Leaders can create a positive work culture and encourage employee growth by developing a team-building strategy that includes skills development, promotes psychological safety and encourages accountability, Laura Gallaher writes. "Psychological safety allows employees to feel safe being themselves at work, as well as feeling safe to voice opinions, thoughts, or ideas in collaboration with teammates," Gallaher writes.

Many companies are overlooking untapped talent in terms of hiring neurodivergent people, according to Microsoft official Neil Barnett, who leads the Neurodiversity @ Work Employer Roundtable. Microsoft has a neurodiversity-focused hiring program that has expanded its scope after initially focusing on people with autism.

Good performance reviews start before the conversation, because when "employees are not in a headspace to receive feedback, it will not be heard," says Intuit talent leader Jessica Dang. This article draws on experts to suggest the ideal cadence of performance reviews, key questions to ask and why 360 reviews are still important.

The pandemic sidelined Diana Vicezar's plans to spend college abroad in California rather than her home of Paraguay, a situation that opened her eyes to the struggles that international students have in finding work opportunities in the US and led her to develop Mapis, a no-cost career development platform. "There are not many resources out there, so that inspired me to create a platform where I could centralize all the opportunities open to international students," Vicezar says.

Earlier in the pandemic, younger and less-tenured workers were the main catalysts of The Great Resignation, but new data suggest the movement is evolving to include older and more tenured professionals resigning despite a looming recession and continued inflation. There doesn't appear to be an overarching reason why this is happening, but some observers have quipped that this stage of the The Great Resignation is something of a "great midlife crisis."

The number of job openings rose to a new record high of 11.5 million in March, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, up from 11.3 million in February and above the previous record of 11.4 million set in December. The number of workers leaving their jobs also reached a new monthly high in March at 4.5 million as the US job market continues a hot streak that has seen more than 400,000 jobs added monthly over the past year.

The great outdoors is not particularly amenable to people with reduced mobility, but Outrider USA is looking to change that with what it says is the lightest production 4x4 -- an all-electric, single-seat off-road vehicle. The $13,985 vehicle is a beacon of sustainability, too; it can fit in a small hatchback and comes with solar-charging capacity.

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