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Tackling the Taboo: Navigating Career Gaps During the Pandemic

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In recent years, there has been a trend of many workers quitting their jobs, driving companies to announce waves of job cuts into the new year. As a result, workers leaving their positions are left with CV gaps. These gaps are now generally met with open curiosity rather than an assumption of a person’s poor performance or reliability. In the past three years, the labor market has seen an abundance of workers transition in many ways.

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29 Growth Mindset Quotes to Inspire You in 2023

Success

Growth mindset quotes span history. You can find evidence of what we now call a growth mindset in the words of great leaders, philosophers and spiritual leaders even in ancient times. Consider the Chinese proverb: “A man grows most tired while standing still.” Or text from the Book of Romans in the Bible: “Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.

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5 Brain-Boosting Snacks To Power Your Work Day

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According to the Harvard School of Public Health , snacking often leads to making poorer food choices, such as potato chips, candy, and cookies, causing unwanted weight gain from excess calories. Nevertheless, snacking throughout the workday can be profoundly beneficial to workers because it provides energy, curbs their appetite, and maintains their nutrition levels if their schedule doesn’t permit eating full meals at set times.

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7 Obstacles That Stop Women From Starting a Home Business – How to Overcome Them

Tips From T. Marie

Are you a woman thinking about starting a home business? You’re not alone: many women are taking their careers into their own hands and blazing a path to financial freedom and career satisfaction. However, there can be plenty of roadblocks on the path to success. In this blog post, we’ll look at the seven obstacles that stop women from starting their home businesses – and how to overcome them. 1.

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The Memory Edge: Outlearn, Outperform, Outlast

Speaker: Chester Santos

Forgetfulness is costing you time, money, and a ton of missed opportunities. In the age of automation, it’s easy to underestimate the power of a well-trained human mind. But memory isn’t just a parlor trick, it's a strategic edge. Human memory is one of the most underrated business skills. Whether you’re managing people, leading sessions, or having high-stakes conversations, remembering names, details, and concepts can be transformative in building trust, absorbing knowledge, and driving perform

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PayPal CEO Addresses Mass Layoffs Due to “Challenging Macro-Economic Environment”

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PayPal is cutting 7% of its staff , or 2,000 jobs in response to the “challenging macro-economic environment,” according to CEO Dan Schulman. “I want to express my personal appreciation for the meaningful contributions they have made to PayPal,” said Schulman Layoffs will occur over the next several weeks and see departing employees receive “generous” severance packages.

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Living in the Grey Zone with Mary Lawless Lee

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Mary Lawless Lee started Happily Grey, her fashion and lifestyle blog, while working as a critical care nurse. As the blog grew and attracted a large fan base, Lee transitioned to working in digital media full time. Growing up in a tiny rural town, Lee thought a woman had to check certain boxes before she was 30: get married, get a house and have a baby.

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How Black queer culture shaped history | Channing Gerard Joseph

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Names like Bayard Rustin, Frances Thompson and William Dorsey Swann have been largely erased from US history, but they and other Black queer leaders played central roles in monumental movements like emancipation, civil rights and LGBTQ+ pride, among others. In this tribute to forgotten icons, queer culture historian and TED Fellow Channing Gerard Joseph shares their little-known stories, connecting the origins of drag in the 1880s to the present day and exploring the awesome power to choose how

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U.S. Labor Cost Growth Slows, Consumer Confidence Dips in Latest Quarter

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In the fourth quarter, U.S. labor costs rose at their slowest rate in a year — a welcome respite for the Federal Reserve in its battle against inflation. On Wednesday, the Fed is forecasted to raise its policy rate by 25 basis points, further restraining the speed of its rate hikes. “The Fed’s rate hikes in 2022 were successful at cooling an overheated economy,” said Bill Adams, chief economist at Comerica Bank. “But policymakers want to see a wider margin of slack open

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Episode 460: Paul Millerd talks about The Pathless Path

Productivityist

I’m really excited to have this conversation with Paul Millerd because I had the chance to meet him back in June of 2022 at the World Domination Summit. We had a fantastic time connecting and discussing our shared interests in productivity and our modern relationship with work. Paul is an independent writer, creator, and sometimes freelancer, and he writes about these topics in a way that I find truly inspiring.

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Federal Labor Board Rules Apple’s Secrecy Restricts Workers’ Rights

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Apple employees have been fighting back against the company’s restrictive work policies for years, but their efforts may have finally paid off. The National Labor Relations Board has determined that Apple’s rules limiting employee communication and collective bargaining interfere with workers’ rights, and if the parties can’t resolve the issue, a formal complaint will be filed against Apple.

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Automation, Evolved: Your New Playbook for Smarter Knowledge Work

Speaker: Frank Taliano

Documents are the backbone of enterprise operations, but they are also a common source of inefficiency. From buried insights to manual handoffs, document-based workflows can quietly stall decision-making and drain resources. For large, complex organizations, legacy systems and siloed processes create friction that AI is uniquely positioned to resolve.

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Intel Execs Take a Pay Cut: CEO Gelsinger to Reduce Base Pay by 25%

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Just days after Intel reported a dismal fourth-quarter financial performance, executives announced they would be taking pay cuts , while lower-level employees would see tens of millions of dollars in benefits reductions. CEO Pat Gelsinger and mid-level managers will be impacted, with Gelsinger seeing his base salary slashed by a quarter, or roughly $312,000 of his $1.25 million base pay.

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Government Environmental Improvement Plan is ambitious but needs a clear plan

Workplace Insight

The UKGBC has welcomed the ambition and vision of the Government’s Environmental Improvement Plan, particularly the water efficiency roadmap which broadly aligns with UKGBC recommendations. Yet the lobbying group also claims that the Plan falls short of providing the practical targets and policies for the built environment to play its part in halting nature’s decline.

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The Hidden Skills That Separate Good Leaders from Great Ones

Speaker: Chandra McCormack, CPA, MBA, NACD.DC

Technical degrees might open doors—but it’s the soft skills that keep them open. In the face of disruption, evolving workplace dynamics, and rising expectations of leadership, soft skills like communication, emotional intelligence, and presence have become core business essentials—not nice-to-haves. Inspired by stories from her father coupled with her own career journey, seasoned executive Chandra McCormack breaks down how to lead with impact, connect with purpose, and cultivate a workplace cult

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New legally-binding air quality targets fall short of their ambitions, safety body warns

Workplace Insight

The British Safety Council has warned that new legally binding air quality targets for the UK, which passed the final stages of parliamentary scrutiny earlier this week, fall well short of what is needed to keep people safe. The new limits will come into force in the wake of last year’s Environment Act, after the Government missed its own deadline of December to introduce them, following a consultation.

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Do you walk or talk people centric change for success?

Workplace Insight

In previous articles , I shared that there is a McKinsey report that states that 75 percent of the organisations that were listed at the time on the S&P would no longer exist by 2025 – they would either merge, be bought out or go bankrupt. This all means that organisations have to change and adapt or die. That is now less than 2 years away, so some organisations are now gone, some are struggling and some have adapted.