Why 996, 5-Day, and 4-Day Workweeks Impact Freelancers and Full-Timers Differently
By Pavel Shynkarenko
Rigid work models like China’s 996 or the standard 5-day week no longer fit today’s blended workforce. Freelancers and full-timers work on...
Your Workforce is Changing, And AI is Leading the Shift
By Carson Hostetter
Burnout is rising fast, especially among younger workers, and businesses are paying the price in retention and productivity. To address it, employee...
How Creative Benefits Can Help Companies Retain Talent in this Competitive Labor Market
By Mita Mallick
Retaining talent goes beyond paychecks. Employees stay when they feel valued through benefits that support wellness, homeownership, and lifelong learning. From wellness...
Clarity is the Catalyst: How HR Leaders Can Drive Engagement and Performance
By Diane Newell
Amid slowing UK private sector growth, employee engagement is a strategic necessity. In this article, OCM Discovery’s Managing Director, Diane Newell reveals...
Six Red Flags Your Team is Unhappy and How to Fix Them Fast
By Lord Mark Price
An engaged workforce drives performance, but dissatisfaction often surfaces quietly. Drawing on 40 years’ experience, Lord Mark Price identifies six warning...
Spotting Toxic Patterns in the Workplace and How to Manage Them
By Vidya Murali
Toxic workplace patterns often arise from strengths taken too far - loyalty, ambition, or passion - yet they undermine trust, well-being, and...
Why Great Teams Need Both the Positive Emotions of Sustaining and Striving
By Nic Marks
We need stability and change, but too much of either can be problematic. Without change, things stagnate, and we get bored. This...
The Impostor Syndrome: Fraudulence, Fear of Success, and Perfectionism
By Adrian Furnham
Many of us, at one time or another, may have thought, “One day, they’re going to see through me.” If you’re one...
Leading With Humanity: Why Emotional Presence Beats Perfection
By Paul Grant
Emotionally present leadership fosters trust, connection, and psychological safety. By tapping into the power of personality diversity, leaders can respond with empathy...
Engagement is the Engine of Productivity: How HR Must Lead the Charge
By Diane Newell
Organisations must rethink productivity as a people-first challenge, not just a process one. Diane Newell argues that HR leaders must lead this...
Show Your Age: How to Combat Ageism and Reinvent the Workforce
By Sarah Bird
As organisations seek to reshape and reinvent their workforces, there’s a danger in treating older workers as less valuable or desirable....
The Difference Between Necessary Pressure and Toxic Stress and How to Stay on the...
By Sylvana Rochet
Capital is tight, markets are jittery, and boards still demand hockey-stick growth. This article shows war-time CEOs how to apply performance-boosting pressure...
Equipping for Tomorrow: Unlocking New Skills for the Future of Work in 2033
By Dr. Simon L. Dolan, Dr. Mario Raich, and Iolanda Triviño
In an ever-evolving job market, embracing the future requires us to adapt and acquire...
Identity Threats often Lead to Burn Out and Quitting – But Managers Can Help
By Mailys George
Identity threats in the workplace – feeling devalued, misunderstood or that our sense of self is challenged – can lead to emotional...
The Emotional Toll of Over-Digitalization: Preventing “Emotional Shattering” in the Digital Age
By Dr. Samer Elhajjar
Digitalization allows us to work remotely and keep up with friends from other parts of the globe. But what about its...
We’ve Made Space for Neurodivergence – But the Mission Is Far from Over
By Marcus Orme
In this article, Marcus Orme, CEO and Co-Founder of the UK's leading independent media agency, Medialab reflects on how far we’ve come...
The Trouble With Meritocracy
By Emilio J. Castilla
Meritocracy has recently become an increasingly popular term in corporate communications. But simply calling your organization a meritocracy doesn’t make it...
The Business Case for Happiness: Five Expert Tips for Creating Thriving Workplaces
By George Kohlrieser, Andrew Kohlrieser, Lord Mark Price, Zoe Sinclair, Michael Wade, Amit Joshi and Tim Duggan
In an era where employee wellbeing fuels business...
We Need to Talk About Women Bullying Other Women at Work & 6 Key Things...
By Vanessa Vershaw
The truth is out: women are not supporting each other enough in the workplace. Despite efforts to advance gender equality, the latest...
How Existence-Relatedness-Growth (ERG) Can Encourage Collaboration Between Departments Beyond Formal Structure
By Dr Andrew Creed, Professor Ambika Zutshi, and Dr Marzena Baker
With artificial intelligence imposing new challenges for building and enhancing collaborative relationships among personnel,...
Unlocking the Potential of the Future Forward Workforce
By Francesca Morichini
The new generation entering the workplace are the trailblazers of a post-Covid workforce, entering without any memory of the traditional 9-to-5 office...
Alpha-Beta-Gamma: A New Method for Diagnosing Personality and Enhancing Successful Relationships
By Carlos Rey
Psychologists have long battled to formulate frameworks that allow us to understand and interpret the human psyche. Predictably, their findings have often...
The Psychology of Greed
By Adrian Furnham
As one of the seven cardinal sins, greed is a trait no one wants to be accused of. While people detest and...
From Burnout to Breakthrough: Why Resilience Matters and How to Create It
By Shawna Simcik
In today’s demanding corporate environment, employees are more burned out than ever. Even high-performing employees, who may continue to deliver results and...
The Drama Queen Leader: Theatricality and Inappropriate Behaviour
By Adrian Furnham
Friendly, dramatic, and attention-seeking, they are difficult to miss. You may find them entertaining in social settings, but what happens when you...
Are Businesses Failing to Adapt to Gen Z?
By Mariah Levin
Every new generation of workers confronts generational stereotypes and redefines workplace expectations overtime. Some headlines have painted Gen Z as entitled, money-hungry,...
The Happiness Payoff: How Employee Wellbeing Drives Business Success
By Mark Price
Employee happiness is a crucial driver of business success, enhancing productivity, loyalty, and commercial performance. Lord Mark Price, founder of WorkL, outlines...
How to Manage Challenging Colleagues
By George Kohlrieser
In my years as a hostage negotiator, I learned a profound truth: people do not change because of force—they change because of...
Nuance In, Noise Out: Helping your Team Maintain Focus Amidst Uncertainty
By Dr. Rebecca Homkes
Great strategy thrives when it breaks critical tension. Strategic leaders have long balanced timeframes, focus versus adaptability, and clarity amongst uncertainty....
How Psychological Safety Builds Healthier, More Productive Workplaces?
By Lesley Cooper
When the workplace environment emanates an atmosphere of trust and respect, when colleagues are self-aware enough to communicate in effective and meaningful...
The Future of Work and the Megachallenges for HR in 2025 and Beyond
By Simon L. Dolan and Pedro Cesar Martinez
Introduction
In an era characterized by rapid technological advancxements, demographic shifts, and evolving workplace dynamics, the role of...
HR Trends 2025: Our Pay & People Predictions
By Rameez Kaleem
Introduction
As we prepare forenter 2025, leaders should expect significant changes within the role of HR.
This is being influenced by several factors, including...
5 Transformative Changes to Help Companies Retain Talent in 2025
By Jason Warner
The media industry has a retention problem. While seemingly offering good pay, career progression and a creative working environment, companies are continually...
2025 Outlook: HR Trends Shaping Work in 2025
By Sirsha Haldar
With 2025 quickly approaching, businesses are grappling with the pace of change that is already taking place in the workplace. In this...
DEI Has Failed: Why Neurodiverse Talent Feel Excluded from the Workplace and What Leaders...
By Leanne Maskell
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives promised workplaces where everyone feels valued and supported. However, for many neurodivergent people, these promises...
Neurodiversity as a Catalyst for Change in the Modern-Day Workplace
By Charlotte Roberts
Gone are the days of a ‘one-size-fits-all’ workplace, and as businesses strive to innovate and adapt, neurodiversity works as a powerful catalyst...
“Reverse Backstabbing”- The Art of Praising People Behind Their Backs
By Avi Liran
Gossip can be hurtful and malicious, leaving behind a bad smell. And while we may not always avoid it, we can choose...
Why Should You and Your Business Adopt an OpenHR Framework?
By Jeremy Blain
Welcome to the new era of human capital management - where independent talent and traditional roles unite to create a workforce that's...
Artful Deception: Exploring the Interplay of Art, Fraud, and Emotions (part 2)
By Dr. Monika Ewa Klein, Dr. Anna Maria Rostomyan and Dr. Ekaterina Safonova
As the boundaries between traditional and digital artistic expression blurs, the article...
Fitting the (dark-side, problematic) person to the (ideal) job
By Adrian Furnham
We might not care to admit it, but most of us have a dark side. Although it's tempting to view that as...
Artful Deception: Exploring the Interplay of Art, Fraud, and Emotions (part 1)
By Dr. Monika Ewa Klein, Dr. Anna Maria Rostomyan and Dr. Ekaterina Safonova
This article delves into the intricate relationship between art, emerging digital technologies,...
Breaking Barriers: How Interracial Partnerships Redefine Business Success
By Anthon Garcia
Diversity has many faces — gender, socioeconomic, racial, and cultural, among others. In industries like health, tech, and finance, female entrepreneurs from different...
The Evolution of Open Innovation: The Time Has Come to Achieve and Measure Results
By Filippo Frangi
In a world of continuous challenges, Open Innovation has become essential for companies, driving significant transformations and providing support during a period...
The Role of Leadership in Combating Burnout: How Effective Talent Management Starts at the...
By Indiana Lee
Businesses might set a tireless pace, but employees and leadership alike risk burnout by trying to match it without considering the essential...
Why We Need to Learn to Disagree Well in the Workplace?
By David Liddle
Political discourse and debate across Europe – indeed across the world - has become increasingly entrenched, divisive and disrespectful thanks, in part,...
The Great Resignation
By Adrian Furnham
Many believe that the young generation is not interested in working, with some calling them the Lazy Generation. The concept of the...
Why and How ‘Healthy’ Leaders Can Boost Employee Mental Health
By Anna Eliatamby
Mental health has a massive impact on our leadership, work, and life. It heavily influences how we lead and the people we...
The Three HR Imperatives to Foster Workforce Agility
By Vincent Belliveau
It's hard to find anything that's more disruptive, and yet as inevitable, as change. And today, the pace of change has accelerated...
Debunking Two Common Myths About Psychological Safety
By Gina Battye
In today's fast-paced corporate landscape, psychological safety is gaining recognition as being crucial for cultivating effective collaboration and driving innovation. However, alongside...
Workplace Mindfulness: Unforeseen Effects for Companies
By Michaël Roux and Fidan Kurtaliqi
In today’s business environment characterised by uncertainty, intense competition, and an incessant pursuit of better performance, employees face escalating...