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As companies push for an RTO, the risk of increased sexual harassment looms. Discover why remote work offers a safer environment and what can be done to protect employees.

Workers stayed remote even when told they could no longer be promoted.

“I love repeating myself” – said nobody ever. When asked to repeat ourselves, we seem to fall on a spectrum from “I don’t like it” to “I dread it so much it makes my blood boil”. People generally don’t like repeating themselves. As software engineers, we run into this far too often, probably because we value efficiency. The DRY principle in programming also doesn’t help. We’re taught that repetition, at least in code, is a bad practice and can lead to maintenance nightmares.

Delve into the world of artificial intelligence and its current strengths and limitations. We really need to explore AI with eyes wide open!

Seemingly every company and law firm has announced rules for the safe use of AI, but even well-crafted policies might fail the human-nature test.

Some Big Law firms are now making summer associates learn the ins and outs of generative AI as they begin integrating what’s considered to be a game-changing technology for the profession.

We need to look with fresh eyes to what work has become

If Congress doesn’t get Google and Meta to agree to Section 230 reforms, it’s going to destroy the rest of the open internet, while Google and Meta will be just fine. If that sounds stupidly counte…

In recent years companies have removed college-degree requirements from many of their job postings. They’ve done this for good reason: Talent is scarce, and requiring degrees eliminates almost two-thirds of workers from consideration, a disproportionate number of them Black and Hispanic. But there’s a problem: For every 100 of these new postings, fewer than four additional candidates without degrees are actually hired. The authors of this article argue that it’s time to do more to make skills-based hiring a reality, and they present six ways that companies and hiring managers can do so.

Managers play a vital role in fostering a culture of continuous learning within their teams. Here are 5 ways to make L&D easier for managers.

Emails used to be a nightmare to get, but now they're one of the best ways to get your news and content from your favorite publications.

‘Law firms have conflated using time as a management tool with using it as a pricing tool,’ said Richard Burcher, a pricing expert and chair of the Virtual Pricing Director platform. And this goes …

Creating a path to promotion: Discover why organizations should communicate expectations and opportunities for career growth to their employees.

The month, Career Coach Wendy Terwelp offers advice on how to research potential employers during your job search.

Because of the link between empathy and organizational outcomes, the key actionable issue is whether improved empathy can be learned through coaching, training, or the establishment of explicit group norms. Accumulating evidence shows that individuals and teams can get better at empathy using specific techniques and interventions.

The M365 Conference takes place in Orlando, FL from April 28 to May 2, 2024. I have two sessions, but my attempts to find sessions that cover all of M365 failed

Global research from The Workforce Institute at UKG spotlights the critical role jobs, leadership, and, most of all, managers play in supporting mental health.

A new survey shows that 41% of senior executives at global companies believe there will be a reduction in workforce sizes as they adopt generative AI, contradicting the narrative of AI as a helper.

Learn how customer training can help your business reduce churn, improve adoption, and retain revenue in this informative article.

If you want to accomplish more at work, practice these communication techniques to connect better and strengthen work relationships.

Rather than improving its product—or admitting people don't want it—Microsoft is throwing shade.

A new study considers 30 years of comments, with surprising conclusions

Discover the potential of conversational AI tools with reshaping performance support at work. Traditional L&D is getting an upgrade.

Explore the pivotal trend reshaping the legal industry: the growing reliance on collaboration tools like Microsoft Teams and Slack, and how they are influencing communication and data management in legal practices.