When I was growing up, the adults who raised me demonstrated that the right to rest was explicitly reserved for the dead. As I got older, I realized this was not just how my extremely hard-working parents ran their household, but a rigid mindset for so many of us in the Black community. This is … Read more
When a company decides to cut costs, employees are all too familiar with the shrinking budgets and painful layoffs that can follow. But what if instead of a “reduction in force,” your employer tells you that you are getting a “reassignment of duties”? Also dubbed as “quiet cutting,” it’s what happens when you lose the … Read more
With artificial intelligence systems quickly evolving, it’s not uncommon to feel anxious about the development of technology and how that may affect our own jobs. According to a Forbes advisory survey, 77% of people are concerned that AI will cause job loss in the next year as businesses are looking to increase overall productivity. Even … Read more
Human resources departments, which are also sometimes called “employee experience” or “people operations” teams, can have a bad reputation for not being someone an employee can trust. Daniel Space, a senior HR business partner for large tech, media and entertainment companies, said the reason for negative assumptions about HR can be because employees often have … Read more