The “Great Reshuffle” Continues Reality checks are never pleasant, but thousands of tech workers, some enviably the recipients of sky-high salaries, free lattes, and even massages, are among the nearly 100,000 caught up in mass layoffs so far in 2023. And it is not just the tech sector in downsizing mode. Intelligenz reports that as of February 21, over 451 …
Self-Reliant Gen Zers Take the Road Less Traveled
Gen Zers are constantly learning. But not necessarily by earning the traditional college degree. Through the pandemic years, college enrollments actually dropped 6.6%. That’s 1,025,600 students! Associate degrees fell by 6.2%. But that doesn’t mean Gen Zs aren’t motivated to learn. A recent study showed 56% of Gen Z teens prefer skills-based jobs in fields like STEM. As tech-savvy digital …
Can Hiring Gen Z Help Ease a Return to the Office?
In last month’s Partnership Employment blog, Relocating Offices? Mindful Choices to Support Employee Wellbeing, we focused on ways to get people, especially Baby Boomers and Millennials, excited about returning to the office. Relocating or remodeling with employees’ physical and mental health in mind were options designed to tempt the remote-insistent folks to rejoin their colleagues for a more human-centered experience. …
Re-working Today’s Must-Have Employee Benefit
It’s time to get everyone back to work. But for employees who are among the 34,000,000 who had COVID, returning might look like this: Complete recovery and happy to head back to the office, or worry and performance anxiety because after several weeks of debilitating illness, they are among the 10-30% who will suffer persistent symptoms such as fatigue, chest pain, shortness …
Why “Why?” is What Your People Really Want to Know
Companies across America are undergoing structural and strategic upheaval. From deciding whether it is wise to mandate vaccines or rolling out distributive workforce plans, business leaders have a lot of ‘splainin’ to do! And it’s hard. Today, many of our decisions hinge on changing variables, some we cannot predict, like viral spread, employees quitting, or the unavailability of computer equipment …
