While the numbers of people quitting their jobs in 2021 are higher than normal, a closer look at all the existing data suggests the current trend isn’t as dramatic as news headlines imply.
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The passion paradigm can fuel demands for better, more meaningful work, but this is only possible when it’s accompanied by a strong social safety net.
Organizations can reduce some of the negative effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Providing customizable support measures can improve employees’ work commitment and well-being.
The narrative of the Great Resignation is that workers hate their jobs and are desperate to quit. The data tells a somewhat different story.
Problems limiting the growth of the sector aren’t self-inflicted. They’re firmly rooted in the country’s development agenda.
Employees are demanding a more human-centric workplace, with space for trust and vulnerability. Management is over. The era of co-creation is underway.
One of the major paradoxes that skilled migrants face is that despite gaining entry into a host country based on their credentials, that doesn’t guarantee success in the local labour market.
Teaching entrepreneurial skills is a staple in business schools. But it can benefit all students – including majors in engineering, agriculture and even the arts.
Enrollment in online courses surged during the pandemic. An expert on online learning behaviors shares what to do before, during and after taking a course in order to reap the most benefits.
To get more workers to be active, public health messaging must recognize the important role employers can play in creating the conditions for workers to focus on exercise.
The right to disconnect can be the catalyst an organization needs to review its workplace policies. But what’s really needed is a cultural shift that gives workers more control over how they work.
A record share of workers quit their jobs in September. A human resources scholar explains how this is a trend that predates the pandemic.
October’s employment report was rosy, with more than 500,000 jobs added in the month. There were also signs that the American workforce was heading back to the old normal.
While the government continues to focus on building wider roads, most commuters in Nairobi rely on walking or public transport.
One million Australians quit their jobs in the past year, but there’s nothing new in that, and its down on previous years.
The question is actually one of the most studied in all of economics and still doesn’t have a definitive answer – though Nobel-winning economist David Card got us closer.
Job creation might well have slowed, but a deeper dive into employment data suggests the picture is actually pretty rosy.
Several groups are going to be disproportionately affected when the £70 billion scheme comes to an end.
Three pandemic-related unemployment benefit programs expire on Labor Day, putting millions of mostly low-income families in financial jeopardy.
Youth unemployment in Nigeria is a skills mismatch problem – corporations can’t find suitable workers in the midst of a large pool of unemployed workers.
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Professor Emeritus, Griffith Business School, Griffith University
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Professor of Economics, University of Canberra
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Professor of Management, Co-Director of the MIT Sloan Institute for Work and Employment Research, MIT Sloan School of Management
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Professor of Economics, The University of Melbourne
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Professor, Griffith Business School, Griffith University
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Professor of Economics, UNSW
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Senior Lecturer, Questrom School of Business, Boston University
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Sir John Bunting Chair of Public Administration, Australian National University
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Senior Lecturer in Applied Ethics & CyberSecurity, Griffith University
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Reader, Australian Catholic University
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Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow, University of Tasmania
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Professor and Director of the Centre for Youth Policy and Education Practice, Monash University
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professsor of Applied Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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Professorial Fellow and Deputy Director (Research), HILDA Survey, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, The University of Melbourne
