Category: Employee Experience

What Is Self-Actualization? The Key to Growth, Fulfillment, and Productivity at Work

Work used to be a transaction: effort for income. Now, that isn’t enough. People want to grow, take steps that matter, and see their ideas change outcomes. That search is what self-actualization is about. It’s when work stops feeling like...

The Price of Doing Business or £32 Billion in Frankenstack Waste? Freshworks Investigates The Cost of Complexity

As a business software user, glued to a laptop, there’s always a sneaking suspicion that software vendors, especially in the SaaS era, endlessly push new services and concepts. Features that many companies and their workers don’t need, creating complexity. That’s often...

HR Leaders Plan a Tech Overhaul as Automation Becomes a 2026 Priority

By the end of next year, a lot of HR departments will look very different — or at least that’s the plan. Paycom’s new research shows that 43% of HR professionals want to put technology upgrades at the top of their...

Over Half of Employees Download Apps Without IT Approval

Not long ago, security teams could see and control almost every tool used inside their company. Fast forward to today, and employees are their own tech departments, downloading apps, testing AI tools, and linking accounts in ways IT never signed...

U.S. Employees Say Workplace Changes Are Creating More Stress Than Progress

Change is meant to help companies evolve. However, when it’s constant, messy, and poorly managed, it starts to wear people down. According to Eagle Hill Consulting’s latest Change Management Survey, while 63% of U.S. employees faced some kind of workplace change...

Team Building Activities for Work: How to Strengthen Employee Experience, Connection, and Performance

A few years back, team lunches just happened. People talked in the hallway without thinking about it. Now you have to plan it. Hybrid work didn’t ruin connection, but it did make it something you have to look after. When you...

When Busyness Isn’t Progress: What Is Fauxductivity?

In many offices, and increasingly, in home offices too, there’s a familiar rhythm to modern work. People dart between meetings, reply to messages the moment they land, and stay visible online long after official hours. On paper, it appears to...

Why a Good Leave Experience Keeps Employees Loyal

It turns out that what happens when employees step away from work may shape how long they decide to stay. A new report from Guardian Life Insurance Company of America suggests that a positive employee leave experience is closely related...

Companies Are Pushing AI but Few Employees Know How to Use It

AI is showing up in offices faster than ever, but most people at work don’t feel ready to use it well. Even if they are, many of them admit they aren’t leveraging the tools to their full potential. A recent study...

Employers and Patients Want Transparency and Better Tech From Healthcare

Both employers and patients are running out of patience with healthcare. The latest study from Zelis shows they’re asking for the same things: clear prices, simpler tools, and technology that works the way it should. The report, The State of the...