On July 10, 2024, the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), the world’s largest HR professional society, published a LinkedIn post about changing its approach to inclusion and diversity. The SHRM announcement proclaimed that the organization would immediately adopt “the acronym ‘I&D’ instead of ‘IE&D,’” removing the E for equity.…
Since 2020, about 25% of all US workers are hybrid workers, with about 15% working fully from home. What could explain this ongoing trend in remote work? Aside from evidence for increased productivity and well-being, personality characteristics can help explain work-from-home preferences. On episode 118 of The Science of Personality, cohosts Ryne Sherman, PhD, and Blake Loepp spoke…
A time management coach explains that often it’s not the difficulty of a task that leads to procrastination, it’s the emotions connected to the task. You can feel the muscles between your shoulder blades tense up and your stomach feels a bit queasy. Is that a headache coming on? You know you really should do that task that’s collecting cobwebs on your to-do list.…
Niceness isn’t always as nice as it seems. As many organizations with a nice corporate culture are finding out, having a reputation for niceness can carry some challenges. A nice culture sometimes focuses on getting along to the detriment of delivering results. Recently on The Science of Personality, cohosts Ryne Sherman, PhD, and Blake Loepp discussed how a nice…
There are certain qualities that humans have that can make them irreplaceable, says this author. If you’re worried about being replaced by a bot, you aren’t alone. According to a study from EY, three-quarters of workers are concerned that AI will make jobs obsolete, and about two-thirds are worried that their jobs specifically will be eliminated. While it’s…
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