Ellen Ernst Kossek, N. Sharon Hill, Isabel Villamor, Brenda A. Lautsch and Matthew B. Perrigino

The news seems full of companies abandoning remote and hybrid work, requiring their employees to come to the office five days a week. You may wonder if your company should follow suit. Instead of immediately jumping on the RTO bandwagon, however, consider whether and how your strategic goals might actually benefit from a more flexible work arrangement.

David Rice

HR fatigue is wreaking havoc with people teams. Learn how leaders can better support the team that supports employees.

Henrik Saabye and Thomas Borup Kristensen

Leaders’ essential but overlooked role in facilitating learning can be enhanced with this five-part process.

Gretchen Gavett

AI is often touted as a way to handle busy work to free people up for tasks that matter. But in the race to add automation to pretty much every job, it’s rare that people question what, exactly, people are being freed from, and which tasks actually matter. This interview with sociologist Allison J. Pugh explores what she calls “connective labor,” why it’s under threat from automation, who will be most affected, and what we’ll lose as humans if it disappears.

Kelli Korducki

The middle manager class is under attack. Is it still fit for purpose, or are engineering teams due a reshuffle?

Marc-Peter Pijper

Imagine this: you wake up in a hospital, surrounded by people who know you, but you don’t recognize any of them. Sounds like the plot of a surreal movie,…

Thomas Pocock, Ryan Polk and Ryan Tandler

The vast majority of organizations today attempt transformation by focusing on efficiency, following what can be described as a “minimum viable product” strategy. Business leaders taking this approach prioritize speed at every turn, trying to implement transformed workflows — and thereby the transformation itself — as quickly as possible to begin extracting value sooner to keep up with the pace of change they are confronting. While a seemingly common-sense approach, Gartner research found that in the context of functional transformation, the efficiency-focused approach has almost no impact on improving the success of a transformation. An alternate approach, which they call “designed simplicity,” improves the chance of transformation success while reducing the risk of unintended consequences.

Chiara Spina and Elena Novelli

New research on 261 UK start-ups reveals that adopting a scientific approach to decision-making can have different effects depending on the maturity of the business model. Established ventures that used scientific methods to optimize their existing strategies saw immediate performance gains, whereas early-stage start-ups experienced economic performance declines as they questioned and revised fundamental business assumptions.

David Tuckett

Being able to manage the emotional discomfort of uncertainty is critical to sound decision-making.

Jackie Colburn

Steal My Facilitator-Approved Questions to Kickstart Creative Conversations and Team Collaboration