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March 11, 2025
The other T word: Part II
In my last Main Street Macro exploring the state of labor market turnover, I argued that a healthy job market requires a healthy level of churn. Employers need to have the ability to attract talented and skilled people with strong pay and better career prospects, and they need to be able to replace departing employees. But how much turnover is too much? How much is enough?
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March 11, 2025
Workplace Monitoring
Those keystroke trackers and mouse monitors that keep tabs on employee activity might be backfiring. When ADP Research asked nearly 38,000 workers in 34 markets about being watched at work, nearly a third said that their employers constantly watched them on the job. And the group that felt watched also reported being less productive and more stressed on the job.
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March 6, 2025
Pay Equity
In 2024, 27 percent of workers felt that their pay wasn’t fair, down from 31 percent in 2023. Despite this improvement, 28 percent of women felt their pay wasn’t fair in 2024, compared to 23 percent of men. Age, managerial level, industry, and type of work also figured into how workers feel about their pay.
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February 24, 2025
Artificial Intelligence
The transformative force of artificial intelligence promises significant benefit to some even as it gives rise to concern among many others. The technology’s potential to disrupt the workplace has prompted widespread discussion. This discourse, however, has largely overlooked the perspective of workers themselves.
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February 18, 2025
Career Barriers
Workers these days are adept at reading the landscape. When they quit their jobs, it’s not always about moving to the next rung on the career ladder. Often, it’s about finding a ladder with more rungs to climb. Career advancement isn’t the straight line it once was.
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February 12, 2025
Discrimination
Hiring, supporting, and retaining talent can be difficult. Of the three parts of this puzzle, getting workers in the door might be the easiest to solve. Efforts to support and retain top workers, by contrast, can be undermined in quiet and insidious ways. Workplace discrimination is one such element.
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February 10, 2025
Multiple Jobs
Global employment reached a record high in 2024, but workers in many parts of the world are still reeling from too little income and the high cost of living. More than half of workers worldwide said they were living paycheck to paycheck in 2024, according to the ADP Research Global Workforce Survey. To make ends meet, many people take on extra work. Twenty-three percent of our survey respondents said they hold two or more jobs
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January 30, 2025
Stress
Chronic worker stress reached a new low in 2024, with the share of people reporting daily on-the-job stress plunging from 15 percent in 2023 to 7.5 percent last year. The decline continues a trend that began after the pandemic, with fewer people each year reporting high-frequency, negative on-the-job stress. But this relief hasn’t coincided with a boost in the share of workers who are thriving at work.
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January 23, 2025
Engagement
Nearly 1 in 5 workers worldwide reported being fully engaged on the job in 2024, a record high in data going back a decade. It was the third straight year that the share of engaged workers grew. The global share of engaged employees now stands at 19 percent, 5 percentage points higher than its pandemic low of 2020, when only 14 percent of workers reported feeling fully engaged on the job.
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