Consider it a weekly tax, but paid in mental energy, not money. A 2021 report by Acas estimated the cost of workplace conflict to UK employers at roughly £28.5 billion per year. For context, that is over £1,000 per employee.…
A person forms an initial judgement of trustworthiness from your face in 100 milliseconds. That is less time than it takes to blink. Janine Willis and Alexander Todorov’s study found the correlation between impressions formed in that time and those…
Over 347 billion emails are sent globally every day. The average professional spends 28% of their working life dealing with them. This is not a commentary on modern work; it is a fact of it. I know my own screen…
Your LinkedIn connection count is a vanity metric. Robin Dunbar’s research on human social capacity shows the brain can only maintain about 150 stable relationships. We pour roughly 60% of our social energy into just 15 people. A 2025 study…
You probably think you’d be a modern, supportive boss. Most people do. The issue is that we are generally bad at judging our own competence. In the Dunning–Kruger study, participants in the bottom quartile for skills like logic placed themselves…
You probably think you’d be a modern, supportive boss. Most people do. The issue is that we are generally bad at judging our own competence. In the Dunning–Kruger study, participants in the bottom quartile for skills like logic placed themselves…
I spent thirty minutes last Tuesday arranging the catering for an off-site workshop. The workshop was not my project. The organiser, a male colleague, thanked me for being “so helpful.” He will get credit for the workshop’s outcomes. My effort…
Sixty-one percent of managers say at least half the time they spend making decisions is ineffective. At a typical large company, that translates to about 530,000 wasted days per year. I read that figure from a McKinsey study and immediately…
Fifty-five percent of managers reported having to fire a recent graduate in the last year. The reason was almost never a lack of skill. It was a failure to understand how a workplace operates. According to a 2024 survey, the…
You have less time than you think. According to transition researcher Michael Watkins, it takes the average mid-level professional 6.2 months to reach the “breakeven point” — the moment you have contributed as much value to a company as you…