Jorge Piedra's anniversary commentary is thin on numbers by design. What the visible record shows about how law firm leadership talks about tenure, partnership and rest.
Michael Hayes · September 24, 2026A plain-language guide for new expats: what workplace culture shock is, why it happens, and the habits that help.
Kara Williams · September 23, 2026
Strip out the slogans and the perks, and culture is what people do when nobody is writing it down.
Amara Okonkwo · September 21, 2026
Elite membership clubs sell access, status, and savings. Whether any of that pays back depends on what your company actually needs this year.
Amara Okonkwo · September 20, 2026
Who gets invited, who must show up, and who can safely decline says more about power at work than any org chart.
Kara Williams · September 17, 2026
The unofficial clock on how long people stay in a role now says more about team health than any formal ladder.
Kara Williams · September 13, 2026New payroll data from ADP and the Atlanta Fed shows the raise gap between switching jobs and staying put has nearly closed — and for Gen Z workers, it's already reversing.
Kara Williams · August 13, 2026Forced parties, trivia afternoons, and team-building retreats survived the budget cuts they shouldn't have — and lost the workforce they were for.
Kara Williams · July 23, 2026
UnityPoint Health created an executive director of rural health partnerships. The announcement is real; the proof will take years.
Amara Okonkwo · September 15, 2026
Mandates got people back at desks, but the two most-cited studies of the past three years find no firm-level performance bump — and the collaboration they promised looks different in person than leaders expected.
Michael Hayes · August 28, 2026
A growing list of states now force employers to post a real salary range. The best evidence on what that actually does isn't the story most people expect.
Michael Hayes · August 22, 2026
The post-money SAFE locks an investor's percentage the day it's signed — here's the arithmetic, the option-pool clause, and the filing deadline founders miss.
Tanya Brooks · August 16, 2026Research on entrepreneurial mental health finds founders running elevated depression and anxiety rates. The structural fixes are known, unfashionable, and rarely funded.
Tanya Brooks · July 27, 2026
The monthly payroll print is a sample-based estimate with a forecast bolted on. Here's what the birth-death model does, when the benchmark fixes it, and how big a normal correction looks.
Lena Fischer · August 15, 2026Households spent down pandemic savings and borrowed to keep pace. The uncomfortable question is what happens when the buffer runs out.
Lena Fischer · August 10, 2026Trillion-dollar industrial and infrastructure programs are colliding with a craft-labor supply two decades in the making — and wages tell the story faster than the payroll data.
Lena Fischer · July 18, 2026
A federal court blocked the FTC's nationwide noncompete rule in 2024, and the agency formally erased it in February 2026 — so whether your contract can lock you out of your next job still depends on where you work, not on Washington.
Amara Okonkwo · August 10, 2026Thousands of private investment offices, built to manage founders' exits, now seed the next generation — with longer horizons and stranger terms than any fund.
Amara Okonkwo · August 5, 2026