Sentence examples for workplace trends from inspiring English sources
Still, Erin Brownfield, a spokeswoman for the Families and Work Institute in Manhattan, said the increase in earlier traffic was consistent with several other workplace trends.
"The vast majority of organizations don't have policies in place," said Jennifer Schramm, a workplace trends and forecasting manager at the Society for Human Resource Management in Washington.
Its corporate headquarters, housed in a refurbished factory, is a laboratory of workplace trends, with open floor plans and glass-sheathed work pods where people recline with their laptops or hover at standing desks.
One of the key workplace trends of the 21st century has been the collapse of the corporate ladder, whereby loyal employees climbed towards the higher echelons of management one promotion at a time.
My email contacts (venture capitalists, startup founders, bloggers) are a skewed and terrible sample (if someone has friends they could introduce me to, that would be great), but the tech world shapes workplace trends across industries and across the world.
Ten years ago, the Bureau of National Affairs, a private company that monitors workplace trends, estimated the cost of domestic violence in lost output at $3 billion to $5 billion a year.
If you log on to the office network with a smartphone, or if you carry a laptop between work and home (a workplace trend known as B.Y.O.D., for "bring your own device," although I heard security people say that it means "bring your own disaster"), you make it very easy for intruders to enter the office network.
"It feels claustrophobic to me," he laughs, but then outlines why a new workplace trend requires more than headphones.
Besides pregnancy discrimination -- which EEOC recently made an enforcement priority -- there's another troubling workplace trend: discriminating against anyone caring for a family member.
"Men are now, more than ever before, aware of how their appearance affects how they're perceived in the workplace," says trend tracker Robert DiMauro, co-founder and editor-in-chief of the fashion site Zoomlookbook.com.com
One of the trends, "Workplace Wellness," affects most industries where people physically come to work.
