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Workspan Daily
12/11/2025
Only 1 in 5 provide effective coaching and feedback to the employees working under them, according to recent research from consulting firm WTW — with significant challenges in individual goal-setting and helping keep goals on track and relevant year-round.
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Workspan Daily
12/11/2024
According to the survey:
;81% of employees who feel highly appreciated report elevated job satisfaction, compared to just 7% among those who feel unappreciated or neutral.;
;94% of employees who feel highly appreciated love their workplace, and 91% love their job.
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Workspan Daily
04/28/2026
At the federal level,
Section 7 of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) safeguards “protected concerted activity” for private-sector employees — whether they are in a union or not — including communication about their working conditions, pay, benefits and collective bargaining.
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Journal Article
01/01/2022
Glazer, R. 2019. “5 Lessons Herb Kelleher of Southwest Airlines Taught Me About Life and Leadership,” Jan. 8.
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Journal Article
12/04/2023
Best Practice No. 5: Purpose as a Priority In 1970, economist Milton Friedman wrote that the ultimate purpose of business was to maximize shareholder profits, and that using corporate resources for social causes was effectively stealing from shareholders ( M.
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Journal Article
11/14/2024
Academic studies suggest that the minimal motivating salary bump — when a pay raise is meaningful to an employee — has a threshold of at least 7%-7.5%, far beyond the typical merit increases ( Mitra, Gupta, and Jenkins 1997).
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Workspan Daily
11/06/2025
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Private Sector Added 42,000 Jobs in October; Pay Is Up 4.5%
American private-sector employment increased by 42,000 jobs in October and pay was up 4.5% year-over-year, according to a report released Wednesday, Nov. 5 , by ADP Research in collaboration with the Stanford Digital Economy Lab.The ADP National Employment Report is an independent measure of the labor market based on the anonymized weekly payroll data of more than 26 million private-sector employees.
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Workspan Magazine
04/08/2026
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The Motivation Movement Too often, organizations treat compensation as the primary lever for motivation.
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Workspan Magazine
02/05/2025
Last fall, a Pew Research Center pulse
report on housing affordability noted that nearly 7 in 10 Americans (69%) were “very concerned” about the cost of housing, up from 61% in April 2023.
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Workspan Magazine
05/15/2023
In the meantime, the percentage of new hires coming from inbound applications has increased by more than 7%.
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