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Work Futures Weekly 2020–01–13
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2020–01–13 Beacon NY | I still feel like it’s December.
Quote of the Week
Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.
| Fyodor Dostoevsky
Stories
Seven key HR trends for 2020 | Cathryn Newbery offers some good ideas after talking to some smart people:
Employee experience should be about creating a culture where everyone can truly influence things — that people aren’t overlooked, or it’s just the usual suspects who are rewarded or involved in decisions. For me, it’s like a supercharged version of engagement — it’s almost like a higher-level, more obvious inclusion method, with employers putting people in the spaces where they’ll have the biggest impact. It’s like an overlay and uplift of [employee] engagement, rather than a reboot of it. — Perry Timms
[Rita] Trehan says organisations need to ask their people more profound questions than those usually found in employee engagement surveys. “We’re not going to shift the dial on culture if we survey people and ask things like ‘do you like your boss?’…
