The 10 Must-Read Articles for Talent Professionals This Week

It’s official: The future of work is hybrid.

According to a recent Gallup poll, six in 10 employees with remote-capable jobs want a hybrid work arrangement. This week, The New York Times profiled several U.S. companies and their business leaders as they’ve navigated the world of hybrid work, figuring out how many days employees should be in the office and how strict they will be about enforcing these rules, not to mention how to make and communicate these decisions with empathy for their employees in mind. 

Read more about how these execs are grappling with striking the right hybrid-work balance in the top story in this week’s list of must-read articles for talent professionals.

Further down the list, learn how red-flag language in job postings is on the rise; find out what the hottest job in tech is right now; and discover the newest trend joining the likes of quiet quitting, rage applying, and #BareMinimumMondays — conscious quitting.

Here are the must-read articles from this week:

1. Office Mandates. Pickleball. Beer. What Will Make Hybrid Work Stick? (The New York Times)

2. Biden to Require Chip Makers Getting Funds to Provide Child Care (Bloomberg)

3. ‘Must Handle Stress’: Red-Flag Language in Job Ads Is on the Up (Fortune)

4. What Does Work-Life Balance Mean in a Changed Work World? (BBC)

5. Is the Age of the Empowered Employee Over? (Fast Company)

6. 10 Benefits of Microlearning for Modern Teams (LinkedIn Talent Blog)

7. Free Hoagies for Summer? Wawa Is Recruiting 1,500 Beach Town Employees (The Philadelphia Inquirer)

8. 3 in 4 Job Seekers Who Used ChatGPT to Write Their Resume Got an Interview (MITechNews)

9. Tech's Hottest New Job: AI Whisperer. No Coding Required. (The Washington Post)

10. ‘Conscious Quitting’ Is the Newest Trend Sweeping the Workplace. Here’s What Leaders Can Do to Avoid It (Yahoo!)

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How Employee Referrals Empower Candidates and Improve Diversity (HR Happy Hour)

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