work models — where they are seen as people, not just resources — are 3.8 times more likely to be high performing. GapJumpers aims to highlight biases, assumptions and blindspots…

NBC News' Cesar Conde Sets Goal for Staff to Be 50% Women, 50% People of Color NBCUniversal News Group Chairman Cesar Conde on Tuesday pledged to create a more diverse staff, setting a goal of 50%…www.thewrap.com “Simply put, we aspire to achieve two concrete goals: that 50% of our News organization employees be women and 50% of our total workforce be people of color.” Cesar Conde Imagine that NBC hires disproportionately more Asian And Hispanic Americans over other groups that are also designated People of Color…

Why managers must closely track this seemingly innocent metric — One of the metrics that Meeting.info tracks is attendance quality. How many people are late for meetings and how many leave early. In this blog post we want to dive deeper into this metric, because there’s more to unpack around unpunctuality, from the point of employee wellbeing, besides our annoyance…

Introducing our latest product re: remote work problems. — In the past weeks we’ve been listening to out network about the impact of woking remotely. An issue that kept coming up was that team managers and HR felt they had reduced visibility on how this Work from Home switch impacted employees. While many used survey tools to get some…

Admittedly a weird label for an issue most of us have experienced first hand. Every week, employees spend about six hours in meetings, while the average manager meets for a staggering 23 hours. The result is not only hundreds of billions of wasted dollars, but an exacerbation of what organisational…