The coronavirus pandemic radically disrupted the recruiting world in 2020. Several of these changes will stick, including companies’ growing use of technology in the vetting process.
Those companies that successfully recruit millennial and Gen Z…
In 2014, tech heavyweights finally caved to pressure and started releasing data on their workforces, confirming what many people in the industry already knew to be true: Companies such as Google and Facebook were overwhelmingly white and male. The tech…
In less than 12 months, the United States lost 32 years of progress toward gender equity in the labor markets.
It’s no secret that the exorbitant 153% increase in women’s unpaid labor during the pandemic has contributed to this setback. T…
The year 2020 brought a global reckoning on race unlike anything we’ve witnessed in modern history. Diversity trainings followed the missteps of organizations and CEOs. Corporate social responsibility programs pledged their allegiance to the Bla…
It’s your first day at a new job. You open the Employee Handbook sent to you by HR, expecting the usual dull legalese document you’ll half-heartedly scan until you get to the bit about vacation days. Except this one has a surprising amoun…
In the 1970s, entrepreneur Elizabeth Carmichael set her sights on disrupting the auto industry with the Dale, a three-wheeled car that promised to get 70 miles to the gallon.
Given the fact the country was gripped by a fuel crisis at the time and that …
If you’ve decided to read more, you’re not alone. According to Statista in 2018, 23% of respondents resolved to read more in the new year. Yet reading surged in the early days of the pandemic, with 41% of respondents reporting reading mor…
FP Dealmakers: Scotiabank’s Fanny Doucet talks about ESG bond issuances for 2021
As a white male, my journey to where I sit today has been very different than a person of color or anyone in a minority or marginalized group.
I’m aware of that, and I have always strived to be empathetic and compassionate. But 2020 gave me a fr…
The coronavirus has dispersed company workforces, sending previously in-person teams to work remotely. Leaders can no longer manage by wandering around or relying on happenstance run-ins, so many have shifted their management styles to scale new coordi…
