Valentine’s Day is all about celebrating love — which is the foundation of family.  If you work in a small business with your family, you know how wonderful it can be. You share ideas and memories. Depending on your industry, you may also experience some interesting stuff together. However, this dynamic can also have a…

By Marq Burnett – Associate Editor, The Playbook, The Business Journals Jul 1, 2024 Updated Jul 2, 2024 2:08am EDT As the hybrid era ramped up after the pandemic, experts warned that proximity bias would be difficult to avoid. Now that employers are in the midst of their hybrid models — and some are even…

Jan. 30, 2024 (Oakland, Calif.) – What experiences predict whether your employees are going to quit or stay? New data from Great Place To Work® reveals three experiences that are highly correlated with employees wanting to stay with their company long-term. In a survey of more than 1.3 million U.S. employees, workers were: These three experiences…

Fulton Cure is a quality control manager at Jordan Foster Construction’s Dallas, Texas, office. Opinions are the author’s own. I have a few theories about why we are having such a difficult time acquiring, and retaining, labor in the trades.  The labor market is skewed heavily in the face of a turning point that we…

Data from high-paying jobs board Ladders, which focuses on jobs that earn more than $100,000 a year, found between the third and fourth quarters of 2023, the total number of highly paid remote job postings fell by about 12%. Highly paid hybrid jobs also dropped 69% during the same time while in-person jobs increased 93%….

Workers who get promoted are more likely to leave the company than those who did not — but luckily for managers, there’s a fix for that. The findings, from a new Today at Work report by payroll provider ADP, stem from data on 25 million workers and a decade of structured surveys. The results paint…

Employees don’t just quit bad bosses — they also quit bad companies. That’s one of the big takeaways from Payscale Inc.’s first Retention Report, which analyzed crowdsourced data from thousands of workers across five years. It showed workers are more likely to leave jobs at companies with poor future prospects and for better or fairer pay. The…

For the fourth time in a row, Upper St. Clair School District is No. 1 on the Business Times’ Honor Roll ranking of regional school districts, part of the 2023 Guide to Southwestern Pennsylvania Schools. The ranking looks at three years of state standardized test scores and ranks 105 regional school districts from highest scoring…

The turnover tsunami may have eased over the past year, but employers still need to be vigilant when it comes to competitors poaching their talent. That’s according to the 2023 Trends Report from Quantum Workplace, which partners with The Business Journals on Best Places to Work programs around the nation.  Based on surveys with thousands of workers, Quantum found…

The Great Resignation, quiet quitting and labor hoarding are among workplace trends ignited by a perceived lack of care by employees, according to MetLife’s “US Employee Benefit Trends” survey released today. Nearly half of the employees surveyed, 42%, said they do not feel cared for by their employers. “Our research shows care is not only…