“Rage applying” is a term that has only recently come to the fore (originally appearing on TikTok in December of 2022). It is a behavior that a deeply frustrated employee may engage in after something negative happens at work, resulting in the employee responding by firing off a number of internet job applications back-to-back. It […]
Category: Employee Engagement
What is Quiet Vacationing?
Among the new words and phrases that have entered the collective vocabulary of workers everywhere, you’re likely to find the term “Quiet Vacationing.” If you’re not sure what that is, here’s the scoop! You know how, in olden days when an employee wanted to take a vacation, they ran it by their manager, and if […]
What are Bare-Minimum Mondays?
Let’s face it, we’ve all been there. We’ve all had a weekend that went by far too quickly and then were faced with the looming dread of Monday morning, which led inexorably to sitting around for the first couple of hours of the workday, not really accomplishing much of anything. That, in a nutshell, is […]
What is Coffee Badging?
Coffee Badging is one of a slew of new work-related terms to hit the public’s consciousness since we put the pandemic behind us and some companies have begun mandating that their employees spend a certain amount of time at the office. Specifically, Coffee Badging describes showing up to the office because the boss says you […]
The Biggest Drag On Your Company’s Morale Right Now Is Probably…
Here’s something that almost nobody in management likes to talk about but the simple truth is, in your capacity as the owner of the firm or a member of its upper management team, there are probably things you are doing right now…today, that are having a negative impact on the morale of your employees. The […]
Leveraging Technology To Enhance Work Culture
Technology and workplace culture aren’t necessarily two things people naturally associate with each other, but on closer inspection, the two are closely linked with each other. Below, we’ll highlight several different ways you can leverage technology to improve and enhance your company’s workplace culture. Improved Communications Zoom, Microsoft Meeting, Skype, and other communications tools were […]
Integrating Core Values into Onboarding for Lasting Engagement
At some point in your career, you’ve probably worked at a place that really struggled to maintain its corporate culture. It may have felt that with each new hire, the company’s culture drifted farther from what it had once been until it was almost unrecognizable. If you now own your own company, you’re probably keenly […]
The Role of Employee Recognition in Remote Work Settings
It would be almost impossible to understate the impact that the Pandemic of 2020 had on the workplace, globally. While it’s certainly true that remote working was steadily gaining in popularity, the pandemic hurried things along. Almost overnight, tens of millions more people began working remotely and companies had to struggle to come up with […]
Gen Z Employees Are the Most Difficult to Manage, But…
Based on the title of this piece, you might expect this to be a fairly negative article, putting down the youngest generation of employees. It isn’t, but it will take a couple of paragraphs for that to become apparent. Bear with us! First, let’s start with the claim and yes, it’s hard to spin the […]
Coffee Badging – The new trend that Employers are Frowning upon
If you’re not familiar with the term we used in the title of this piece, let’s define that before we go any further. Coffee Badging is one of a slew of new work-related terms to hit the public’s consciousness since we put the pandemic behind us and some companies have begun mandating that their employees […]