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The Workforce Institute is pleased to officially welcome two new advisory board members — Dr. Jessica Kriegel and Enrique Rubio — as well as Dr. Jarik Conrad as our new executive director.

We’re excited to deliver another new feature from the UKG Workforce Institute. Introducing “HR Hot Takes,” a weekly video series available exclusively on our LinkedIn page!

This month for The Workforce Institute Weigh-In, members of our advisory board discuss how managers can support employees’ mental health at work.

Welcome to The Workforce Institute’s new feature, Get to Know, designed to help our readers get better acquainted with our advisory board of industry experts. To premiere our series, we include a conversation with Laurie Ruettimann. You’ll learn how she went from working in HR surrounded by candy to hosting the popular Punk Rock HR podcast. Plus, find out Laurie’s non-HR dream job. Without further ado, here’s Laurie!

After a brief timeout, The Workforce Institute’s long-running Super Bowl survey returns with a look at how the big game impacts employee absenteeism in the U.S. workplace. We’ve covered this topic in depth since 2005, because we want to help organizations avoid being blindsided by the results.

Check out the results from our new study — Mental Health at Work: Managers and Money — for recommendations on building empathy, authenticity, active listening, and a growth mindset to create a greater sense of belonging, inclusion, and positive mental health in the workplace.

Here’s a look at anything you might have missed from January 2023 at The Workforce Institute. And keep it here throughout the coming year for new features, global research, and more of the expert analysis and insights you’ve come to expect from us.

Today’s post comes to us from The Workforce Institute advisory board member David Creelman, CEO of Creelman Research, and it features more of his thoughts on the impacts of artificial intelligence.

With a labor shortage that is not going away for at least the next decade, the battle to hire and retain talent has been in the headlines every day. Everyone has an opinion about why we have this shortage, why employees leave their jobs, who is to blame, and what we should do about it. Almost everyone is wrong.

This month, The Workforce Institute Weigh-In discusses employee recognition. Members of our advisory board provide perspectives on the best ways to recognize top talent. Great minds think alike, as many board members offered similar takes on the best ways to reward high performers, as well as highlighted the importance of getting to know your employees as people with individual preferences.