Happy At Work: Happy Holidays!
Jack Kelly
Forbes, Board of Directors Blind, Founder and CEO of The Compliance Search Group and Wecruitr.com, Co-host of the Blind Ambition Podcast
The business world would be better off if leadership and managers were more empathetic. If a CEO really knows what it’s like to work in a warehouse, fulfillment center, serving customers in a restaurant or delivering food, they’d have a greater appreciation of the daily challenges they endure. On?Blind, the anonymous platform for millions of members to post career-related comments and opinions, a verified DoorDash employee posted that the company will?require all employees to deliver at least one order?each month beginning 2022. The online responses ranged from shock and disgust to saying this is a smart and empathetic program.??
It’s the holiday season, but for many people around the world, they’re not feeling it. After nearly two years of enduring a brutal pandemic, we’re having to cope with?Omicron surging. Despite the overhang of gloom, we see people striving to make this world a better place. Pre-pandemic, it was a standard and accepted practice to have totalitarian CEOs, executives and middle managers rule with an iron fist without any concerns about the mental health and well-being of their workers.
Estimates ranging from $100 billion to over $400 billion have been stolen from Covid-19 unemployment and other pandemic relief programs. The United States Labor Department reported that nearly $90 billion in unemployment benefits alone could have been paid improperly due to fraudulent activities, according to PBS NewsHour. The U.S. Secret Service released data on Tuesday on its efforts to investigate acts of fraud that exploit Covid-19 relief funds. Investigations have resulted in the seizure of millions of dollars and have assisted in the return of approximately $2 billion.
Let’s face the facts: it’s likely that we’ll be in a virus-driven world for a long time. We could complain and lament our fates. No one would fault us for feeling bad about young adults losing out on their college experiences when universities turn to remote learning, your vacation is canceled at the last minute and the dreaded feeling of being stuck in your home or apartment over the holiday season sets in once again.
Christy Pambianchi, executive vice president and chief people officer of Intel, said one of her top priorities is to prepare the chip maker’s global teams?for the future of work. From the crisis, came an opportunity to reimagine how people can work and collaborate together. For Intel, in part, this means positioning the tech company as “hybrid-first.” The company is focusing on offering a?“dynamic, flexible and inclusive workplace that enables all our 110,600 employees to do their best work.” This will lead to a “results-driven organization and enable our teams to execute with speed.”
This isn’t the happy holiday season we were eagerly anticipating. We excitedly look forward to the Thanksgiving Day to New Years Day time period. It’s the time of year of a collective feeling of hope and happiness—an opportunity to take some time off from work to see family and friends, travel, take in a Broadway show, go out to dinner, catch some live sporting events or watch your favorite band perform.
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Within the last couple of weeks, a large number of major corporations, including Apple, Uber, Lyft, Meta, Ford, Capital One, DoorDash, Zillow, Twitter, Microsoft and Dropbox, have given up or pushed back indefinitely on requiring workers to return to their offices. Omicron, according to politicians and the mass media, is becoming a surging threat. In addition to business offices closing, we’ve seen colleges, Broadway shows, concerts and sporting events canceled over what President Joe Biden is predicting to be a winter of “severe illness and death.”
Disgraced former McDonald’s CEO, Steve Easterbrook, returned over $105 million in equity and cash?to the fast food chain after the company “learned that he had lied about the extent of his misconduct while he was its top executive” the Associated Press reported. Easterbrook said “During my tenure as CEO, I failed at times to uphold McDonald’s values and fulfill certain of my responsibilities as a leader of the company. I apologize to my former co-workers, the board and the company’s franchisees and suppliers for doing so.”
Making a “prediction” is a sophisticated way of?saying you’re making a guess as to what will happen in the future. It’s not too far removed from using a Ouija board or magic eight ball. The reality is that if we could all gaze into a crystal ball and see into the future, we’d be rich from investing early in Bitcoin, the right pumped-up meme stocks and NFTs. Very little in life is black and white. Instead of making ironclad predictions, it makes more sense to give the odds of something happening. Here are some of the changes that we are 30% to 65% likely to see happen in 2022.
About Jack Kelly
Jack?Kelly is the CEO, founder, and executive recruiter at one of the oldest and largest global search firms in his area of expertise. He has personally placed thousands of professionals with top-tier companies over the last 20-plus years. Jack?is passionate about advocating for job seekers. In doing so, he founded a start-up company, WeCruitr, at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic. The mission of WeCruitr is to help people in need and make the job search more humane and enjoyable. As a proponent of career growth,?Jack?shares his insider interviewing tips and career advancement secrets as a Senior Contributor for Forbes.?He?also covers timely topics related to corporations, high-profile people, Wall Street, politics and other important matters. The pieces offer insight into the news and how it may impact your career. Jack is the author of?How To Get A Job In Tough Times, as well as the co-host of the?Happy At Work?podcast.
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