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Productivity / Performance

Help managers build trust: 6 best practices

01/11/2022
Good relationships between managers and their subordinates start with trust. Pass along these tips to help managers strengthen the bonds of trust with their staff members.

Help managers succeed in hybrid environments

12/14/2021
Organizations can help managers lead employees in a hybrid work environment by building resilience, developing managerial soft skills and measuring performance based on the impact of the work, not the effort or hours expended.

End-of-year reviews, 2021-style

11/24/2021
Annual performance chats should probably look a little different this year.

41% of managers let workers set their own hours

11/23/2021
Companies are embracing new ways of working, but are they ready to ditch the traditional eight-hour workday?

Does an employee’s passion for a job = success in that job?

11/22/2021
Your most passionate employees may not necessarily be your top performers.

Remote work: Solving ‘the Great Disconnect’

11/22/2021
A study of 61,000 Microsoft workers who were sent home to work during the pandemic found that those employees spent 25% less time collaborating with co-workers.

Snapshot: Remote work declined steadily throughout 2021

11/16/2021
The percentage of employees who work remotely at least some of the time has fallen by half since January.

5 tips to get the most out of employees’ annual evaluations

10/28/2021
How do you handle a performance review that involves some news employees won’t necessarily welcome?

Millennial bosses have highest rates of burnout

10/05/2021
Millennial managers, ages 26-40, are significantly more likely to say they are burned out than managers of any other generation, according to new research by MetLife.

EEOC test case argues for even more telework

09/30/2021
Last year, the EEOC endorsed remote work as an effective accommodation for disabled employees with pre-existing health conditions that made them more susceptible to infection. Now the EEOC has launched a lawsuit testing the argument that telework should be an accommodation even for workers who aren’t technically disabled but are at higher risk of covid-related complications.