Bloomberg reported that those who are able to work from home can help stave off retirement longer and have better work-life balance with fewer distractions and faster work completion times. "Giving people more control over their time is the essence of work-from-home decisions," said Peter Cappelli, a professor of management and the director of the Center for Human Resources at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

TED Talks are famous for their storytelling, singular focus and compelling calls to action, and those tactics can similarly be inspiring in your meetings and presentations, writes John Millen. He outlines the structure for making any encounter more conversational and engaging.

When negotiating a new job offer, consider the benefits package, salary and perks such as remote work, more vacation and schedule flexibility. "You always want to go for the money first," says Kwame Christian of the American Negotiation Institute. "Because we know that money is exhaustible, but with these creative options, those are really largely inexhaustible."

Companies are finding they need to pay more not only to attract and retain talent, but also to reduce turnover-related costs and ensure long-term stability, HR leaders and other executives say. "Although the [pay] pendulum will swing back, I don't think it will swing back to pre-pandemic levels," says John Bremen, managing director of human capital and benefits with Willis Towers Watson.

One in three women have thought about leaving or changing jobs in 2021, in comparison to 1 in 4 in 2020, and 42% of women and 35% men report being burned out, compared to 32% and 28% in 2020, according to the annual "Women in the Workplace" study from McKinsey & Company and Lean In. The report warns that women leaders are taking on a disproportionate amount of unpaid work, such as DEI initiatives, which could be seen as "the new office housework."

Rather than just sell clothes to customers, fashion label Christy Dawn is giving shoppers the opportunity to pay for the plot of land on which clothing is produced. The $200 price tag covers the cost of farming cotton on 3,485 square feet of land. The shoppers are then given a store credit based on the value of the crops harvested on the land.