The fight against quiet quitting has continued for years, but rates of employee engagement remain stubbornly low.
In 2023, Gallup found that a mere 33% of workers were “engaged in their work and workplace.” That might sound dire, but the peak…
Welcome to Pressing Questions, Fast Company’s work-life advice column. Every week, deputy editor Kathleen Davis, host of The New Way We Work podcast, will answer the biggest and most pressing workplace questions.
Q: How do I ask…
Management professor and author Ellen Van Oosten takes questions from listeners who are struggling to move into management and offers advice on how to make the transition.
For decades, we’ve equated leadership with controlling our teams, our employees, and the direction of our companies. But in an increasingly complex and unpredictable world, clinging to control is the quickest path to failure. In fact, the most importa…
A C-suite executive in a financial firm is contemplating a move. Yet despite her high-stress job, she hesitates to leave because she fears losing her social connections and sense of identity.
She acknowledges that she’s been a wildly successful hig…
Last week, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy announced a sweeping change in company policy: Come January 2, 2025, almost all employees will be expected to work in an Amazon office in person, five days a week.
The policy change, which Jassy says is intended to…
According to Violation Tracker, the top 100 regulatory fines, criminal penalties, and class-action settlements for U.S. corporate wrongdoing since 2020 amount to an astounding $221.9 billion. How much money is that? Let’s put it this way: the National…
If you work in tech, it’s been a weird couple of years.
In the summer of 2022, the fundraising apocalypse hit startups. By late fall, the waves of layoffs in big tech began, transforming LinkedIn from a place where people extol B2B sales lessons th…
Recent data from Crunchbase shows that there have been more than 57,000 layoffs in the tech sector alone in 2024. In Edelman’s 2023 Trust Barometer, a staggering 89% of people reported a fear of job loss. During the layoff process, trust may inevitabl…
As the board’s role becomes ever more complicated, stronger partnership with management, especially the CEO, can help directors create the most value for their organizations.
