HR-Tracks is a website dedicated to 40 plus years of research on substance abuse -- plus other key HR issues: mental health in the workplace, effective resumes and more.
Key Takeaways Employees at Progressive and Chipotle Mexican Grill complain the most about burnout. Workers in the restaurants and food service industry complain about burnout most. Paychex, Amazon, and Coinbase employees experience burnout most of the time among workers in the information technology industry. Employees at Live Nation Entertainment experience the most burnout among workers in the media and communication industry.
AI represents a double-edged sword—offering unprecedented innovations but also posing risks to delicate human values. As businesses navigate this landscape, it is imperative to remain vigilant and proactive in addressing the potential pitfalls of AI. More importantly, we need human-oriented technology leaders involved in our businesses. By striking a balance, businesses can harness the full potential of AI while safeguarding against its unintended consequences. Your business is too important to outsource its values.
Excessive meetings are more than an annoyance, an Atlassian study of 5,000 workers across four continents found: They’re a bigger drain on productivity than lack of motivation, unclear goals or responsibilities, unclear collaboration expectations and other roadblocks.
James Schreier's insight:
This one really angers me -- because there are proven solutions available!
When a manager struggles to give tough feedback or a star quits, HR becomes the scapegoat. But if managers have the skills to tackle these issues, HR isn't blamed.
we need to question the validity of “busy” as a badge of honor. The relentless pursuit of busyness often leads to confusion between mere activity and genuine productivity. Legendary UCLA basketball coach John Wooden once cautioned, “Never mistake activity for achievement,” highlighting a common pitfall in our current culture.
When hiring managers sit down to decide which candidate gets a job offer, the decision is not likely going to be made based on any one candidate's skills and experience. While your skills and expertise matter, companies hire for three things: personality, aptitude, and experience (in that order).
Although the positive drug test rate dropped slightly for safety-sensitive roles, workers in these roles also had a marked increase in cheating attempts, Quest Diagnostics found.
AI has come to the rescue for both employers seeking employee and workers seeking employment, automating many laborious tasks. But for employers and those seeking employment alike, there are risks to handing off your job or talent search to a digital assistant.
If the years of experience requirement is lifted, then capable, curious, smart and motivated people with transferable skills will no longer be overlooked just because of an arbitrary metric.
From grandma to grandkid, the Beatles to Beyonce, leisure suits to athleisure wear, and highballs to seltzers, there are differences in the workplace. And it's likely you have the generations to prove it -- employees from 78 down to 18.
The monthly jobs report out Friday will probably look great, if recent months are any indication. Yet plenty of workers have rarely, if ever, felt more stuck.
I hear from a lot of white-collar workers on the job hunt who say it’s much harder to get hired than the unemployment numbers make it sound. They complain about hiring managers who ghost them and draw out the interview process. They say job listings linger on companies’ career pages and never get filled. Or get reposted repeatedly.
Dear Madeleine, I manage a team of mostly young people, all of whom manage internal communications for a global manufacturing company. A few years ago the company went to an unlimited paid time off policy. I have read a lot about the effects of unlimited PTO, and note that the biggest risk is that people…
AI can’t easily quantify these qualities, and algorithms can overlook them, as they prioritize measurable metrics over intangibles. The quality of one’s work is something AI struggles with heavily. Have you used AI to generate imagery from scratch? If you have, you’ll understand why quality matters so much. AI misses the mark when it comes to understanding context, fine details and intangibles. Consider the role of emotional intelligence in a customer-facing role.
A "ghost job" is a job that isn't real. It's a job for a company that isn't actually hiring, or at least hiring for the role advertised. More than 1,000 hiring managers were surveyed, and 27% of them admitted that they've left these jobs up for over four months, never intending to fill them.
James Schreier's insight:
New phenomena? Sort of! Companies used to run "blind ads" in newspapers to accomplish some of the same things.
“What happens in all too many cases is that the CEO stands up in a public forum and makes a big pronouncement that degrees won’t be required. The organization snaps to attention to do what the CEO wants. Then, 12 months later, the CEO’s attention is on the next priority and nobody is paying attention to this anymore,” Sigelman explains. “The firm relapses because it never actually changed its hiring processes.”
A recent survey contains a disturbing statistic about the role that content-creating generative AI plays in the modern-day job hunt: A majority of working adults would consider using AI tools to embellish or lie on their resumes.
Running a company has never been harder. Here's how CEOs can practice self-care.
James Schreier's insight:
Calls for better support at the highest levels: coaching, assessments, etc. Burnout is an obvious issue -- but I'm also seeing the need for connecting to emotional intelligence.
Do you know what evidence-based hiring is? Well, it's going to directly impact how you get a job in the future. If you want to understand evidence-based hiring so that you can make sure you're standing out to employers, continu
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This is a fascinating -- and very serious issue. It's one with a history and so many implications that are not well understood.