Next week a former U.S. Postal Service employee will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to require employers to be more accommodating of religiously observant workers, including a right to skip shifts on the Sabbath and still keep their jobs. The case has the potential to transform workplaces, and the employer-employee relationship, across America, experts say.
When DEI commitment is intentional and consistent by leadership and measured over time, organizations experience results, such as higher rates of innovation, improved decision-making, and higher profitability than their industry peers.
It seems cliché, but the old adage that "employees don't leave companies, they leave managers" is actually true. If a company puts the employee at the center of everything they do, starting before they join the company and continuing throughout their career, it empowers managers and leaders to help employees grow and develop.
We've created an endless spiral of elementary school practices at work. We monitor employees by hours or keystrokes or lines of code. They then "produce" to meet the expected hours or keystrokes or lines of code. And the cycle continues, with employers trying to continually up the target.