Leaders sometimes need to make quick decisions, but taking time to have what leadership coach Chuck Wisner calls "conscious conversations" that allow others to have input and leaders to ask questions can improve the quality of those decisions. "A thirty-minute conscious conversation takes far less time than the time needed to undo work after an unvetted or a pressured decision," Wisner writes.

Leaders can use structured processes in meetings to limit the time taken by talkative team members and increase input from more reticent ones, and one-on-one conversations can also help, writes Ed Batista. "[A] starting point can simply be learning more about what's going on with this person in other domains of work or life that might be affecting their participation in the group," Batista writes.

Employees who had no paid sick time quit up to four times more often than others during the pandemic from 2019 to 2021, according to a report issued by the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis. "American workers deserve to know that, no matter what crisis they may face, they will not have to choose between keeping their families fed and caring for themselves and their loved ones," said subcommittee Chairman James Clyburn, D-S.C., who suggested the report indicates the need for universal paid leave.

Tax policies have not kept pace with work-from-anywhere models and the dozens of countries offering digital nomad visas. Employers should check on requirements regarding tax treaties, withholdings and visas, experts say.

Controlling language -- such as asking team members to "drive" performance or results -- can actually hamper motivation and lead to a toxic workplace, writes Susan Fowler. "Consider an alternative vocabulary that reflects justice and promotes optimal motivation based on values, a noble purpose and contributing to the greater good," Fowler writes.

A study of people going through a haunted house attraction by researchers at Aarhus University's Recreational Fear Lab in Denmark has found there may be a "sweet spot" for our experience of fear which is that place "where the context is not too terrifying, but not too tame either," researcher Marc Malmdorf-Andersen says. In that sweet spot, chemicals such as dopamine and endorphins are released in the brain soon after the scare, providing a sense of pleasure.