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 consultant specializing in total compensation and communication.

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, the future is theirs.

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.