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
New 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, 2026
Forced 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, 2026The research on recognition is clearer than the tooling industry admits: frequency and specificity beat platforms and points, every time.
Kara Williams · June 30, 2026Remote-era hires who never got a real first month churned at record rates. The companies that fixed it built rituals, not orientations.
Kara Williams · June 7, 2026
Companies stopped arguing about days in office and started assigning them by role, team, and level. The new fights are about who lands in which tier.
Michael Hayes · January 8, 2026
Desk assignment became the hybrid era's status system — and its disputes landed in HR with the seniority of the complainants attached.
Michael Hayes · August 1, 2026
Programs hiring career-break veterans and caregivers converted an overlooked talent pool into a retention advantage — where companies ran them seriously.
Michael Hayes · July 9, 2026
Use-it-or-lose-it policies died in a growing list of states, and the cash-out rules that replaced them turned PTO into a balance-sheet item.
Michael Hayes · June 16, 2026
Productivity scores, keystroke analysis, and always-on badges spread through the mid-2020s — and the rules governing them are a patchwork of old statutes written for punch clocks.
Amara Okonkwo · May 25, 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