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Boomerang Employees Could Be The Key To Attracting Qualified Candidates In A Hot Job Market
In the war for talent, companies need to consider any and all options to fill the empty seats. Businesses have offered free college tuition, higher wages, sign-on bonuses, remote and hybrid work options, better benefits and other goodies. A smart strategy is to comb through past employees who left on good terms to see if they’d like to come back.
Could Covid’s Omicron Variant Impact Your Workplace? Here’s What To Know
The world is on high alert with the latest developments of the Covid-19 omicron variant, which the World Health Organization said Monday poses a “very high” global risk. On Wednesday, U.S. health officials confirmed the country’s first case of the variant in California. U.S. business leaders, meanwhile, are scrambling to figure out how the omicron variant could impact their workplaces, and what health and safety measures they can use to get ahead of it, says Dr. Neal Mills, chief medical officer for professional services firm Aon.
Jobless Claims Less Than Expected As Labor Market Returns To Pre-Pandemic Self
Initial claims for unemployment insurance rose last week but held at levels consistent with how the job market looked before the Covid-19 pandemic devastated the U.S. employment picture, the Labor Department reported Thursday. First-time filings for the week ended Nov. 27 totaled 222,000, less than the 240,000 Wall Street expected. That was higher than the 194,000 from the previous week, but that total, the lowest since 1969, was revised even further down from the initial 199,000 reported.
CEOs And Insiders Sell A Record $69 Billion Of Their Stock, And The Year Isn’t Over Yet
CEOs and corporate insiders have sold a record $69 billion in stock in 2021, as looming tax hikes and lofty share prices encourage many to take profits. From Satya Nadella at Microsoft to Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk, CEOs, founders and insiders have been cashing in their stock at the highest pace on record. As of Monday, sales by insiders are up 30% from 2020 to $69 billion, and up 79% versus a 10-year average, according to InsiderScore/Verity, which excludes sales by large institutional holders.
Stripe Is On A Hiring Spree—But It’s Also Rescinding Job Offers And Angering Engineers
The prevailing narrative about tech workers assumes that they have more power than ever before. This even has a term—the Great Resignation. But at the booming, much-revered payments company Stripe, some applicants have found themselves accepting job offers only to learn they have been rescinded without warning.
6 Phrases All Good Negotiators Use to Get What They Want
Unless it’s your job, few people love the prospect of negotiating. It’s filled with anxiety about getting taken and being laughed at, and even if you’re decent at it, there’s the confrontation aspect and the unavoidable pressure of what you’re trying to do. “Negotiations are about how to share things that are scarce,” says Richard Shell, professor of legal studies and ethics at the Wharton School of Business and author of Bargaining for Advantage.
Remote Work Has A Downside
I once had a seventy-five-minute one-way commute to work. It was a truly exhausting journey tacked on to the beginning and end of my typical twelve-hour days in the office. I quickly came to dread having to be on the road by 5:30 every morning, and only agreed to do so because it was a condition for receiving a major promotion.
Happy At Work Podcast: A Conversation with Otmar Szafnauer, Principal of Aston Martin F1 Team
In this Happy at Work podcast with Otmar Szafnauer, we explore his journey from working at Ford Motor Company to Chief Executive Officer of the Aston Martin F1 Team and his formula for building great teams.
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