Keith MacKenzie

All roads lead to DEI in the workplace.
But which one do you take?
It’s been a challenging time in so many different ways. COVID-19, highly publicized police shootings of Black individuals, and the politically charged climate in the United States especially stand out. Amidst all this is a considerable spike in awareness of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) as a crucial topic. For many, recent events merely amplified long-standing issues around DEI and brought to light the challenges that ...

Content Strategy Manager at Workable
A well-crafted DEIB strategy is crucial to the success of a company. According to a Gartner report, companies that are diverse and inclusive see a 30% improvement in team performance.
So how can your organization make progress in this area? There are a number of ways in which you can optimize your DEIB strategy so that you move closer to achieving your goals in diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging. And more importantly, there are ways in which you c...

In the midst of the shift to remote work, the blurred lines between personal and work lives, and an increased focus on employee wellness in 2020, one paradigm shift stands out: greater emphasis on diversity, equity and inclusion in the workplace.
A survey report on DEI at work by Workable, a recruitment solutions provider, found that 63% of nearly 800 HR and business professionals have DEI as part of their company’s overall business strategy.
Nearly one quarter (23.6%) said DEI became a prior...

Data is all the rage these days, with storage expected to reach 175 zettabytes by 2025. That’s 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes. That’s an absolute lot.
That’s according to Deloitte, and emphasized by Avinash Tripathi, a leading figure in analytics who has observed that explosion of data throughout his long career. We sat down with him for an email Q&A and he had plenty of insights on this.
Currently working as VP of Analytics at the University of Phoenix, Avinash brings more than 20 years...

Recent data shows that career-driven professionals want salary transparency when they’re looking at new opportunities. Stigmas and taboos around public sharing of salaries between colleagues and in job descriptions are increasingly going away.
Does it matter for employers? Absolutely. Your talent attraction and retention metrics will be impacted if you don’t plan for this.
Related: Salary transparency: Good thing for employees – and employers?
So, to help you get ahead of any potential issues...

If you played Dungeons & Dragons as a kid, then you’ll love this one – we’ve taken the standard alignment chart and found nine famous characters from TV and movies who fit to each of the nine alignments.
Don’t know Dungeons & Dragons? That’s OK – in short, each of the nine categories shows the “alignment” of a specific character in this world – whether they’re good, neutral, or evil, and whether they take a lawful, neutral, or chaotic approach to their decision-making process.
Streamline your...

Welcome to a crossroad many face but few discuss openly. If you’re reading this, you’ve likely realized that your new job isn’t the dream position you hoped for.
In fact, you don’t love your new job, or you positively hate it – even after the very first day.
It’s disheartening, yes, but not uncommon or unsolvable. You can navigate these choppy waters with practical steps and a bit of professional insight.
Contents
Understanding the situation
Immediate steps
1. Seek feedback
2. Clarify your ro...

It’s getting boring to say that “this year has been a crazy year” – because honestly, since 2020, it feels like every year has been more turbulent than the previous one.
Nevertheless, it still calls for a breakdown of the main trends that we saw throughout the year. Without further ado, let’s have a look at the top seven developments of 2023:
Contents
1. Layoffs
2. Job turbulence
United States
United Kingdom
Asia-Pacific (APAC)
3. Salary trends
United States
United Kingdom
Increased transpare...

Coffee badging is the latest in a long line of new terminologies that have surfaced in the work world recently – joining quiet quitting, quiet hiring & firing, resenteeism, bare-minimum Mondays, lazy girl jobs, rage applying, and other linguistic hallmarks that point to how much has changed at work since the advent of COVID-19.
As an employer or hiring manager, you’re really at the heart of this new coffee badging phenomenon. While novel, coffee badging is actually just a modern echo of the o...

So, is AI all hype or is it the real thing? Instead of speculating, we get insight from those in the know. In this case, Javed Khan, SVP and GM of Collaboration at Cisco, shared his tips and perspectives on AI in the workplace.
Contents
Is the AI hype for real?
What about the AI skeptics?
How do we navigate without precedence?
Don’t just buy the hype
Is the AI hype for real?
First, we asked him what AI in the workplace looks like right now and whether it’s here to stay.
“While it seems overni...

If a company gave you Fridays off, but you were able to keep your current salary, would you do it? Of course you would.
If you were an employer encouraged to do that for your teams? Maybe yes, maybe no.
The topic of the 32-hour workweek – also described as the four-day workweek – is top of mind for those in the business community after US Senator Bernie Sanders presented new legislation calling for a shortened workweek without a reduction in pay.
If passed, any hours worked above 32 in a week...

In March’s Hiring Pulse, we looked at year-over-year comparisons through different lenses in our data.
And this time, we find the differences even more striking. Let’s have a look and understand what those differences are – and more so, what they mean.
Contents
How we’re looking at data
Main highlights
1. Time to Fill
2. Total Job Openings
3. Candidates per Hire
What’s going on here?
Want more? Check out our previous Hiring Pulses:
The Hiring Pulse: Methodology
How we’re looking at data
We’ve...

According to layoffs.fyi, as of the end of March 2024, 222 tech companies have laid off 56,858 workers. In 2023, tech layoffs were 59% higher than 2022.
Yet, according to the most recent Workable hiring data, job postings are up this year. Companies posting 8.7 jobs on average in January and 8.6 on average in February. That’s up from 6.6 in January 2023 and the same in January 2022.
A Flourish chart
So what gives? It’s a combination of factors, most of all including a wide range of discrepanc...

Since the 19th century, we’ve seen a number of large-scale foundational shifts in how we carry out our work and how the surrounding economy operates as a result.
The Industrial Revolution, of course, is an early example – it marks a profound transformation from agrarian, handcraft economies to machine-driven manufacturing.
Enter mechanization of processes, factories, mass production – and ultimately, a workforce skilled in machine operation and maintenance and technical skills, as opposed to ...