There are five habits that can stifle your productivity and creativity, including checking your phone right when you get up, says Jodie Cook. Set the tone for your day by either setting a timer to deal with these emails or leave them for later and stay present in your most important task or thoughts for your day.
A survey by global staffing firm Robert Half found 73% of respondents say breaking their workday into chunks of professional and personal time, also known as windowed work, helps them be productive. Thirty-nine percent of workers older than 55 preferred a traditional workday compared to 22% of those aged 25 to 40, and 78% of those with children preferred windowed work.
Leaders need to be patient, open-minded and specific when trying to resolve conflict or change an employee's behavior, writes Marlene Chism. She offers three actions to take, including exploring your assumptions and owning your role in the problem.
Businesses will have the opportunity to recruit a more diverse workforce now that remote work has become more normal, but employers will need new ways to showcase their company culture, says LinkedIn's Mark Lobosco. To stand out, Lobosco suggests employers find ways in the interview process to communicate company culture and highlight internal mobility.
Leaders can ease the pain of layoffs in how they deliver the news and by the compensation offered, write Kellogg School of Management professors Kent Grayson and Sanjay Khosla. "When the business conditions improve, valued employees will likely be eager to return, in part because of the trust that has been established with the team," they write.
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The monthly Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey, released Tuesday showed a rebound in hiring for May, but economists warn about becoming optimistic. "It is hard to imagine these millions of job postings across the country are real. Our guess is many of the openings are merely leftovers from the best labor market in 50 years at the start of a year," says economist Chris Rupkey.
Harvard University's Faculty of Arts and Sciences announced plans to bring up to 40% of its undergraduates to campus, including all first-year students, for the fall semester, with all students taking classes online. However, tuition fees will not change, which may lead to unrest among students who feel virtual instruction should result in lower tuition.
