Practice and client management

Employers are experimenting with internal job fairs, a new definition of flexibility and more in our top stories from this week.

Stale offerings that no one actually uses won’t move the needle on talent management, but earmarking an allowance for expanded options will spark interest and manage costs.

Executives with a business degree are more likely to oversee declining pay at the businesses they run, yet tend not to deliver an increase in profits or sales.

Over half of remote workers use a personal device to access work data, leading to an uptick in cyber attacks.

More than half of workers agreed that they would invest in greener funds if their employer offered them.

Companies that adopt the rule pledge to add at least one candidate to their interview slate to increase gender and racial diversity.

Female employees are twice as likely than men to call their workplace unsustainable — and it’ll cost employers.

Advisers who are ready to get serious about their prospecting and marketing efforts are probably ready to consider a separate system to help manage those activities.

The pandemic negatively impacted tobacco usage for almost half of employees, prompting 96% of them to smoke while on the job.

Compensation of the top CEOs has increased 1,322.2% between 1978 to 2020.

Landing a prospective customer is a lot like dating. Remember that patience in growing relationships is the key to lasting success.

Of candidates hired into senior roles following a more skills-based interview, more than half were women.

As return-to-office plans accelerate — with hopes they will stick this time — many bosses are embracing new setups and perks meant to evoke the comforts of home.

Despite half of hiring managers believing that career breaks are becoming more common, one in five would decline an applicant if they had an extended gap on their resume.

Employees are giving millions of dollars of unused time off back to their employers.

To sustain growth and retain talent, employers need to rethink their DEI initiatives to incorporate employee resource groups, skills training and more.

Two recent studies point to the long-lasting impact of work from home.

Returning to the classroom didn’t solve any of the educator's problems. It introduced new ones.

The number of workers currently involved with a colleague is six percentage points higher than before COVID.

The firm is planning to bring employees back to the office in mid-March, after plans were repeatedly upended last year due to COVID surges.