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Workplace jargon reflects changing power dynamics

by Stacey Vanek Smith
Jul 23, 2024
During the pandemic era, the lingo reflected workers' leverage. Now the dynamic has shifted, and how we talk about work has too.
Employers have regained much of the leverage that workers enjoyed when job openings were plentiful and applicants were scarce.
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In U.K. 4-day work week trial, companies see happier employees — and higher productivity

by Stephen Beard
Dec 19, 2022
70 U.K. companies have just completed a 6-month experiment with a shorter week with full pay – and early results are promising.
While some companies that partook in the U.K.'s 4-day work week experiment saw benefits, labor experts are skeptical that it could be replicated at all businesses. Above, London commuters in December 2021.
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American workers are bummed out

by Mitchell Hartman
Nov 15, 2022
A new survey by UKG's Workforce Institute finds half of American workers wouldn't recommend their job or their employer to their own kid. The same percentage would like to stop working if they could.
Some 45% of American workers "don’t want to work anymore, period," said Chris Mullen of the UKG Workforce Institute.
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Raising the curtain on "productivity theater"

by Kai Ryssdal
Oct 4, 2022
Employees don't want be labeled "quiet quitters," so they're working to appear busy. Rani Molla of Vox explains the practice.
Nearly 90% of managers don't trust that their hybrid employees are productive, according to a Microsoft survey.
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Work is a big part of what's making us unhappy, Gallup CEO says

by Kai Ryssdal and Sean McHenry
Sep 27, 2022
Jon Clifton weighs in on workplace engagement, global unhappiness and why it's sometimes a good thing when polls confirm conventional wisdom.
"We spend so much of our lives at work," says Gallup CEO Jon Clifton. "There's one analysis that says it's 115,000 hours — which is 13 years of a person's life."
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Why quiet quitting has become a loud trend

by Sabri Ben-Achour and Ariana Rosas
Sep 9, 2022
The debate around quiet quitting has gotten people speaking up about burnout and workplace fatigue driven by the pandemic.
"Quiet quitting" is the latest pandemic-driven workplace debate that points to burnout as a cause of decreased engagement and productivity.
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Unengaged workers are fired up about "quiet quitting"

by Kai Ryssdal , Anais Amin and Sean McHenry
Aug 22, 2022
Young workers' sense of "wanting to untether my job from my identity" has grown in the past year, The Journal's Lindsay Ellis reports.
During the pandemic, with stress and mental health problems widespread, more employees have become less committed to their jobs.
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