Office Attendance is Rising
Promotion patterns and a stark labor market shift are changing behavior better than RTO mandates could have dreamed of.
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The Retention Tax
You think you’re running 15% turnover when you’re actually paying a 35% tax on productivity. Here's the math.
The Consistency Principle
Why half your company loves working for you and the other half is updating LinkedIn.
When to Fight to Keep People (And When to Let Them Go)
Most companies fight to keep everyone. The best fight to keep the right people.
Half the Team, Double the Output
Why small teams of excellent people produce more output at lower cost than large teams of average performers... and the math behind it.
The Hidden Cost of Niceness
If Labor Day is about honoring work, then the real way to honor it is by refusing to let harmony masquerade as culture.
Most Employees Don’t Build Culture
Two kinds of employees strengthen culture. All the rest quietly sink it.
Why We Cling to Bad Jobs — and Bad Stocks
Cost basis doesn’t predict returns. Tenure doesn’t predict performance. Yet we keep mistaking history for value.
Deferred Compensation
What happens when deferred compensation breaks under the pressure of low early productivity and high workforce mobility
AI First. Humans Maybe.
Capital is flowing to AI, not people—and that changes everything about workforce strategy.
RTO or WFH? Which Workforce Strategy Drives Superior Returns?
How choosing between sweatpants and suits shapes not only your company culture - but also your investment returns.
Tapped Out and Teetering
Is the American consumer about to break? Dissecting retail results, interest rate impacts, and savings data to understand today’s consumer spending weakness.