by Alberto Franco | Jun 20, 2024 | People Management, Trends, Work relationships
Effective feedback saves lives (professional and otherwise) A reflection on the benefits of adopting a corporate culture based on constructive feedback Increasingly, the issue of feedback and its proper return is taking a prominent position, both in the work...
by Alberto Franco | Jun 19, 2024 | Trends, Work relationships
Office bullies There is the violent colleague struggling with outbursts of anger, the one who instead implements a more subtle strategy of tacit suggestion and misbehavior, or the one who pillories others for alleged faults. Worker-on-worker violence, writes...
by Alberto Franco | Jun 19, 2024 | People Management, Trends, Work relationships
Major layoffs Those just concluded have been difficult weeks for the tech giants. The so-called “tech winter” had been underway for several months, as stock market valuations of industry stocks plummeted and new funding for startups dried up. The last few...
by Alberto Franco | Jun 19, 2024 | People Management, Trends, Work relationships
What about smart working? The new minister of public administration is named Paolo Zangrillo. Among many things, he is a supporter of the Turin-Lyon Tav, smart working, and a strong critic of citizenship income, which he would in fact like to dismantle. He is 61 years...
by Alberto Franco | Jun 18, 2024 | Trends, Work relationships
I’ll fire you, but not too much Do the bare minimum of what the employer expects. They dubbed it “quiet quitting,” it went viral on social media. Now the network has coined a new expression for an equally passive-aggressive phenomenon that is...
by Alberto Franco | Jun 18, 2024 | People Management, Trends, Work relationships
The purpose of the work What is the most important thing about a job? For most people the answer is usually salary, of course. But, in many other cases, a second element that prompts one to consider a job interesting is the search for deeper meaning. A survey by the...