In 2022, the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic gave rise the Great Resignation. This trend saw employees around the world leaving their places of work in droves. As a result, employee turnover surged to unprecedented levels.
While resignation rate…
Companies are struggling with the rise of AI, high levels of employee burnout, and managing hybrid teams. Now, there’s a new challenge: no one wants to be a leader.
According to DDI’s 2025 HR Insights report, based on a survey of …
Understanding how your body works can be the key to reducing stress. For example, you’re probably aware of your fight-or-flight response—the body’s way of preparing itself when it believes it’s being threatened. What happens is your sympathetic nervou…
While remote work offers several benefits such as flexibility, working from home can also be lonely. In one survey almost a quarter (23%) of remote workers reported feeling lonely. Loneliness at work can result in decreased productivity, and feelings …
James wanted to reach the senior VP or CTO level, but feedback was clear: He was viewed as a working manager, not a leader of leaders. His identity as the expert got him only so far. Now it was the very thing limiting his advancement.
James was a r…
If we took everything at face value, today’s media headlines, studies, and overall assumptions about the next generation currently entering the workforce could be considered true. Unreliable. Entitled. Difficult to work with. Zero work ethic. Screen-o…
A recent survey by online résumé builder ResumeHelp found that 60% of millennials and 58% of Gen Z employees say they “sometimes” or “frequently” talk about politics at work. In contrast, only 41% of Gen X and 40% of boomers do the same. In short, the…
One of medicine’s harder lessons about burnout and mental health might be the most urgently needed by every industry right now.
As an emergency physician who also did four years of surgical residency training, I witnessed firsthand how the gr…
Rumor has it that gossip can be a positive force in workplace cultures, under the right circumstances.
While talking smack behind a colleague’s back likely won’t produce any personal or organizational benefits, research suggests sharing neutral or …
James Kimmel, Jr., is a lecturer of psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine, a lawyer, and the founder and co-director of the Yale Collaborative for Motive Control Studies. He is the creator of The Nonjustice System, the Mircale Court app, and Savin…
