Workplace

Headlines detailing “The Great Resignation,” or what I like to call “The Great Reshuffling,” proliferates our feeds and inboxes daily. September 2021 saw 4.4 million workers leave their positions and establish the highest one-month turnover rate in history. The easy explanation is that the COVID-19 pandemic irrevocably changed the workforce…

Promotion is a company’s recognition of an employee’s capacity to take more and be given more than what they already have on their plate. And it often comes with three things, better pay, better title and greater responsibilities. If you can do the things listed in this article, you already…

“Millennials, eh?!” It was just a simple, yet indelible comment by a colleague. She was referring to an interaction with another colleague earlier that day. The nature of the incident I can’t recall — it was not important — but what struck me was how easily the incident was explained…

Following the rules all the time and never skipping the line won’t help you to work and live more creatively. As a German — don’t get me wrong — I love rules, processes, and being organized, but I also love to break and ignore these altogether, because sometimes it’s the…

Is Your Workplace A Great Place To Work? With studies finding that one in every five workers is set to resign in the next twelve months, the great resignation looks set to continue for the foreseeable future. Given the energy, disruption, and cost that most resignations require of both the…

Some people love remote or hybrid work, others not so much. But everybody probably agrees that it has its challenges. By Marta Koonz After the pandemic reshaped the workplace, remote work is here to stay, even with the world slowly going back to normal. One in three people is currently…

Codeswitching has exploded in mainstream news and dialogue. From movie and TV depictions to our favorite GIF of former President Barack Obama shaking hands, codeswitching is one of many tools that people of color use to successfully navigate Western and White dominant societies. We define codeswitching as the adjustment of…

“At CorpSchmorp we are one big family,” is only one of the many red flags in job descriptions. If you don’t work at a family business, your boss and your coworkers are not your family. Sometimes they’re not even your friends, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing. It sounds kind…