The Must-Read Articles for Talent Professionals This Week
“Let’s face it,” writes Harvard Business Review in a recent article. “Who hasn’t felt bored at work at some point? Maybe you’re experiencing it right now, scrolling through HBR.org [Ed. note: Or the LinkedIn Talent blog for that matter!] to take a break.”
The trouble, however, occurs when situational boredom (tuning out at the end of an unproductive meeting or hopping onto your phone to play some Wordle or a LinkedIn game) turns into existential boredom.
“While workplace boredom is common,” HBR continues, “it becomes truly problematic when it’s rooted not in repetitive tasks or tedious meetings, but in a deeper sense of purposelessness — when employees find themselves asking, What am I even doing here?”
Fortunately, there are several steps managers can take to address this kind of disengagement and prevent an uptick in turnover and so-called “quiet quitting.” First up, perhaps surprisingly, is to simply accept it. “The employees who were best able to overcome existential boredom did so by first accepting it,” HBR writes. “Conversely, those who had the hardest time overcoming existential boredom were those that refused to acknowledge it.”
To learn more about tackling — and sometimes embracing — boredom at work, be sure to check out HBR’s piece at the top of our list below of must-read articles for talent professionals. And further down our list, you can find out what it takes to engage passive talent in the current labor market; how LinkedIn video can help you attract candidates; and why teaching and developing social capital could be key to workers rolling up their sleeves and getting things done.
Here are the must-read articles from this week:
1. Research: When Boredom Drives Turnover on Your Team (Harvard Business Review)
2. I Asked ChatGPT What Hiring Will Look Like in 2035: Here’s the 10 Surprising Predictions It Made (Talent Leadership Insights)
3. The Art of Engaging Passive Talent: A Data-Driven Guide (The Talent Architects)
4. How to Use Video on LinkedIn to Attract More Job Candidates (LinkedIn Talent Blog)
5. How Leading Organizations Are Building Learning Cultures in a Remote World (Forbes)
6. How to Help Your Employees Develop Social Capital to Get Things Done (Al Dea on LinkedIn)
7. The Great Online Learning Reset? (Dr. Philippa Hardman)
8. Hiring on Autopilot: Genius or Just Plain Risky? (For Recruiters, By Recruiters)
9. How Is Your Organization Using AI to Develop Leaders and Talent? (Naphtali Bryant on LinkedIn)
10. Small Businesses Still Struggle to Hire, Despite Rising Recession Fears (Inc.)
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