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I never liked the idea of throwing out babies but at least I get the point of the saying, “Don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater.” A few companies that have been historically great places to work might want to take a fresh lesson from it,
As January closes, the tech sector is in full-on hunker-down mode, with layoffs (see more below) that unwind recent headcount growth and torpedo long-shot projects. Dark clouds aside, there are two big reasons for Work Tech optimism, but one si
In recent weeks, all of the big names in technology announced significant layoffs. What happened at Microsoft over the past week is endemic to a larger problem here, but I’ll spend a little time picking on them. Why? Because, honestly, I expect
The Generative AI Frenzy of 2023 is woven with so many fascinating threads for the implications for the future of all work but especially for marketing — designing better and faster, writing copy, developing PowerPoints, and even doing intern w
It’s been almost a month since Southwest Airlines had one of the biggest meltdowns in aviation history. A combination of bad weather in the wrong places coupled with ancient crew-scheduling technology sent the company into a metaphorical nosedi
The tech industry is still roiling as the fallout from the past five years of irrational exuberance continues to unwind. However, the future of Work Tech continues to come into focus.
January gloom is definitely a thing here in the Pacific Northwest this time of year. With major holidays out of the way, and with about seven hours of actual daylight (if you can call it that), we’re all just powering through until spring. What
Just to close the book on 2022, it was a bruising year for startups. Layoffs were of 2001 proportions. Many expect 2023 to be another challenging year. After an investment downturn in 2022, VCs are sitting on mountains of capital to deploy, and
Happy new year! Hopefully, you were able to spend some time away from your e-mail inbox over the last few weeks and enjoy some non-newsletter time. We’re covering what’s keeping HR up at night, employment trends for 2023, and getting stuck in a
Revisiting Work Tech predictions from a year ago, the thing that stands out most is that people’s expectations were all over the place. For example, some correctly anticipated that hybrid and remote work would continue going strong in 2022, but
Let's jump into this week's Work Tech Weekly newsletter from Steve Smith. As we near the end of 2022, it’s hard to ignore the challenges facing the tech industry. This year has been one of the most difficult for the sector since 2001, and it’s
Let's jump into this week’s Work Leader Weekly newsletter from Lance Haun: About this time of year, we can’t help but look ahead and try to figure out what’s going to happen over the next 12 or so months. The last time I did this, in 2019, I di
Let's jump into this week's Work Leader Weekly newsletter from Lance Haun. Bad press for remote work won’t end. The “office apocalypse” is upon us. I’m not being dramatic. That’s the title of a story about low office occupancy that will likely
Let’s jump into this week’s Work Leader Weekly newsletter from Lance Haun: We all keep hearing about layoffs, and that probably won’t change until at least the end of this calendar year. While concentrated mostly in the technology sector, other
For tech companies, the hits kept coming. Twitter is in turmoil. Crypto is crashing. There were multiple layoff announcements, including Meta and Salesforce. Tiger Global — an investment firm that has pumped big money into Work Tech over the pa
Lance is back with another Work Leader Weekly newsletter: We can do better than Musk’s Twitter disaster. It’s been a meme-worthy three weeks since Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover took place. From his proclamation that comedy is now legal, to his p
Yesterday, Lance was finishing out a great ERE Recruiting Conference in Atlanta. What did he learn from the leaders in the room during a tumultuous week for politics and economics? Here’s the latest Work Leader Weekly newsletter.
The 2020s have already been a difficult decade by any measure, as we have already confronted disease, war, and civil unrest. Now we face yet another challenge to peace, prosperity, and tranquility. I’m talking, of course, about that dreaded men
In this week’s newsletter, Lance Haun wanted to start with the always-interesting world of economics and employee productivity before we covered the new chief remote officer role, HR’s 2023 priorities, and myths about Halloween candy.
In 1930, economist John Maynard Keynes predicted that in a hundred years we would work only 15 hours a week to satisfy our basic economic needs. Ninety years later, Americans work on average over 34 hours a week. How was he more than 100% wrong
It was a big week for Work Tech earnings, and … it could have been worse. Microsoft’s net income was down but Asure’s earnings were a relative bright spot. SAP profit was also down but cloud earnings were also a bright spot and its CEO sounded
In this week’s newsletter, we cover how folks with disabilities are benefiting from remote work, which became the norm during the pandemic (and how much further we have to go). We also get updates on the cities that offered incentives for remot
We are putting the finishing touches on an industry survey we conducted this month and last, with responses from over 700 Work Tech professionals about how their brands have fared in 2022 and what they expect in 2023. Some of the results were s
Lance is back with a new Work Leader Weekly newsletter: This week in work leader news, the U.S. Department of Labor is proposing new rules for gig workers, half of employees are dealing with burnout, and someone asks the question: Can candle re
As we’ve spent the last few years trying to understand what an equitable and fair workplace looks like, you would think we would have made at least some progress. Nearly 90% of Fortune 100 companies list equity as a corporate value. Mentions of
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