The Must-Read Articles for Talent Professionals This Week

When articles about the “quiet quitting” phenomenon pop up in our news feeds, the stories often revolve around the idea that employees are disengaged and have dropped work down the list of life’s priorities.

But what if employers are also conducting a form of quiet quitting?

“Employees aren’t the only ones distancing themselves from the office,” writes Business Insider. “Employers are quiet quitting on the whole idea of traditional full-time employment. In a survey conducted by the Atlanta Fed last year, businesses said remote work had led them to stock up on part-time employees, temps, independent contractors, and outsourced positions both at home and abroad. . . . In the age of WFH, companies are gig-ifying the American office.”

Research from McKinsey & Company backs this up. One of their recent surveys estimates that temporary workers without full-time benefits now make up 36% of the U.S. workforce.

For talent professionals, this change in the workforce raises many questions. How, for example, do learning and development practitioners incorporate temporary workers into their company’s learning programs? And how do recruiters keep up with a potential revolving door of gig workers and independent contractors?

To learn more about this employer-led form of quiet quitting, be sure to check out Business Insider’s story at the top of our list of must-read articles below. And further down our list, you can learn why economic uncertainty is fueling workers’ thirst for upskilling; why diversity retention may need more attention than diversity recruiting; and why one publication notes that implementing a four-day workweek could be seen as a feminist act.

Here are the must-read articles from this week:

1. In the War over Remote Work, Companies Are Turning Full-Time Jobs into Low-Paying Gigs (Business Insider)

2. Shaky Economic Conditions Drive Workers to Seek Upskilling, Professional Development (HR Dive)

3. ‘Great Resignation’ Continues as Quarter of Workers Look to Change Jobs, PwC Says (Reuters)

4. The Mid-Career Workers Pivoting to Dream Jobs (BBC Worklife)

5. Diversity Recruitment Is Healthy; Diversity Retention Isn’t: 6 Things HR Needs to Do Now (HR Morning)

6. Remote Workers Flocked to ‘Zoom Towns’ During Covid — Now They’re Competing to Stay Work-from-Home (CNBC)

7. Could Instituting a Four-Day Workweek Be a Feminist Act? (Quartz)

8. 5 Talent Leaders Share Their Biggest Work or Career Mistake — and What They Learned from It (LinkedIn Talent Blog)

9. The Great Disengagement: What Is It and How Can Employers Fix It? (Spiceworks)

10. IBM’s HR Team Saved 12,000 Hours in 18 Months after Using AI to Automate 280 Tasks: ‘We’re Spending Time on Things That Matter’ (Fortune)

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