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Jan 15, 2025 | 
kornferry.com | Mark Royal |David Vied |Maria amato |Tom McMullen |Seth M. Steinberg
Habits are the fuel of success. Whether it’s grabbing a cup of coffee before settling into a big project, decamping to the couch for deep thinking, or jogging at midday to spur fresh thoughts, these often-ignored behaviors set the stage for high performance, experts say. But these small habits may be forgotten in favor of the goal-oriented plan of just doing the task.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
kornferry.com | Seth M. Steinberg |Deepali Vyas |David Vied
Last year, 10% of non-retail workers ended up working on Christmas day, and 44% logged hours over the holidays, according to data from CalendarLabs. Many had to work the holiday because they had heavy workloads or couldn’t schedule around their coworkers. Don’t expect less work, either. After two relatively quiet years, most companies expect a return to the hectic workdays that usually occur before right before the end-of-year holidays.
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
kornferry.com | Tom McMullen |David Vied |Maria amato
The top employee was only given a small raise for a great year. But at least, his manager thought, she’d be happy with the boost in the firm’s benefits. If only she knew what they were. It turns out that despite strong efforts by HR department to broadcast benefit increases, just 29% of executives fully comprehend them, according to the 2024 US Executive Compensation and Benefits Trend Report by NFP, a property broker.
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
kornferry.com | David Vied |Deepali Vyas
It’s a rough year for people whose career specialties overlap substantially with the core competencies of generative AI. Just two years ago, the job market favored researchers, marketers, and basic finance analysts. Now a bot can perform the majority of the tasks each role demands—albeit awkwardly and with plenty of errors. Experts say that the emergence of AI is not the end of the road for content creators and software developers.
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Sep 25, 2024 | 
kornferry.com | Maria amato |Dan Kaplan |David Vied |Dennis Carey
It’s made more than a few headlines—companies pushing out a CEO, but replacing them with an outside executive instead of the more usual insider. Now they have a new issue: What do they do with the snubbed executive who’s still on the firm’s payroll? Historically, the problem has been self-resolving, with one Harvard study of successions from 2005 to 2015 finding that 74% of passed-over candidates left their firm. But today, more of these would-be CEOs are staying on, creating an awkward détente.
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Sep 18, 2024 | 
kornferry.com | David Vied |Alma Derricks |Dennis Deans
Today, even strong candidates say they’re waiting forever to find jobs in certain sectors. But now, many of them are suddenly getting offers—from identity thieves posing as recruiters or hiring managers. Faux job ads are spreading at an alarming rate, fueled by AI that allows criminals to easily whip up believable job descriptions and accompanying disinformation, such as fake recruiter profiles on social media.
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Aug 21, 2024 | 
kornferry.com | David Vied |Dan Kaplan |JP Sniffen
An increasing number of CEOs might have given up on the dream of bringing everyone back to the office. According to a recent survey, only 34% of CEOs expect workers to be in the office five days a week during the next three years. That’s a precipitous drop from 62% in the same survey last year. “There’s one CEO, there are thousands of employees, and the CEO is getting worn down,” says David Vied, global sector leader in Korn Ferry’s Medical Devices and Diagnostics practice.
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Jul 10, 2024 | 
kornferry.com | Deepali Vyas |Dennis Deans |Maria amato |David Vied |Mark Royal
After five years on the job, the employee could do her job in her sleep. Her enthusiasm had slipped, but she still got her work done, with exemplary performance in key areas and enviable institutional knowledge. Observing all of this, her manager wondered: Did she want to be there? How could he keep her motivated?
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Jun 18, 2024 | 
kornferry.com | Dan Kaplan |David Vied |David Ellis |Adam Prager |Mark Arian
For decades, the skilled, hardworking employee had little to worry about. Even in hard times, most could switch firms and find new roles. Recent college graduates might struggle at the start, and ageism might rear its ugly head for older applicants, but the notion that substantial numbers of workers might be unemployable was not something that a wide range of executives ever worried about.
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Apr 24, 2024 | 
kornferry.com | Brian Bloom |David Vied |Anu Gupta |Dan Kaplan
If you’re a leader who really wants your employees at the office full-time, there may be a new solution: Join a small firm. According to new data, firms with fewer than 5,000 employees are nearly three times as likely to require full-time attendance from their workers as firms with more than 25,000 employees. In all, 23% of smaller firms require full-time office work, while only 8% of the largest firms do.
