The Gift of Fluid Employees

This week's digest explores the CHRO as a growth executive, 25k tech layoffs in Jan, RTO policies masking poor management, AI and work, highlights from Microsoft's Future of Work Report, and more.

Lars Schmidt
January 30, 2024

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❶ One Big Thing

Last week, I had a conversation with a CEO concerned about the fact that their brand attracted employees who were only interested in getting the company’s logo on their resume and would leave after two years. They wanted to know how to address this problem.

They didn’t realize their problem was a gift they were lucky to have.

The days of golden retirement watches are long gone.

The global average employee tenure is 4.1 years. Less in high-demand sectors like technology.

You don’t own talent. You rent.

If you focus on maximizing the impact and mutual value while you have them, however long that is, you both win.

That’s one of the reasons I love LinkedIn’s Tour of Duty model.

Being a great place to be, and to be from, is a great place to be.

📍This Week’s Top Stories

The CHRO as Growth Executive. [read]
Nearly 25,000 tech workers were laid off in Jan 2024. Why? [read]
Are CEOs using RTO plans to mask poor management? [read]
Canva is here to help job seekers [read]
What’s going to happen with AI and Work? Futurist Amy Webb shares her take below.

✨ Workplace Innovation

Everyone has work predictions for 2024. I’ll take Josh Bersin’s. [read]
Passport optional. More American workers are being hired for remote roles overseas. [read]
Spotify continues to lead the way in culture openness [read]
Do we really need Charm School to relearn how to behave in the office? [read]
Highlights from Microsoft’s annual Future of Work report (below)

Microsoft released their annual Future of Work report and this time around it’s not about remote work, it’s about AI. (slide numbers in brackets)
- Knowledge workers with ChatGPT are 37% faster, 40% higher quality but ~20% less accurate. Simple UX solutions to solve this are… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
— Ben Tossell (@bentossell)
Jan 29, 2024

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👀 Eye Candy

Accenture shared this CEO view of top business growth drivers for the next three years. (hint: people)

🎧 Ear Candy

My pal Katelin Holloway thinks more people people need to be in VC. She’s right. She shares her thesis on the HR Heretics podcast below.

Katelin Holloway Thinks More HR People Need a VC Checkbook

Watch now | Get them front and center into check writing roles.

hrheretics.substack.com/p/katelin-holloway-thinks-more-hr-people

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