How to Talk About Performance… Without Hurting Employee Sensitivities

Talking about performance at work is never easy. Especially when an employer decides to reward it with salary increases or one-time bonuses. It delights the recipients while risking alienating those who are left out. We explored this sensitive topic with Sarah Jodoin-Houle, CRHA, an HR…

“Brain Fry”: The Hidden Downside of the AI Revolution at Work

AI has barely begun to make its way into the workplace, and it's already raising concerns among employees who point to the cognitive fatigue it causes. A symptom dubbed "brain fry" by a new article in Harvard Business Review. Here's what's going on.

How Do We Fight AI Functional Dependency?

How can we use AI in a more conscious, healthy, and safe way? That's the subject of a new talk by digital wellness specialist Laurie Michel. An interview on the new cognitive challenges tied to the rise of AI.

3 Unconventional Ideas for Getting Employees Back to the Office

Employers continue to rack their brains trying to coax employees back to the office, while workers have grown comfortable at home and are reluctant to leave. Here are three examples of companies that have chosen to think outside the box to tackle the problem.

Does the Future Belong to the Neurodivergent?

In its most alarming version, analysts predict that AI will render entire swaths of white-collar workers unemployed. In a recent address, Alex Karp, CEO of Palantir Technologies, sees a glimmer of hope for one very specific category of knowledge workers: neurodivergent people. According to him,…

Four-Day Week: Iceland Stays the Course!

In this era of back-to-basics and employee performance measurement, Iceland continues to go its own way, maintaining its four-day workweek policy for all. Let's look at what such a policy has produced, five years after its implementation.

Does AI Reduce Work… or Increase Pressure?

This is the paradox of productivity gains with AI. According to a study conducted by two researchers and published in the columns of the Harvard Business Review, the adoption of generative AI leads less to a reduction in employee workload than to an intensification of…

Why Are Recruitment Processes Becoming Increasingly sanitized?

For the past decade, career coach Matthieu Degenève has noticed that hiring processes have become very (too?) sanitized. Recruiters no longer dare ask tough questions to candidates, for fear of hurting them or making them uncomfortable. According to him, the burden of authenticity now falls…

Sustainable Transformation: A Fundamentally… HR Challenge!

For Sophie Morfaux and Manon Simard, there is no doubt: the issue of sustainable development is directly linked to the HR function. The two organizational development specialists want to convince HR professionals to take an active part in the sustainable transformation taking place in companies.

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