The Great Resignation of 2021 has continued into 2022, with quit rates reaching levels last seen in the 1970s. Although not all workers who leave a job are working in another job the next month, the majority of those switching employers are seeing it pay off in higher

A recent Gartner survey of 3,515 employees revealed 65 percent of women report the pandemic has made them rethink the place that work should have in their lives. Nearly 70 percent of women with children agree the pandemic has changed how they value certain aspects of their life outside

March 29,2022. According to FlexJobs’ Work Insight 2022 Survey* with over 1,200 people currently employed, remote work is considered the second most important element to compensation and benefit packages, ranked only behind salary. In fact, remote work has become such a priority among today’s workers that 57 percent say

March 22, 2022. After two years of uncertainty, many companies are eager to call employees back to the office for good, new research from talent solutions and business consulting firm Robert Half shows. In a survey of more than 2,300 senior managers in the U.S., two-thirds of respondents

Global climate change is a fact and has been scientifically proven. It will have existentially threatening effects in social, economic, and ecological terms on the generations that come after us. Those who deny this need not read further at this point. For all others, this white paper shows

The Act on Corporate Due Diligence in Supply Chains is a federal law that was passed by the Bundestag on June 11, 2021 and published in the Federal Law Gazette on July 22, 2021. It is part of the Civil Code as well as the Commercial Code and

Deloitte’s 2022 CxO Sustainability Report: The Disconnect Between Ambition and Impact, reveals that global C-level business leaders (or CxOs) are increasingly concerned about climate change and see the world at a tipping point to act. Eighty-nine percent of CxOs agree there’s a climate crisis and 63 percent say

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (“USCIS”) has announced that the H-1B electronic registration period for Fiscal Year 2023 will be open from March 1 through March 18, 2022. During this period, prospective petitioners and their representatives will be able to submit their registrations for potential H-1B candidates. Employers should take this opportunity

By Jim DeLoach, January 11, 2022 Protiviti’s latest global survey reveals that COVID-19, people and culture issues, the economy, and digital transformation are top of mind for C-level executives and directors looking at the risk landscape for 2022. Our survey captures insights from 1,453 C-level executives and directors related to 36

Over the past two years, Deloitte professionals have come together for our clients, communities, and each other to face the substantial challenges of the global pandemic. We continue to be deeply grateful and committed to helping our people thrive as we experience significant growth in our business and

The Conference Board’s Salary Increase Budget Survey indicates that the average annual raise for current employees is accelerating. In 2022, salary increase budgets are estimated to be 3.9% – the highest rate since 2008. Due to the high wage growth and inflation seen since April 2021, our Salary

Experts agree that we’re experiencing unprecedented times in the global labor market. While a few of the buzziest phrases of this phase include the Great Resignation, the Great Realization and the Great Reshuffle, there are many more “Greats” where those came from, according to a new report from Business

The Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) is soliciting comment on more than a dozen possible updates to its benchmark voting policies for the 2022 proxy season. As it does each fall, ISS has published a preview of 16 proposed voting policy changes for 2022 across several regional and market

COVID On November 4, 2021 OSHA, Department of Labor released COVID-19 Vaccination and Testing; Emergency Temporary Standard (https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2021-23643.pdf). It is an Interim Final Rule taking effect on January 4, 2022 as an emergency temporary standard (ETS) to protect unvaccinated employees of large private employers (100 or more employees)

Amazon is once again shifting its approach to remote work, giving its employees more control over how much time they spend in the office and paving the way for more corporate staffers to continue working from home. The company will now permit individual teams to decide which policy

There is a new compact between employee and employer which requires business to take a more ambitious role in society, while fundamentally reconsidering the motives of the worker. The 2021 Edelman Trust Barometer Special Report: The Belief-Driven Employee, conducted in early August in seven countries, finds that the Covid-19

An analysis by Michael Papadopoulos, Associate Economist at The Conference Board The rapid rise in job openings to historic highs coupled with increasingly more workers quitting is leading to severe labor shortages, especially in leisure & hospitality, food service, and construction. With the economy rapidly reopening across the

  What This Could Mean for You The new rules aim to provide widely available, consistent and comparable information that will contribute to investors’ investment and voting decisions. Under Nasdaq’s Rule, diversity is defined as one self-identified female director and one self-identified Underrepresented Minority or LGBTQ+ director. Most

New research from The Conference Board reveals that strong wage pressures recently seen in the United States are not being observed in many other economies. According to the Wage Pressure Index, a new metric developed by researchers at The Conference Board, wage pressures vary widely around the world.

As the global economy emerges from the worst of the pandemic, strong growth returns, accompanied by inflation. Led by the United States and China, the world economy has resumed growth trajectories last seen in 2019. The OECD leading indicators point to growth above long-term averages in the United States

When the coronavirus pandemic erupted, companies had to change. Many business-as-usual approaches to serving customers, working with suppliers, and collaborating with colleagues—or just getting anything done—would have failed. They had to increase the speed of decision making, while improving productivity, using technology and data in new ways, and accelerating

Aligned Growth Partners expands its consulting resources to Japan with Goichi which is in Ushiku city, Ibaraki prefecture. June 28, 2021, Singapore. A new alliance partnership has been formed between Aligned Growth Partners and GOICHI Consult Company with the purpose of leveraging on each other strengths and geographical