Culture
Job hopping stopped paying — the 2026 data shows why
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
Culture
Company culture reported through people rather than value statements. Articles look at the unwritten rules of an organization, how status is distributed inside teams, which behaviors get rewarded without being named, and how culture shifts after growth, layoffs or a change of ownership. For anyone responsible for a team.
Profiles of how organizations really behave: unwritten rules, status inside teams, what gets rewarded quietly and what gets punished in meetings.
Culture
Mandatory fun finally met its match: everyone's calendar
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
Culture
Employee recognition programs work — when they're slightly embarrassing not to have
The research on recognition is clearer than the tooling industry admits: frequency and specificity beat platforms and points, every time.
Kara Williams
Culture
Onboarding quietly became the highest-ROI culture project
Remote-era hires who never got a real first month churned at record rates. The companies that fixed it built rituals, not orientations.
Kara Williams
Culture
The lunch break quietly disappeared while nobody was counting
Desk lunches became the default and the data says it costs more in afternoon output than it saves in time.
Amara Okonkwo