Workplace
Returnships became the labor market's smartest arbitrage
Programs hiring career-break veterans and caregivers converted an overlooked talent pool into a retention advantage — where companies ran them seriously.
Michael Hayes
Workplace
Workplace covers the terms of employment as they are actually set: working hours, hybrid and remote arrangements, compensation bands, promotion criteria and office design. Reporting follows specific employers through specific changes, including what the change cost and whether staff stayed. Written for managers and employees on either side of the table.
The terms of the job itself: schedules, hybrid arrangements, compensation structures, office design and the negotiations that set them.
Workplace
Your unused vacation might be wages now — depending on your state
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
Workplace
AI employee monitoring grew faster than any law covering it
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
Workplace
Caregiver benefits became the quiet retention weapon
With the population aging faster than the workforce, employers discovered that child care was only half the story — elder care is the bigger one.
Michael Hayes
Workplace
Ghost jobs finally met enforcement — and a tighter definition
States and platforms started policing postings for jobs that were never open. The crime is narrower than jobseekers think, and the evidence problem is real.
Michael Hayes