Go beyond party lines with Justin T Weller and his counterparts as they work to bring you responsible media that focuses on honest opinions. The State of Us, formerly the Current Issues Show, examines the concepts that Americans are most passionate about and sheds light on those issues yet to be addressed.
TSOU Episode: Do Workers Need to Return to the Workplace? Some Say No
To understand how organizations are continuing to react to the pandemic and the changing business environment in the context of their workplaces and workforces, The Conference Board conducted an online survey of human capital leaders between April 5 and April 16, 2021, the third such survey in the past year.
Read MoreTSOU Episode: Do Workers Need to Return to the Workplace? Some Say No
More and more offices plan to reopen their doors in the coming months, but will their workers show up? Amid higher productivity, 43 percent question the wisdom of returning to the workplace at all. The new survey by The Conference Board reveals a notable shift in employees’ greatest return-to-work concerns.
Read MoreTSOU Episode: Can You Return to the Workplace in 2020?
The Conference Board survey also reveals that some groups feel more pressure to return than others. To keep their jobs, women feel more pressure to return to the workplace than men. It is an expectation also more greatly felt among more lower-ranking employees: 20 percent of individual contributors feel such pressure, compared to just 4 percent of C-suite executives.
Read MoreTSOU Episode: Back to School in the Age of COVID
Read MoreTSOU Episode: Is There Intelligent Life Beyond Earth?
Read MoreWith about 25 trillion in official national debt and record-setting stimulus packages, it is essential that we examine the true value of these initiatives.
Read MoreThe workforce is more diverse in age and race. At the same time, there is a larger share of less educated workers and productivity is not where many economists expected it to be. Justin and Lance along with Frank Steemers, an economist at the Conference Board, discuss what this tight labor market means for the decade ahead.
Read MoreTSOU Episode: Dangers of the Current Labor Market
Would it surprise you to learn that wage growth is not meeting most economists' expectations? What about if we told you that countless new hires are making as much and, in some cases, possibly more than seasoned veterans? Frank Steemers, an economist from The Conference Board…
Read MoreTSOU Episode: Workers Want Companies to Tackle Social Issues
About 90% of workers say that they feel it is at least moderately important that their organization is involved in social change according to a recent report from The Conference Board. Justin and Lance are joined by Dr. Robin Erickson and Amanda Popiela, the two authors of the report.
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