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Despite their popularity, open-plan offices (OPOs) have several downsides. Not only can they stifle innovation, but they can also be emotionally taxing. This post describes the psychological toll that OPOs can take on employees and explains how re-imagining the purpose of the office as a space for collaboration can help employers persuade remote-only workers to come back into the office.

Chronic work-related stress has depleted employees’ energy reserves along with their ability to feel positively towards their workplaces. As a result, they are unhappy and underperforming. To help employers fix this problem, this post describes six of the most common causes of workplace burnout and provides suggestions for how to address them.

Employers offer education benefits to help their employees continue to learn and acquire new skills in an increasingly competitive and degree-demanding job market. Despite the multitude of ways in which education can benefit employees, many of the education benefits provided by businesses are not being used. To help companies rectify this problem, this post identifies four key reasons why these benefits often go underutilized and describes two steps that employers can take to improve their education initiatives going forward.

LGBTQI+ workers deal with an overwhelming set of obstacles, harms, and inequities in the workplace. This post provides employers with five actions they can take to provide members of the LGBTQI+ community with the work environment and career opportunities that they deserve.