It seems like there’s been a “Great” something happening every few months lately - and now here we are looking at the “Great Flattening”. As layoffs continue to roll on, more and more manager roles are being eliminated as companies seek to cut costs and “bureaucracy”. Millennials have worked their way into these roles just in time to be most impacted by the Great Flattening; caught between junior roles and the C-suite, older Millennials have had a higher increase in layoffs or firings than...

For people considering a move to a startup, equity is often the biggest part of their compensation packages. Your hard work now, says the company, will pay off when the company goes public down the road. But volatile economic conditions have led to a sharp downtick in both the number of IPOs and how much money they’ve raised over the past four years. As companies (sometimes unexpectedly) stay private for longer, employees can get restless. More and more companies are looking for ways to...

Employees have some biiiiigggg feelings about RTO mandates. And as anyone with a kid, or who’s been to therapy, knows - feelings have a way of making themselves known. The latest way those RTO feelings are making themselves known? RTO Revenge, broadly defined as when employees follow the letter of RTO law, but take whatever smallish liberties they can. People are coming in late, leaving early, and stopping by the office fridge to grab some LaCroix or some snacks on the way out. Others are...