Gone are the days when once hired, an employee would stay with the company for at least half his or her career. Contrary to patiently climbing the corporate ‘ladder’ of hierarchy, younger employees now want a job that is challenging and motivating.

The annual employee engagement survey stands to face a vote of no confidence. Unloved by everyone who completes it, and unable to improve stubbornly low rates of engagement, it sticks out like a sore thumb when we use real-time data as the basis of our decisions in finance, marketing, product development and more.

American healthcare company, Aetna, recently caught the imagination of the press and business leaders looking for innovative ways to improve employee welfare and boost productivity.

Stay up to date on the latest advice and trends in management, with the Peakon roundup of the week’s most useful content.

Stay up to date on the latest advice and trends in management, with the Peakon roundup of the week’s most useful content.

Stay up to date on the latest advice and trends in management, with the Peakon roundup of the week’s most useful content.

Is anyone really happy with the name Human Resources? After years of weird and wonderful suggestions as alternatives, does Employee Experience finally fit the bill, and better describe the department’s expanded role.

How employees judge whether they’re fairly paid is actually a broader topic than most would immediately assume, or would probably allude to when talking about their own pay. Organisational Justice Theory gives us an explanation, with the three principles that fair pay adheres to.

Despite what Yahoo might have you believe, more companies are steering towards remote employment as a growing number of us value flexibility.

The need for growth features prominently in almost every theory on motivation and engagement. Yet, research from Monika Hamori, Jie Cao and Burak Koyuncu into the career priorities of young high-achievers, illustrates a serious gap between their career development expectations, and those of their employers.

Freedom of speech is well understood to be a core part of any democratic society. But at work, it can often be a different story. We investigate the false dichotomy of upward dissent vs. efficiency.

What a small convenience store can teach us about the scale of our startup ambitions, and why building an open platform benefits everyone.