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Why money alone can’t buy happiness at work
While higher salaries are often equated with job satisfaction, recent studies challenge this notion. Despite earning less, self-...
Going viral as an employer – for all the wrong reasons
Explore the real implications of your company going viral. Understand why fostering a stable, legally compliant business may pro...
How inclusive is your return-to-office strategy?
Returning to office? Your strategy may impact different employees in different ways. Learn from Workable's Content Strategy Mana...
What does the future of work look like?
This is part one of a series of blog posts pulled from our extensive New World of Work 2022 Survey Report. Here, we provide a qu...
The Weird Al leadership playbook: Lessons for Elon Musk
Who could be more different than Elon Musk and “Weird Al” Yankovic? Yet both are in the news, Yankovic because of his new parody...
Workplace horror stories we wish were not real
When we were kids, we used to share scary stories with our friends. And, more often than not, we would exaggerate a little bit (...
Implementing an alternating four-day workweek: how & why
When the pandemic hit, we at Service Direct, like countless other businesses around the world, quickly found ourselves trying to...
INFOGRAPHIC: Mental Health across the ages
Mental health isn’t just a hot topic now – it has always been an issue. Our survey found that nine out of 10 respondents have ex...
Call it what it is: ‘Fawning’ – and have the courage to intervene
Here, Dr. Robyne Hanley-Defoe discusses the fourth of the four stress responses – fawning – and talks about ways in which you ca...
Toxic culture in SMBs: 6 ways to address it
The HR community is abuzz with recent research from MIT Sloan Management Review. According to this research, which performed a m...
Workplace community is more important than most in US
Face it – we spend significant chunks of our waking hours at work, whether it’s virtual or “real life” presence in the working e...
Workplace community is tops in the minds of UK workers
Since we spend significant chunks of our waking hours at work, it make sense that friendships, partnerships and teamsmanship sho...