Busy-Bites
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From HBR: “The Case for the 6-Hour Workday”
The eight-hour workday harkens back to 19-century socialism. When there was no upper limit to the hours that organizations could demand of factory workers, American labor unions fought hard to […]
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“How Fidelity changed its Dublin office for flexible working”
We here at The Busyness Paradox have been consistently making this recommendation throughout our podcasts. Glad to see there are large companies striving to make this happen. “Employers need to […]
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Frank Awarded for his work with the Veterans Entrepreneurship Program!
Congrats to Frank for winning the University of Tennessee President's Award for his work with the Veterans Entrepreneurship Program!
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Leaked Applebee’s Email…
Basically, Appleby’s management believes that workers need to work more to buy gas… they should go out of business. “The email has generated a mass online backlash after stating that […]
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The Importance of Culture: As Seen on Reddit
This is why you need to hire Golden Calf Consulting. We put the ‘cult’ in culture. Source: Reddit
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5-day work week is dead, what does that mean for the cities?
This article is excellent. The Atlantic has some really good quality journalists. With the decline of people going to work 5 days per week and opting for more hybrid work […]
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Is it Time for Federal Paid Sick Leave?
This study says it is time: Variation in paid sick-leave state laws, local laws, and preemptive laws create and exacerbate inequities given the lack of universal coverage by employers.— Read […]
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Wages are falling due to inflation
There’s a beautiful chart that a Reddit user developed that shows how inflation has exceeded wage growth. Essentially, even though wage growth is still occurring, inflation is nullifying that growth, […]
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The influence of pay transparency on (gender) inequity, inequality and the performance basis of pay | Nature Human Behaviour
In a recent article over at Nature, the authors find the following: We find evidence that pay transparency causes significant increases in both the equity and equality of pay, and […]
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California ports, key to U.S. supply chain, among world’s least efficient, ranking shows | Reuters
This ties in with our episode on inflation. Southern California’s Los Angeles and Long Beach ports handle the most ocean cargo of any ports in the United States, but are […]