Employers are increasingly reassigning workers instead of laying them off amid restructuring, but some wonder if this signifies a "quiet cutting" trend where companies are trying to push employees out while saving on severance pay. "I've seen lots of examples in my practice where employees are told they're being let go in a 'restructuring' and it turns out that they're the only one affected," says employment attorney Angela L. Walker.

Studying your audience can go a long way in polishing internal communications and open an opportunity to cater messages by groups, writes Michael DesRochers of PoliteMail Software. In this commentary, DesRochers notes that Tuesday is the best day of the week to get employees' attention, sending messages early in the workday is preferable, and that framing a top executive as the sender will get more attention.

Research by the Center for Vital Longevity at the University of Texas at Dallas suggests that older adults who engage in regular, intensive fitness practices tend to have "younger" brains than people who are not as active. Investigators describe in the journal Neuroscience how strenuous exercise and good cardiorespiratory fitness allow older adult brains to make up for age-related decline by bolstering their ability to handle complex cognitive tasks.

The workplace presents key opportunities for expanded access to banking and financial wellness services for employees from underserved demographics, researchers noted in a Commonwealth report. Employers can help by enabling staff members to automate financial decisions, partnering with banking institutions to provide benefits, offering financial wellness programming, and practicing financial inclusion in the work environment.

The typical worker receives 30 emails each day, a Statista study reports, but the ones we send tend not to be inviting or especially helpful. Common errors include poor subject lines, a lack of greeting, huge blocks of text, no call to action (or too many) and a lack of gratitude, writes nonprofit strategic communications executive Joel Schwartzberg.