The 10 Must-Read Articles for Recruiters This Week

What do “idle buttons,” employee scoreboards ranking “inactivity time,” and a message announcing “not enough time in the Zone yesterday” have in common?

According to a recent article from The New York Times, they’re all examples of methods companies are using to track employee productivity and encourage workers to get more done, faster. “Since the dawn of modern offices,” the Times notes, “workers have orchestrated their actions by watching the clock. Now, more and more, the clock is watching them.”

To learn more about these productivity trackers and what workers really think about them, be sure to check out the Times’s piece at the top of our list below of must-read articles for talent professionals. But one word of warning: This interactive article will be keeping tabs on your attentiveness and ability to keep on task, so stay sharp!

Here are the must-read articles from this week:

1. The Rise of the Worker Productivity Score (The New York Times)

2. Gen Z Workers Demand Flexibility, Don’t Want to Be Stuffed in a Cubicle (The Washington Post)

3. Does Colorado’s Pay Transparency Law Help Recruiters? (Recruitonomics) 

4. Dropbox Tossed Out the Workplace Rulebook. Here’s How That’s Working (Time)

5. 6 Job Description Examples — and What Makes Them Effective (LinkedIn Talent Blog)

6. Research: The Unintended Consequences of Pay Transparency (Harvard Business Review)

7. JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon Rips Remote Work and Zoom as ‘Management by Hollywood Squares’ and Says Returning to the Office Will Aid Diversity (Yahoo Finance)

8. How to Recruit and Source Passive Candidates (Diversity Recruiting Experts)

9. Are You a ‘Digital Nomad’? European Locales Want Remote Workers (The Wall Street Journal)

10. ‘No One Wants to Work Anymore’ Is a Complaint as Old as Work Itself (Bloomberg)

This week’s must-listen podcast:

Remove Barriers to Hiring with Stacey Gordon (Punk Rock HR)

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