Early in November 2021, Portugal passed a law banning employers from contacting employees outside of work hours. This concept is nothing new, as France passed a similar law in 2017. Portugal’s legislation is just the latest attempt to encourage employees to disconnect at the end of the day in order to improve work-life balance. Since the introduction of Covid-19 nearly two years ago, much…
With limited guidelines or consensus on how leaders should choose, administer, and debrief their employees and candidates using workplace assessments, practitioners and academics alike need a code of ethics. The American Psychological Association’s Ethics Code and Principles for the Validation and Use of Personnel Section Procedures exist, but talent management professionals…
Managing by walking around isn’t going to cut it with hybrid teams. Learn how to overcome the challenges and get projects done. Managers often complain about hybrid employee procrastination resulting in missing deadlines and task delays, when compared to their in-office colleagues. Research by Microsoft, which surveyed 20,000 people and analyzed trillions of Microsoft 365 productivity…
Leadership consultants, executive coaches, industrial-organizational psychologists, and artificial intelligence all have the same goal: to help make people better at what they do. Do you agree? Recently on The Science of Personality, cohosts Ryne Sherman, PhD, chief science officer, and Blake Loepp, PR manager, spoke with Ted Hayes, PhD, a research psychologist in northern Virginia,…
Anyone who works in a deadline-driven environment will tell you working back late occasionally is part of the job. However, if you're constantly finding yourself at the office long after everyone else has left for the day, it might be time to reassess your work practices. Are you continually staying back late because you legitimately have too much on? Or are you wasting valuable time during…