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Data-driven analysis and research on career trends and workplace dynamics.

A group of diverse office employees looking disengaged in a dimly lit office, with a downward trending graph symbolizing the collapse of employee engagement.

What is employee engagement and why is it collapsing globally?

Global employee engagement fell to 20% in 2025, marking its lowest level since 2020, according to Gallup .

Marcus Ellery· May 29· 3 min
Diverse employees collaborating in a bright, modern office, symbolizing positive employee experience and strong retention.

What are key employee experience components and why do they matter for retention?

Doubling the percentage of employees who strongly connect their job to an organization's purpose is associated with a 34% reduction in absenteeism, a 41% reduction in safety incidents, and a 19% impro

Marcus Ellery· May 19· 4 min
Diverse professionals collaborating and mentoring, illustrating internal mobility and career growth within a company.

How Skills-Based Talent Development Drives Internal Mobility

For mid-market organizations with 1,000 employees and a 15% annual turnover rate, the cost of employee departures can reach $2.

Marcus Ellery· May 15· 3 min
Diverse professionals analyzing data charts and infographics, symbolizing informed career planning for the future.

What labor market data key metrics for career planning in 2026?

The median advertised salary in King County slipped to $88,320 per year between March and April 2026, even as the unemployment rate fell to 4.

Marcus Ellery· May 14· 3 min
Diverse professionals collaborating and learning in a futuristic office, adapting skills for career fluidity and future job market demands.

How to Adapt Skills for Career Fluidity by 2025

By 2025, half of all employees globally will require significant reskilling just to keep pace with new technology adoption, according to PMC .

Marcus Ellery· May 14· 3 min
A diverse team of recruiters working efficiently with advanced technology to manage a high volume of candidate applications in a modern office setting.

What are Recruitment Effectiveness Metrics and Why Do They Matter?

Between 2022 and 2025, the average recruiter saw their annual application load skyrocket by 412%, coinciding with a 56% reduction in recruiters per organization, according to Greenhouse .

Nathaniel Brooks· May 13· 4 min
Holographic AI interface in a futuristic HR office displaying candidate profiles with subtle bias indicators.

What are ethical AI principles in HR and recruitment 2026?

In a recent University of Washington study, state-of-the-art large language models favored white-associated names 85% of the time when ranking resumes, while never preferring Black male-associated nam

Marcus Ellery· May 12· 4 min
A split image contrasting human recruiters with AI algorithms, highlighting the ongoing debate about bias in AI-powered recruitment processes.

Why Recruiters Still Lean on Human Intuition Despite AI Screening

A major company's AI resume screener once downgraded candidates for mentioning "softball," a common women's hobby, while favoring "baseball" due to its training on existing employee data, according to

Marcus Ellery· May 2· 2 min
A lone supermanager figure stands amidst a largely empty, modern office, symbolizing the 'Great Flattening' trend and the importance of effective leadership in corporate restructuring.

What is the Great Flattening and why do supermanagers matter?

During the first half of 2024, managers made up 29% of all layoffs at big tech companies, signaling a dramatic shift in corporate structure, according to gpac .

Marcus Ellery· Apr 29· 3 min
Diverse employees in a bright, modern office, symbolizing a thriving and productive workplace culture and business success.

Great Place to Work Certification Boosts Business Impact Beyond Retention

Companies certified by Great Place To Work boast a staggering 51% higher employee retention rate compared to the average U.

Marcus Ellery· Apr 25· 2 min
Futuristic cityscape illustrating the integration of AI and hybrid work in employee engagement software, with digital networks connecting people.

AI and Hybrid Work Reshape Employee Engagement Software Market

LumApps has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Comeen, a workplace experience platform, signaling a major shift in how companies manage hybrid work.

Marcus Ellery· Apr 22· 2 min
A manager actively engaging with a diverse team, fostering employee engagement through psychological drivers like competence, autonomy, and relatedness in a positive office environment.

What Are the Psychological Drivers of Employee Engagement?

Managers drive 70% of team-level engagement variance, a factor linked to an 81% difference in absenteeism between top and bottom quartile teams ( Gallup ).

Marcus Ellery· Apr 21· 3 min
A split image contrasting a focused, quietly ambitious employee with the chaotic noise of media narratives surrounding the quiet quitting myth.

Quiet Ambition vs. The Quiet Quitting Myth

Less than 2% of employees actually fit the description of 'quiet quitting' based on Culture Amp's extensive data.

Marcus Ellery· Apr 12· 4 min