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Jan 8, 2025 | 
kornferry.com | Tom McMullen |Dennis Deans
We’ve all experienced it: the grouchy boss. Asking excessively detailed questions. Making unreasonable demands. Asking for next month’s assignment by Friday. Now, we may know one reason for all this grumpiness—and why workers may be experiencing it more.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
kornferry.com | Maria amato |Guangrong Dai |Dennis Deans |Brittney Molitor
Work lunches, unless they’re extravagant affairs covered by an expense account, aren’t usually known for their great cuisine. They exist mostly so that workers can take a few minutes to restore some energy for the remainder of the day. But it turns out that work lunches might no longer even meet that modest objective. Nearly half—49%—of full-time employees say they skip lunch at least once a week, according to a survey by ezCater, a corporate-catering firm.
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
kornferry.com | Mark Royal |Dennis Deans |Paul Fogel |Tom McMullen
It’s not much of a secret to corporate leaders that a growing number of workers are expressing unhappiness with their jobs. After all, it was only a couple of years ago that “quiet quitting” and the Great Resignation were making headlines. But a recent survey of employee drive suggests an even darker picture. Instead of saying that they’re growing, developing, and getting ahead, a shocking majority of employees feel that they are basically just hanging on.
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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 28, 2024 | 
kornferry.com | Maria amato |Dennis Deans |Paul Fogel |Ronald Porter
The factors in people’s decisions to come into the office can be endless, whether it’s length of commute, family-care issues, or the need to attend in-person meetings, among many others. Recently, a new type of seemingly unrelated crime has become an issue. Thanks to a new crime wave known as “porch piracy,” some 44 million Americans have had a package stolen in the last three months, according to data from Security.org—in all, a total of $8 billion annually in lost goods.
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Aug 21, 2024 | 
kornferry.com | Ronald Porter |Maria amato |Dennis Deans
As markets continue to fluctuate amid economic woes—and as AI disrupts industry after industry—it’s not surprising that firms and analysts believe layoffs will continue into fall and winter. What is surprising is the factor leaders blame for this development: employee performance. One year after they cited overhiring as the primary cause of layoffs, some 30% of HR leaders, in a new report, blame underperformance for cutbacks—placing it in a tie with overhiring as the number-one factor.
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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 28, 2024 | 
kornferry.com | Maria amato |Ronald Porter |Dennis Deans |Shanda Mints
Remember when “retirement” meant leaving the workforce? These days, the options include partial retirement, semiretirement, and now flex retirement. As you may have already noted, none of these arrangements actually involves leaving the workforce. In “flex retirement,” the latest workplace euphemism, someone works on a flexible schedule, whether it’s a standard 9-to-5 with extra vacation months, a shorter workweek, or a discrete project.
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May 28, 2024 | 
kornferry.com | Shanda Mints |Mark Royal |Dan Kaplan |Dennis Deans |Chris Cantarella
He felt like a high-school teacher being ignored by his students. The meeting was supposed to fire everyone up, but instead, the members of his department were just staring at him blankly, nodding their heads, but not really paying attention. Everyone seemed bored—and according to the latest hashtag to explode on social media, they probably were. For millions of people, work has become little more than fodder for memes.
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May 1, 2024 | 
kornferry.com | Anu Gupta |Maria amato |Shanda Mints |Dennis Deans
Their boss told them to work past 6 PM. Their colleague did a shoddy job on a project, leaving them to do the work of fixing it. Their colleague in the office next door wears too much cologne. For reasons serious and silly, people get frustrated at work every day.
