Kate Shattuck

Jul 10, 2024 | kornferry.com | Kate Shattuck |Maria amato |Deepali Vyas |Alma Derricks

Too busy with other tasks to get to that one project? Backed up on filing expense reports? Or just too burned out or too unmotivated to finish a job? Why not hire someone to do your work for you? In the latest trend to upend traditional workplace norms, people are hiring stand-ins to do parts or all of their own jobs, often without their employer’s knowledge.

Jun 26, 2024 | kornferry.com | John Long |Kate Shattuck |Sidney Cooke

In corporate land, the front line of consumer environmentalism is packaging: 22 billion packages, mostly retail and commercial, were mailed in the US last year. Most of those packages—hopefully—included padding to protect their contents, often in the form of those little air-filled plastic pillows, which most recipients toss in the trash. That is about to change.