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In today’s edition:
Speak your mind
Vacation benefits
Coworking
—Courtney Vinopal, Kristine White, Adam DeRose
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Francis Scialabba
With all the challenges hybrid work poses to career development, it’s almost as if employees need a mentor to help them navigate mentorship. That’s partly the thinking behind CEO Action for Diversity & Inclusion’s Mentoring Initiative, a PwC-sponsored program that pairs participants with fellow mentees and a mentor outside of their own companies.
The hope is that the program offers mentees a safe space to talk openly about their biggest professional challenges, from finding the right mentor to dealing with office politics, Michael Fenlon, PwC’s chief future of work officer, told HR Brew.
Navigating mentorship. The mentoring initiative was launched last year by the coalition, which was first started in 2017 by Tim Ryan, chairman and senior partner at PwC.
According to Fenlon, the coalition, consisting of 2,400 organizations, requested nominations for high-potential employees who could advance to upper management or the C-suite. As part of the program, cohorts of seven to 10 mentees meet with a mentor virtually over a period of six months. More than 400 mentors and mentees have participated in the initiative since it started last year, and a fourth cohort is kicking off this July, per PwC.
While the program isn’t intended to replace the traditional mentoring relationships employees build within their company, Fenlon suggested the program could help participants better navigate these relationships in a hybrid environment.
Keep reading.—CV
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The world of work is changing rapidly (no secret there), and employees are looking for fairer, more fulfilling positions.
Add the emergence of AI to this mix, and the recruitment industry is feelin’ more unpredictable than, well, ever.
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Francis Scialabba
Workers who do not take advantage of their vacation days may be missing out on health benefits that come from taking a break, researchers from the University of South Australia (UniSA) found in a study published earlier this year.
The study, one of the largest to analyze adult movement behavior patterns when on vacation, found that workers were more likely to engage in healthier behaviors during their time off—such as increased sleep and physical activity—and that the behaviors continued when they returned to work.
“When people go on holiday, they’re changing their everyday responsibilities because they’re not locked down to their normal schedule,” Ty Ferguson, study coauthor and UniSA research associate, said in an April statement.
The study analyzed fitness tracker data from over 300 Australian adults for 13+ months. While on vacation, data from the participants’ devices showed that they slept 21 more minutes and exercised five more minutes per day. Data from the devices also showed that participants had 29 fewer minutes of sedentary time each day compared to their pre-vacation routine, the study found.
The longer the vacation, the longer it took to return to pre-vacation levels of sleep and physical activity after the trip.
Keep reading.—KW
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Kimberly Williams
Here’s this week’s edition of our Coworking series, in which we chat 1:1 with an HR Brew reader. Want to be featured in an upcoming edition? Click here to introduce yourself.
They say experience is the best teacher. For Kimberly Williams, the VP of people at Walker Advertising, previous HR experience at county governments, where she held top brass accountable to workplace policies, got her in “situations where I felt like [that] by doing my job, I was…putting my head on the chopping block.” She left the public sector and joined legal advertising agency Walker Advertising in September 2021 and is now using her expertise to help employees far and wide handle “discrimination and harassment” at their own companies. She’s even channeling her HR expertise to help the agency guide client law firms through expanding their labor and employment work—teaching people “how to sue their boss.”
What’s the best change you’ve made at work?
At a former organization, I walked into a space where a few privileged individuals had openly mistreated others. There was a culture of fear, and I could tell the prior HR chief had not held folks accountable. So, I started engaging leaders when violations occurred and explaining the risks of inaction. I initiated outside investigations into misconduct and [sought] to rebuild trust in our department. We began disciplining when investigators came back with findings and defended our decisions all the way to arbitration. With each action, more people came forward because they could trust in the process.
Keep reading.—AD
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Francis Scialabba
Today’s top HR reads.
Stat: The share of HR job postings that advertise remote and/or hybrid work fell to 19.2% this May from 23.9% the year prior. (Indeed)
Quote: “I used to have expectations. I wanted promotions, pay raises, and a better life…Now, I have none. I just want to survive.”—Cici Zhang, a 32-year-old worker, who faces age discrimination in China as part of a phenomenon known as the “curse of 35” (the New York Times)
Read: New York firm Vornado is spending $1.2 billion to renovate two office buildings near Penn Station in the hope that workers will be lured by an easy commute. (the Wall Street Journal)
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