Technology
The Academic Costs of Social Apps
Excessive screen time, largely spent on gaming apps, is contagious and lowers students' grades and post-graduate income, a Chinese study reveals.
Tag: Employment
Understanding why people are out of work and innovative ways to provide them with jobs
Organizational Development
Treating New Hires as Strangers
Newly hired managers do better when integrated slowly into firm operations.
Health
Coping With Mental Illness at Work
Employees experiencing mental illness successfully manage their symptoms by disengaging from some aspects of their jobs and engaging in others.
Organizational Development
Decentralized Workplace
Companies that adopt nonhierarchical organizational structures require deliberate efforts and collective planning to succeed.
Human Rights
Changing Our Minds About Developmental Disabilities in South Korea
How reimagining the role people with developmental disabilities play in society and the workforce is driving greater equity.
Social Enterprise
Prisoner to Entrepreneur
Formerly incarcerated individuals who face employment discrimination are more likely to pursue entrepreneurship.
Business
Equity in Employment: A Vital Step Toward Dismantling Structural Racism in Brazil
A new data-based initiative is helping businesses measure the racial equity of their workforce and take steps to improve it.
Measurement & Evaluation
In Search of Durable Change
Measuring how long impact lasts can be difficult, but nonprofits and donors should make the effort.
Business
When Diversity Initiatives Fail
Technology tools used to identify racially diverse candidates made employees at one company feel like Black and brown candidates were being commodified.