Carbon emissions linked to commuting and office operations fell during the pandemic largely thanks to teleworking, but new research from the Carbon Trust indicates the practice isn't necessarily "green." Working from home still requires power, and associated emissions vary depending on local energy supplies. Areas with ample renewables can expect to see emissions fall, while the opposite is true in communities reliant on fossil fuels.

A Carnegie Mellon study suggests that audio-only interactions may prevent the erosion of team intelligence that too many videoconference calls may cause, writes Adi Gaskell. Other researchers have discovered that visual and audio cues are both needed to effectively collaborate, meaning leaders need to be selective about how and when they use video versus audio, writes Gaskell.

US banks employed 24% fewer tellers in the past 10 years, a trend that could result in fewer pathways to career growth in banking for women, who hold four out of five teller positions. Some of the industry's top executives got their start as tellers, with former Wells Fargo Chair Betsy Duke noting: "I wouldn't have been a banker without it. I wouldn't have had the career that I had."

The federal government must create diversity standards that include accessibility and equity for federal employees and submit that plan within 150 days, according to an executive order issued last week. The order also requires employee credentials for non-conforming, non-binary and transgender employees to reflect their current name and pronoun preference, and the order compels agencies to engage in more diversity training.

The educational attainment gap may have narrowed in the last 40 years between Black and white Americans, but the wage gap hasn't, and economic experts have been examining to what extent racism is to blame when compared to other factors. Black employees who have the same education as white workers earn around 20% less, per the Economic Policy Institute, and economics professor Darrick Hamilton says, "Race is a deciding factor."

Stress can come and go, but burnout can be difficult to detect because it progresses gradually. Symptoms of burnout include reduced sleep and insomnia, feeling overwhelmed, a sense of alienation, fatigue, feeling ineffective, loss of happiness and anxiety or depression. "We don't become burned out after a couple of rough days, and unlike being stressed, burnout feels like there's no hope," writes career coach Rachel Montanez.

For all these years, one of the more peculiar things about visiting the Colosseum was that you'd walk out onto a modern platform that was perched above an underground system of pathways and tunnels. You could look down on that area, but not explore it on foot ... until now.