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☆ Amazon's RTO push is an outlier — the tech world remains all-in on hybrid work
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-03 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Despite return-to-office mandates at Amazon and Dell, the tech world still appears to favor hybrid work. Experts say hybrid work boosts recruitment and retention and could be crucial amid tech talent wars. But while it may seem like workers are losing the battle for remote work, research suggests that hybrid work is still the norm in the tech industry. While some large companies, such as Nvidia, have remained holdouts, most Big Tech companies have had hybrid policies of various degrees. So as long as productivity stays up, I think hybrid work is here to stay in the tech world."

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☆ Nike's new CEO was an intern at the brand in 1988. He's now in charge of saving one of the biggest sports apparel legacies in the world.
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-20 | by ( Aditi Bharade | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Read previewNike's incoming CEO is an old face in the company, having worked his way up the ranks from intern to C-Suite exec. He's set to take over Nike's outgoing CEO, John Donahoe, who has led the company since 2020. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. According to Hill's biography, which Nike shared with BI, he started in the company as an apparel sales representative intern in 1988. AdvertisementNike representatives did not respond to a request for comment from Business Insider sent outside business hours.

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☆ Get ready for nasty layoffs and say goodbye to the 4-day workweek
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-06 | by ( Tim Paradis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

It's a troubling thought, to be sure, but a longer workweek is already a reality for some workers. AdvertisementIt's the kind of thing that could make an employer less inclined to try something new — like a four-day workweek. Yet even without lackluster sales, Cappelli said, the four-day workweek was already unlikely to be widely adopted in the US. But, at the same time, Cappelli also doesn't think companies will push workers to come in on a sixth day. If companies use economic worries to reverse course on efforts like flexible work arrangements or to conduct layoffs, they put their own well-being at risk.

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☆ Job seekers are jumping through more hoops to get hired as power shifts back to employers
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-25 | by ( Alexandra Bacon | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Read previewThe hiring process seems to have become increasingly complex in recent years, with job seekers facing new tests, more interviews, and months of waiting to hear back from prospective employers. Job seekers have been taking to social media to complain about jumping through various hiring hoops just to secure an entry-level job. He said that in recent years, the hiring process has slowed down as the number of interview rounds has increased: "It reflects a lack of understanding by employers about what they're actually looking for." Advertisement"Many interviews and job assessments now take place online, which means candidates need to adapt to virtual interactions and later demonstrate their skills remotely," she said. When job interviews started to be done on Zoom and managers had fewer opportunities to evaluate candidates, more employers began using cognitive and psychometric assessments as part of their hiring process.

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☆ What to do if you think you're underpaid
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-02 | by ( Charlotte Morabito | In Charlottemorabito | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

"It never occurred to me until that conversation that I was severely underpaid." She said she didn't think to negotiate her salary when she received the job offer. "The term underpaid shouldn't be used to compare you to a colleague," said Sho Dewan, career expert and founder of Workhap. One option if you suspect you're being underpaid is to request a salary adjustment from your employer. This is where that market research comes in handy, along with highlights from your performance review.

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☆ Official Amazon HR document reveals a spike in employees put on PIPs during a time of record layoffs
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-20 | by ( Eugene Kim | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

Layoffs vs. terminationsThe spike in PIPs coincided with 27,000 layoffs that Amazon announced between November 2022 and March 2023. "Managers, however, do not engage in performance management work eagerly. "To suggest we use our performance management process to drive any other outcome, such as reducing our employee base, is wrong," Callahan added in a statement. PIPs and quiet firingSome Amazon employees previously told BI that the company had put more people on PIPs as part of what they perceived as the quiet-firing push. Amazon had roughly 400,000 total corporate employees in that period, according to another internal document obtained by BI.

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☆ Remote Employees Are More Likely to Get Laid Off; WFH Is Risky
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-15 | by ( Emily Stewart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Executives at the online furniture retailer Wayfair told its staff in January that remote workers were likelier to be hit in its latest round of job cuts. Add in long-term trends, like the decline in loyalty between employers and employees , and it's no wonder remote workers feel anxious about cuts. “It’s not too surprising,” Peter Cappelli, a management professor at the Wharton School who has never been a big fan of remote work, said. “That is something remote workers should be thinking about as they’re engaging with supervisors,” she said. Remote workers aren’t doomed to the unemployment line, but they may want to try a little extra to get noticed.

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The Tesla (TSLA.O) CEO told advertisers who have fled his social media platform X over antisemitic content to "Go fuck yourself!" Several business communications analysts said they couldn't remember a similar case of an executive publicly cursing at their customers. Musk, Tesla and X did not respond to requests for comment. Musk apologized for it and then cursed and dismissed the concerns of the advertisers fleeing the platform. Cappelli said Musk wishes to see himself as a rock star, not a business leader who needs to take account of many constituencies.

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☆ The boss is back in charge
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-17 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | Sarah Jackson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

After a brief transition of power to workers, it feels like bosses are back in charge. Between the rise of AI, return-to-office mandates, and layoffs — employee anxiety is high. Between the rise of job-threatening AI, strict return-to-office mandates, and sweeping layoffs, it feels like bosses are clawing back what little remains of employees' power . The economic trend began in early 2021 in the wake of the pandemic and saw millions of workers quit their jobs . AdvertisementAdvertisementThe charge is largely being led by Big Tech and banks, with varying degrees of severity and pushback.

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☆ A Maui restaurant owner is 'praying visitors will start to come back soon'
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-20 | by ( Jyoti Mann | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Local businesses on Maui say they're suffering as tourism falls following deadly wildfires. Coconut's Fish Cafe owner Michael Phillips told Insider that "Maui is in mourning" following the devastating wildfires that have killed at least 114 people and left thousands homeless. He said "tourists have to start coming back soon" before the local economy suffered long-term harm. The business owner said he'd already had to close one restaurant and make layoffs as it was losing $5,000 a day. "We ask that they shop at local small businesses and eat at local restaurants," she said.

Persons: Michael Phillips, Phillips, he'd, We've, YUKI IWAMURA, Tara Lee Murphy Organizations: Service, Getty, Panna, Aloha Locations: Maui, Wall, Silicon, Hawaii, Lahaina, AFP, Wailea

☆ Don’t Blame the Accounting Rule for the Manager’s Error
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-18 | by ( ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Peter Cappelli’s argument in “How a Common Accounting Rule Leads to More Layoffs and Less Job Training” (Journal Report, July 31) is like the argument that a hammer is the cause of bad construction. Accounting is a tool used to communicate some relatively reliable and objective information to aid in decision-making, such as allocating capital. If management chooses to misuse the tool and underinvest in employees to boost current accounting earnings at the expense of future accounting earnings, then perhaps the problem lies with management. Like a hammer, accounting rules don’t think, and like a good carpenter, good managers do.

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☆ 64% of investors surveyed feel unlimited vacation time could help companies beat the S&P 500 — but only 1 in 5 say this trend could actually gain traction
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-14 | by ( Kai Xiang Teo | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

2 in 3 surveyed investors feel companies with unlimited vacation could beat the S&P 500. Unlimited time off may make little difference to the leave days taken by employees. Of those surveyed, 65% of professional investors and 57% of retail investors believed unlimited vacation companies could outperform the S&P 500's performance. However, only 18%, or less than 1 in 5, believe the trend of unlimited vacation time is likely to take off. In 2022, Glassdoor reported a 75% increase in mentions of "unlimited" leave policies in employee reviews since the pandemic's onset.

Persons: Glassdoor, Wharton, Peter Cappelli Organizations: Service, Bloomberg, Netflix, Microsoft, Society for Human Resource Management, Employees, Fast Company Locations: Wall, Silicon

☆ The AI boom is screwing over Gen Z
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-17 | by ( Ed Zitron | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +13 min

Now, with the advent of generative AI, organizations are starting to automate many "junior" tasks — stripping away their dubious last attempt to "teach" young employees. America's young workers are headed toward a career calamity. Nobody wants to teach anymoreEven before the rise of AI, young people were facing an early-career crisis. This lack of care is clearly weighing on the young workers who need career development the most. Humans can be enhanced by AI, helped by AI, but replacing them with AI is a shortsighted decision made by myopic bean counters who can't see the value in a person.

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☆ Ex-Amazon managers say they were pressured to cut successful workers to meet attrition goals — and faced retribution when they resisted
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-27 | by ( Shana Lebowitz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +17 min

Former Amazon managers say they were pressured to cut successful workers to meet attrition goals. In anticipation of Amazon's performance-review period, he told Insider, he'd kept careful notes on what his employees were doing well and where they could improve. These people said leadership would place employees in Focus even if the managers of those employees said that the workers had met or exceeded expectations. A few weeks later, he said, his manager told him he was on Pivot and had the option to leave the company with severance, which he did. Amazon managers are required to submit their performance ratings for employees in an online tool, then discuss their rationale with managers above them, he said.

☆ Brazil ‘mega-protest’ fizzles amid authorities’ concern
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-12 | by ( The Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +5 min

BRASILIA, Brazil — Skittish Brazilian authorities on Wednesday spared no effort to boost security in the face of a social media flyer promoting a “mega-protest to retake power” in two dozen cities. On Brasilia’s esplanade surrounded by federal government buildings, authorities had designated an area for protest and stationed police and national guard troops. Just one couple showed, dressed in the same Brazil soccer jerseys that thousands of rioters wore four days earlier. Citing the call to protest, a Supreme Court justice ordered local authorities in cities across Brazil to prevent protesters from blocking roads or occupying public spaces and buildings. Justice Minister Flávio Dino told local press this week that authorities have identified some of the protest’s financiers.

☆ Brazilian authorities brace for possible repeat of uprising
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-11 | by ( Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +6 min

It was unclear how large or violent such demonstrations might shape up to be, but skittish authorities took no chances. Citing the call to action on social media, a Supreme Court justice ordered local authorities in cities across Brazil to prevent protesters from blocking roads or occupying public spaces and buildings. A police officer carries away part of a vandalized sculpture Tuesday at the Supreme Court building in Brasília. Carl De Souza / AFP - Getty ImagesJustice Minister Flávio Dino told local press this week that authorities have identified some of the protest’s financiers. In November, the Supreme Court froze 43 bank accounts of people accused of having financed roadblocks that disrupted highway traffic in the wake of Lula’s victory.

The government of leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva bolstered security measures nationwide as flyers appeared on pro-Bolsonaro social media calling for mass demonstrations in Brazilian cities to "retake power." Ricardo Cappelli, the federal official in charge of public security in the capital since Sunday, said all security forces had been mobilized to prevent protests and that there would be no repeat of rioting. So far, 727 of the over 1,500 involved in Sunday's riots have been imprisoned. The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld Moraes's arrest warrant for Anderson Torres, Bolsonaro's former justice minister who oversaw public security in Brasilia during Sunday's riots. The former president, whom Lula has blamed for inflaming the protests, did not mention Sunday's riots.

Anderson Torres, Bolsonaro's justice minister from 2021 to 2022, took a job as Brasilia security chief after leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva took office on Jan. 1. "This was a structured sabotage operation, commanded by Bolsonaro's ex-minister Anderson Torres," Ricardo Cappelli, the official leading a post-invasion federal intervention into Brasilia's public security, told CNN Brasil. "Torres took over as secretary for security (in Brasilia), dismissed the whole chain of command and then took a trip. The shakeup of capital security highlights a wider challenge facing Lula, whose new government must now deal with a sweeping criminal investigation of the Brasilia riots while establishing a fresh chain of command among police and security forces. For example, the appointment of Torres, 47, at the Justice Ministry followed years of friendly relations with Bolsonaro's family.

☆ As companies reinvent the performance review for the post-pandemic world, J&J is opting for more real-time conversations focused on development and career growth
▼ + stars: | 2021-12-20 | by ( Rebecca Knight | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Many organizations are reinventing their performance-review process for the post-pandemic world. "A colleague said to me, 'You know, the best performance review I ever got was on a napkin,'" said Ehret. At a time when many organizations are reinventing their performance-review process for the post-pandemic world, simplicity and effectiveness are guiding principles for J&J. 'We believe in paying people in a differential way for differentiated performance'In addition to changing the cadence of performance conversations, J&J made other modifications to its review process. For example, in the company's previous performance-review process, J&J employees were asked to record their achievements from the past year.

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