The New Hires of 2023 Are Unprepared for Work
Hello, and welcome back. In this edition, we take a look at how remote learning during the pandemic is gumming up workplaces, early-career consultants who are starved for things to do and more.
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‘How Do I Do That?’ The New Hires of 2023 Are Unprepared for Work
The knock-on effect of years of remote learning during the pandemic is gumming up workplaces around the country. It is one reason professional service jobs are going unfilled and goods aren’t making it to market. It also helps explain why national productivity has fallen for the past five quarters, the longest contraction since at least 1948, according to the U.S. Labor Department.
Workers to Employers: We’re Just Not That Into You
Early on, remote work looked like a win-win: Employees got to work where and when they pleased, and employers got more productivity. Now, employees still love remote work, but recent studies find no boost to productivity and a decline for fully remote work. And yet most employers have given up on prodding staff to return to the office full time.
It is symptomatic of a?broader shift in attitudes ?toward work.?
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For Once, Rookie Consultants Don’t Have Enough to Do
Joining the bottom of the consulting-firm food chain typically means working 12-hour days, juggling work during vacations and fixing PowerPoint fonts late at night. These days, many rookie consultants are just hoping to be on a project—any project.?For the first time in years, recent hires have too little to do—and that’s stressing them out more than the round-the-clock work they anticipated.
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1 年Private schools replacing credentialed teachers with those who haven’t completed the extra 5 years required to learn to teach their major.
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1 年This is sadly true. We have to dig our way out of it. Mediocrity is the new "norm."