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There's a middle ground between quiet quitting and burning yourself out: it's called "enoughness." But not so much that it controls your life and you don't have energy for yourself. According to Robert Kelley, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University's Tepper School of Business, there's a word for what many of us are seeking: "enoughness." We don't want to slack off, or even quiet quit, but we're less willing to make our jobs our top concern. "Very few people get recharged from their work," Kelley said.
But career strategists say it's important that short-timers exit with dignity. But can you blame him when he got a better job offer, complete with a remote-work option, an elevated title, and a $30,000 raise plus a sign-on bonus? Robert Kelley, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University's Tepper School of Business, chalked up all this quick quitting to dramatic shifts in how people think about work. But Kelley and others say it's important that short-timers exit with dignity — no need to burn bridges, after all. Kelley advised offering to stay even longer even if it means delaying the start of your next job.
Elon Musk didn't sign the memo announcing mass layoffs at Twitter. The approach starkly contrasts with other recent layoffs; experts say Twitter's style may hurt in the long run. One expert said Musk's handling of the firings treated workers like "commodities, not like valued employees." Management experts say Musk's "impersonal" approach to layoffs may hurt the company in the long run. Robert Kelley, a management professor at Carnegie Mellon University's Tepper School of Business, said Twitter treated people like "commodities, not like valued employees" in its handling of the firings.
Performance reviews are around the corner, but is it harder to evaluate fully remote workers? Managers are tasked with measuring the productivity of in-person, hybrid, and remote workers. There are differing views on whether remote workers should be concerned with how their performance is measured. Focus on performance metricsYolanda Seals-Coffield, the chief people officer at PricewaterhouseCoopers, says remote workers have nothing to fear. Maintain professional decorumWorking from home can create a certain informality among teams, but Pyrzenski says remote workers shouldn't get too comfortable.
Persons: Chelsea Pyrzenski, Yolanda Seals, Pyrzenski, Celia Balson, Robert Kelley, Kelley, Slack Organizations: PricewaterhouseCoopers, Google, Carnegie Mellon University's Tepper School of Business
Some HR pros use coded language to warn counterparts about train-wreck job candidates. There are discreet signals human-resources pros flash to one another to warn about job candidates who look good on paper but are disasters in the workplace. This HR Morse code, often undetectable by job seekers, can determine whether someone lands a job or gets ghosted by a would-be employer. Loose lips can sink careersWhile employers are generally permitted to provide truthful information about former employees to prospective employers, Barreto advises clients to avoid discussing how former workers performed. Kelley warns that employers who make hiring decisions based on word of mouth risk missing out on strong candidates.
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