The term “Great Resignation” first dominated headlines in 2021, capturing the wave of employees leaving their jobs in search of better opportunities, flexibility, and fulfillment. Fast forward to 2025, and the phenomenon has returned with renewed force. As economic uncertainty lingers and workplace dissatisfaction grows, businesses find themselves grappling with yet another exodus of talent. […]
Category: Employee Engagement
Generation Z: Redefining Success in the Modern Workplace
For decades, the image of success was neatly packaged: climb the corporate ladder, snag the corner office, and retire with a gold watch. But Gen Z, born between the late 1990s and early 2010s, has ushered in a seismic shift in how careers—and success itself—are perceived. Forget rigid hierarchies and traditional trajectories; for Gen Z, […]
What the Employment Cost Index Tells Us About the Economic Road Ahead
The Employment Cost Index (ECI), released quarterly by the U.S. Labor Department, provides a key insight into the cost of keeping an employee on board, encompassing wages, salaries, and benefits such as health insurance, paid time off, retirement benefits, and other perks that make up the total compensation package. The latest report for Q3 shows […]
The Top Three Things You Shouldn’t Talk About At The Holiday Party
Ahhh, the Holiday Party. That time honored ritual where large groups of employees get together, often under the influence of alcohol, and party like it’s 1999. Some companies throw amazing, unforgettable Holiday Parties. Others through parties reminiscent of Russian Gulags—not you, of course. Your parties are awesome but you hear horror stories, right? The thing […]
Career Wellbeing: Why Loving Your Job Leads to a Better Life
Career wellbeing is the foundation of a fulfilling life. Think about the most successful people you know. If you ask them about their success and inquire as to the specifics of what they do from one day to the next, a striking commonality is bound to appear. The most successful people love what they do […]
Three Reasons You Should Give Employees Gifts this Holiday Season
Giving gifts to your employees isn’t just a nice gesture; it’s a powerful tool that can significantly improve your workplace environment and culture. If you limit gift giving to the holidays only, you’re almost certainly missing a golden opportunity to strengthen your team all year long. Here are three reasons why regular employee gift giving […]
What is Resenteeism?
Resenteeism is a recent addition to the lexicon of the modern workplace. It’s a word used to describe an employee who remains at his post, staying at a job he doesn’t like, even though he’s deeply dissatisfied with continuing to work there. This is essentially the flip side of the Great Resignation, where employees will […]
What is Rage Applying?
“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 […]
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 […]