Technicalities are the easy part and that the real work is an inner appraisal of why you do what you do. Be courageous enough to ask these questions and start the work now.

To retain employees, organizations need to evolve their approach to building community, cohesion, and a sense of belonging at work.

Time off by choice can be wonderful if you can swing it, a chance to recalibrate your priorities and detox from the stress of the working world.

Removing the routine obligations of social life drains presence, conversational practice, relational effort and friendship from all of us. Exciting new research shows that talking with responsive communication partners softens our viewpoints, reduces our need to be right, and helps us become less self-focused.

Despite a widespread desire to get back to normal, social bandwidth is lower for many than it was pre-pandemic, mental-health professionals say.

A man is trapped in a car, rushing down a hill toward a cliff. The doors are locked. The brakes are out. The steering barely works. Far ahead, he can see other cars hurtling into the abyss. How far they fall, he does not know. What they find at the bottom, he cannot imagine.

We make thousands of decisions daily. Some are trivial, others are massive. When making these choices, it can be easy to get caught up in methodically weighing all your options. While it feels like a sensible process, it can cause you to miss opportunities. Sometimes you just need to make the call.

“I worry that people will give up. My friend Pitt Hyde, in response to all this, told me, ‘We don’t need to give up, we need to double down.’ We need to double down to try and come together and set aside whatever differences we have and say, ‘This is our home.’ ” - Scott Morris

To attract and retain the best people, we must redesign jobs around a simple but powerful concept: love for the content of the work itself.