Shanda Mints

Jan 20, 2025 | kornferry.com | Shanda Mints |Ronald Porter |JP Sniffen

It’s a figure that will make job hunters do a double take, then shake their heads: For every five roles firms advertise online, they likely aren’t filling one of them. That’s the conclusion of hiring platform Greenhouse, which works with multiple organizations on job postings. After examining its own data, Greenhouse reports that about one out of every five jobs advertised online is for a role that companies will never fill.

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.

Jun 12, 2024 | kornferry.com | Deepali Vyas |Shanda Mints |Ronald Porter

The manager calling the Zoom meeting could sense something was off. Most of the workers on his screen looked stressed or tired. But a few were tanned, joking, and very relaxed. He wondered: Could they be on vacations that they hadn’t formally requested? The answer might be yes.

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.

May 8, 2024 | kornferry.com | Dan Kaplan |Shanda Mints |David Ellis

A salesperson might expect a little more free time in their schedule if they had 30% fewer products to sell. A mechanic might think the same if they had 30% fewer cars to fix. But nothing is as it seems when it comes to the US job market. Even as the number of open job roles has fallen to its lowest level in three years, experts say talent professionals haven’t gotten much of a break in workload, suggesting that corporate hiring processes remain chaotic—for both job seekers and HR staff.