Leaders can help their remote team work more efficiently by helping them set boundaries around their work and off time, providing asynchronous tasks, not tracking hours of salaried workers and modeling successful behaviors, writes Rashan Dixon, a senior business systems analyst at Microsoft. "If you send out emails at 9 p.m., your direct reports will assume they need to do likewise," Dixon writes.

Stories are effective when they connect to our emotions, can be powerfully stated in a sentence and convey a shared meaning and purpose, writes Root Inc. President Rich Berens. "There's a reason we don't take a PowerPoint presentation to our kids at bedtime, and it's because this method of sharing information almost always lacks emotion and meaning," Berens writes.

Melissa Barra, a Sleep Number executive, has split her time between the company's hometown of Minneapolis and Atlanta, where her husband's job is based, for more than four years, a setup that didn't hamper Barra's chances of earning a promotion in 2020. Barra and female leaders from other companies, including General Mills, Hormel Foods and nVent, talk about the way corporate America has adjusted to hybrid working arrangements during the pandemic as well as the benefits and potential drawbacks for women on the corporate ladder.

Departing employees can be valuable resources for an organization, and some might eventually seek new employment opportunities with the firm. For those reasons, it's important to implement an effective off-boarding procedure and consider developing an alumni program, writes Rebecca Zucker of Next Step Partners.

Almost half of Generation Z employees and 33% of millennials are so against the idea of having to leave their pets at home that they'd rather quit if made to come back to the office, according to a Banfield Pet Hospital survey. Agencies including Terri & Sandy, Periscope, Publicis Imagine, McKinney and Wongdoody share how they are retaining talent with pet perks such as allowing dogs in the office.

A report by Aon indicates that employers expanded their available voluntary benefits by 41% from 2021 to 2022, driven in large part by the need to recruit and retain staff, as well as workers' interest in supplemental health coverage. The types of voluntary benefits that saw the greatest increases over the study period were critical illness, accident, hospital indemnity, permanent life and student loan assistance.

In the new trailer for "Lightyear," an origin story that's part of the "Toy Story" franchise, we find out that the astronaut protagonist was sent 62 years into the future after a test flight that went wrong and has to deal with the new realities of that trip -- as well as an old, familiar nemesis.