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Amazon and Starbucks are Giving Low-Wage Workers More Job Flexibility

Quartz | The systems have gotten more sophisticated by integrating with software like Slack and Facebook Messenger to make communication more seamless, says Jayson Saba, a senior director of product management at UKG, a global HR and workforce management company. The pandemic forced wider adoption.
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Are You Listening? Why it's Critical for Employers to Transform Employee Feedback into Action

Remote Report | Another report, conducted by UKG’s Workforce Institute, an HR management think tank based in Lowell, Mass., and Weston, Fla., showed similar stats. In its survey of some 4,000 workers in 11 countries, about a quarter of remote workers and one-third of hybrid workers felt they didn’t have any influence on company decision-making.
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Are You Listening? Why it's Critical for Employers to Transform Employee Feedback into Action

Remote Report | Another report, conducted by UKG’s Workforce Institute, an HR management think tank based in Lowell, Mass., and Weston, Fla., showed similar stats. In its survey of some 4,000 workers in 11 countries, about a quarter of remote workers and one-third of hybrid workers felt they didn’t have any influence on company decision-making.
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Big Deal

Fortune | The Workforce Institute at UKG’s new report gauges the “gap between employee voice and employer action” that can lead to low engagement and turnover, if left unresolved. A survey of more than 4,000 employees across 11 countries found that 86% of respondents said individuals at their organization are not heard equally or fairly by employers.
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Kickstarter is Moving to a 4-Day Workweek

Inc. | "Remote workers are now coming back, and they're used to some flexibility," says Chris Mullen, executive director at Boston-based think tank the Workforce Institute. Mullen advises most employers to try it, provided they first gauge employees' interest and engage in significant dialogue about how to do it effectively.
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New Survey Shows the Business Benefit of Feeling Heard – 5 Ways to Build Inclusive Teams

Forbes | These measurable business benefits were uncovered by “The Heard and the Heard-Nots”, a global study of over 4,000 employees, conducted by The Workforce Institute at UKG and Workplace Intelligence. Yet, despite the tangible benefits to financial performance, productivity and engagement, a high majority of employees (86%) feel that people at their workplace are not heard fairly or equally.
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