Leaders must be "ruthless" in setting priorities for their team -- and themselves -- to avoid or clear up backlogs and provide clear direction on what projects to focus on and when, writes Kristin Hendrix. "Without this approach, we make meaningless progress on many things, instead of meaningful progress on one," Hendrix writes.

Workers on TikTok are sharing stories about burnout using the hashtag #quietquitting, which currently has more than 18 million views, but the term doesn't refer to leaving a job -- relating instead to a refusal to go above and beyond, perform tasks outside of job descriptions or work overtime. Leaders must start regularly talking to workers, says leadership and career coach Kathy Caprino, noting, "If you don't understand the internal state of your employees, things are going to happen that you're going to be blindsided by."

Becoming talent creators by upskilling and reskilling current employees, as well as partnering with others for training and apprenticeships, can help guard against the looming manufacturing job shortage and loss of work due to lack of workers, writes Chris Keaveney, CEO of Meritize. "Because hiring is expensive, it makes financial sense to invest in models that let companies harvest the rewards of growing their own talent," writes Keaveney, who also highlights training examples from Lucid Motors, BMW, Taco Comfort Solutions and others.

US firms are set to bring back nearly 350,000 jobs due to reshoring this year, according to a Reshoring Initiative report. Analysts credit the decline of globalization, supply chain constraints brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, and industry-friendly legislation such as the CHIPS and Science Act for the trend.

The local government of Sedona, Ariz., is offering homeowners stipends of up to $10,000 if they open their homes to workers in the area. Other communities that are offering incentives for homeowners to provide short-term rentals as workforce housing include Truckee, Calif., Winter Park, Colo. and Woodstock, Vt.

Burnout in the workplace can be caused by a number of different problems -- Overload Burnout, Neglect Burnout and Under-Challenged Burnout -- and each kind of burnout requires its own solution, writes executive coach and author Melody Wilding. "Because people don't burn out in the exact same way or for the exact same reasons, it's important to identify the type of burnout that you may be facing," Wilding writes.

Population trends shape the world in which we live. There is a lot of info to feast on in this infographic about where the next 1,000 babies will be born around the world. It's no surprise that Asia and Africa are expected to continue their baby boom, but it's still startling to see how few babies will come from Europe. No country in Europe will be home to more than 10 of the next 1,000 babies.