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Nature Human Behaviour - Merging data on over 45 million US workers, Frake et al. find substantial workplace political segregation. Political segregation is comparable in magnitude to gender...

Before you can determine whether someone fits your workplace culture, you must first be able to clearly define it.

“I deleted it as a test and it came immediately back,” says one government employee.

In this week’s The Insider newsletter, managing editor Gretchen Gavett writes on new research from IMD’s Alyson Meister, Nele Dael, and David Bach that distinguishes hope from optimism and maps four varieties of this powerful tool—some of which are more effective than others. Gavett also rounds up new pieces on AI, from how to prevent knowledge decay to managing AI agents like team members.

It’s a special “where are you now?” season at Ask a Manager and I’m running updates from people who had their letters here answered in the past. There will be more posts than usual this week, so keep checking back throughout the day. Remember the letter-writer whose company’s highly-paid, overworked junior staff keep leaving just […] The post update: our highly-paid, overworked junior staff keep leaving just as we get them fully trained appeared first on Ask a Manager .

Keywords are important but job hunters overlook one critical fact. Today's employers aren't simply searching for keywords.

With AI automating routine tasks, employees face heightened expectations for faster, higher-quality output.

DALLAS, June 23, 2026--Hallmark Health Care Solutions (Hallmark) today unveiled healthcare’s first Workforce Operating System, a new, AI-enabled platform that helps health systems and physician groups to manage their largest expense and greatest asset: their workforce. This missing layer in the healthcare tech stack is built on Hallmark’s years of experience helping health systems and large medical groups nationwide through a unique combination of technology, data, and workforce expertise.

The company said it had shuttered a Maryland location because of “declining conditions” in a surrounding mall. The union accuses Apple of retaliation.

Sean M. O’Brien, re-elected to a second term leading the union, has used a relationship with President Trump to end court-ordered corruption monitoring.

Many employees experience finance-related stress, but don’t know where to turn. Managers can be the bridge to available financial wellness initiatives.

A reader writes: I am an admin for a charity that relies on small-dollar donations to fund our work. My manager is the executive director. She is genuinely fun, hard-working, and an industry rockstar, and also openly has ADHD. She also repeatedly costs us money by doing things at the last minute. On multiple occasions, […] The post my boss’s ADHD wastes our charity’s money appeared first on Ask a Manager .

The Great Human Premium gives us the mandate to stop trying to be better machines and start becoming better humans.

At SHRM26, SHRM President and Chief Executive Officer Johnny C. Taylor, Jr., SHRM-SCP, urged HR professionals to connect people strategy to business performance.

Learn the antidote to "doomjobbing"— the career equivalent of doomscrolling which hijacks your attention—to prevent doomjobbing from sabotaging your career.

California state workers oppose return-to-office mandate as July deadline approaches ABC10

It’s a special “where are you now?” season at Ask a Manager and I’m running updates from people who had their letters here answered in the past. There will be more posts than usual this week, so keep checking back throughout the day. Remember the letter-writer whose coworker wrote a sonnet about their absences, when […] The post update: my coworker wrote a sonnet about my absences appeared first on Ask a Manager .

It’s a special “where are you now?” season at Ask a Manager and I’m running updates from people who had their letters here answered in the past. There will be more posts than usual this week, so keep checking back throughout the day. Remember the letter-writer with family who survived the Holocaust who was thinking […] The post update: can I ask my company to paint over an Anne Frank mural? appeared first on Ask a Manager .

It’s a special “where are you now?” season at Ask a Manager and I’m running updates from people who had their letters here answered in the past. There will be more posts than usual this week, so keep checking back throughout the day. Remember the letter-writer asking how to say, “Sorry, but I really have […] The post update: how to say “sorry, but I really have to pee, again” in a professional way appeared first on Ask a Manager .