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Stanford Graduate School of Business

Why "Copycat" Layoffs Won't Help Tech Companies — Or Their Employees

“Layoffs kill people,” says Jeffrey Pfeffer. And they don’t cut costs or improve productivity.

The New York Times

Yes, Your Job Is Important. But It's Not All-Important.

Here is how to think about the gulf between what you should do and what you can do.

CNBC

California forces companies to show pay on job listings, revealing big tech salaries

A new law that went into effect this week requires most California employers to disclose salaries on job listings. …

The New York Times

Wave of Job-Switching Has Employers on a Training Treadmill

The rise in turnover since the pandemic started has a cost in productivity: “It’s taking longer to get stuff out …

The Wall Street Journal

Laid Off Tech Workers Quickly Find New Jobs

Openings across the economy are down from highs but far exceed the number of unemployed Americans.

Vox

How workers fought back in 2022

Workers unionized, quit their jobs, and refused to go back to the office.

The Economist

The scourge of job-title inflation

Plenty of companies now employ a “director of first impressions”, a job whose responsibilities include greeting …

CNN

Global 4-day week pilot was a huge success, organizers say

The verdict is in: A four-day work week is good for business.

After six months, most of the 33 companies and 903 workers …

Bustle

Have We Been Thinking About Burnout All Wrong?

A term suggesting rock bottom stops meaning rock bottom when we’re all there and, somehow, still going.

Harvard Business Review

Tech Talent Is Flooding the Job Market

Unlike other economic downturns, when employers cut roles no longer critical to business operations, laid-off workers from …

The Guardian

A hundred UK companies sign up for four-day week with no loss of pay

Thousands of employees to be moved permanently to four days in policy described as ’transformative'.

NPR

These companies ran an experiment: Pay workers their full salary to work fewer days

Companies in the United Kingdom are about to complete the biggest trial of a four-day work week ever undertaken, anywhere in …

Okta

Is 40 hours a week too much? Here's what history and science say

Most professionals work Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. But why is that? Who decided we should work 40 hours a …

The Guardian

Revealed: working class people paid thousands less than middle class peers despite doing same jobs

Firms should be ’legally required’ to publish their class pay gaps, says thinktank, after it found salary …

The Washington Post

U.S. workers have gotten way less productive. No one is sure why.

Bosses and economists are troubled by the worst drop in U.S. worker output since 1947.

HR Drive

Employers should prioritize retention over hiring, study suggests

Employers contending with an unprecedented talent market and looming recession have begun “labor hoarding,” some …

SHRM

Most People—92%—Never Finish Online Job Applications

Experts recommend recruiters apply for their own company’s jobs, improve application process.

Jim Nielsen's Blog

What "Work" Looks Like

I think Business with a capital B loves “collaboration” because of the seeming evidence of the feat: the …

BBC

The bosses who silently nudge out workers

Employers are often reluctant to fire employees for myriad reasons. But quietly side-lining them in the hope that …

Reuters

More U.S. companies charging employees for job training if they quit

The use of training agreements is growing even though unemployment is low, which presumably gives workers more power, said …

ComputerWeekly

Tech salaries continue to increase as firms search for talent

Firms are increasingly looking for tech candidates, but are employers set to gain more hiring power over the next year?

WIRED

The Unlikely Cure for Burnout? A Second Job

“Overemployment” sounds like more of the same old grind, but its underlying philosophy is critical of work.

The New York Times

4-Day Workweek Brings No Loss of Productivity, Companies in Experiment Say

More than 70 companies in Britain are undergoing a six-month experiment in which their employees get a paid day off each …

Ads of the World

The search for the most useless office perk in the world

A mailroom punching bag. Tuna cans with no can opener. A folded-up exercise machine. New marketing campaign seeks “the …

The Atlantic

Quiet Quitting Is a Fake Trend

What people are now calling “quiet quitting” was, in previous decades, simply known as “having a …

The Workplace

How should we handle an over-productive employee?

A hyper-productive, stellar employee doesn’t have enough tasks to do and is getting worried that this might mean he is …

Harvard Business Review

Quiet Quitting Is About Bad Bosses, Not Bad Employees

Every employee, every workday, makes a decision: Are they only willing to do the minimum work necessary to keep their job? Or …

The Wall Street Journal

Companies Are Cutting Back on Maternity and Paternity Leave

Many employers dial down how much paid time off they give new moms and dads.

The Wall Street Journal

Americans Are Breaking Up With Their Work Friends

Millions of workers have switched jobs or gone remote—a big reason many employees say work friendships are harder to forge …