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[buzzsprout episode='12230198' player='true'] Key topics: ✔️ ICYMI news, 2/11 - 2/17. ✔️The official narrative is now shaping up. Pandemic ➡️ Unprecedented times. ➡️ Zoom boom & WFH. ➡️ Red hot markets & overhiring. ➡️ Market is now "normalizing." ➡️ Don't worry about it because this is just a...

“Ultimately I think the next phase is ‘loud staying,'” said Sara Causey, owner of Causey Consulting, LLC. “I was alive and well during the Great Recession and whatever you needed to do to keep your job, you did it. If that involved staying late or working...

Remember this from last year: NOBODY SAID THIS WOULD BE FUN!   Now you should just skip food altogether. -https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/cpi-report-today-january-2023-inflation/card/to-save-money-maybe-you-should-skip-breakfast-fSd6mz0miaAPhUFb2jgy So that escalated. Instead of replacing meat with lentils, just skip that meal altogether. I mean, you don't really need that food, do you? I bet the fat cats and...

Image by Ryan McGuire from Pixabay When do terms like "cultural fit" and "hire for personality" become code for "ONE OF US...

Image by ErikaWittlieb from Pixabay   "In 2023, even the most carefully thought-out hybrid work plan can be undercut if bosses get 'too rigid with flexibility.' Ajay Banga, vice chairman at growth equity investor General Atlantic, thinks that’s the obvious snag in the new remote work era. " -https://fortune.com/2023/02/12/hybrid-work-balance-ajay-banga-mastercard/ What? Too rigid...

Image by StockSnap from Pixabay   We know you enjoy WFH but just get back in the cube already, dammit. "Big cities feeling cost of slow RTO By Cate Chapman, Editor at LinkedIn News The in-office workweek still stands at about three days in megacities such as New York, despite mandates to return....

[buzzsprout episode='12212210' player='true'] In a recent video, Russell Brand jokes about robots escorting you back to your dead-end job. And it certainly made me wonder: is the future filled with dead-end jobs? Is that what we all have to look forward to? And what constitutes a dead-end...

https://fortune.com/2023/02/02/bosses-monitoring-workers-productivity-paranoia-backfiring Ya don't say! "As white-collar workers enjoy a bit of distance from the office, some employers have taken to spying on them to make sure work is getting done. Eight of 10 major private employers in the U.S. are tracking productivity, the New York Times revealed...

[buzzsprout episode='12183180' player='true'] Key topics: ✔️ ICYMI news, 2/4 - 2/10. ✔️What's going on with the "spy" balloon? ✔️Are bail-ins on the horizon? ✔️"You don’t have a recession when you have 500,000 jobs and the lowest unemployment rate in more than 50 years." 😂 ✔️Supposedly, hiring is still robust and the...