The 10 Must-Read Articles for Talent Professionals This Week

For many companies, the prevailing wisdom has been that an optimal hybrid workweek should find employees commuting to the office for three days and working remotely for two. But what if this thinking is out of step with what employees want and doesn’t increase productivity?

“The combination of having been almost two years out of the office and the labor market becoming incredibly tight,” Nicholas Bloom, a Stanford University economist and remote work advisor, told The Wall Street Journal, “now firms realize that three-two, rather than being seen as generous and appealing, is average at best.”

What’s more, the WSJ reports that new research from Harvard Business School found that workers who went into the office once or twice a week were not only more productive, but also felt they had greater flexibility without being completely untethered from their coworkers.

To learn more about how to improve your company’s hybrid work model, be sure to check out the top spot in our list below of must-read articles for talent professionals. And further down the list, you can also learn how to build an anti-racist company; what you can do to attract recent college graduates; and why HR professionals are feeling more burned out than ever.

Here are the must-read articles from this week:

1. What If the Optimal Workweek Is Two Days in the Office, Not Three? (The Wall Street Journal)

2. How to Build an Anti-Racist Company (Harvard Business Review)

3. Is the 32-Hour Workweek Coming to California? (SHRM)

4. What New Graduates Are Looking for from Employers in the Age of the Great Resignation (Inc.)

5. Is Diversity Recruiting Dead? (LinkedIn)

6. Your Female Coworker Probably Wants to Quit (Bloomberg)

7. What If the Future of Work Is Exactly the Same? (Vox)

8. Survey: Almost All HR Pros Are Burned Out — and Many Are Thinking of Leaving (HR Dive)

9. How to Make an Offer Your Top Candidate Won’t Turn Down (LinkedIn Talent Blog)

10. Should a Morning Staff Meeting Feel Like Homeroom? (The New York Times)

This week’s must-listen podcast:

Developing People Analytics (Recruiting Future With Matt Alder)

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