Samantha Gross

By Samantha Gross The culture around work is shifting. Despite rising economic uncertainty, the Great Resignation — and the pandemic that sparked it — are still reverberating through companies of every shape and size. Employees everywhere are…

Hoping to get approved for medical care? Land a job interview? Obtain a home loan? Qualify for a governmental program? Chances are your fate will be determined by an algorithm — a mathematical formulation that you will never get to see and that you…

This has been an eventful few years for employer branding, to put it mildly. With the labor market shifting under our feet — and candidate expectations constantly changing — it can feel like a struggle to keep up. That’s why it’s more important than…

With the Great Resignation underway, all eyes are on employer brand professionals, who are facing more pressures — and accessing more company resources — than ever before. As you navigate this increasingly competitive landscape, it’s essential to…

The talent landscape has undergone such a significant shift over the last 19 months that it’s easy to think the current upheaval and the looming Great Resignation are COVID-era problems. But the reality is, we are undergoing a massive workforce…

Despite all the griping about Zoom fatigue and pajama-bottom life, it seems clear that remote and hybrid work is the way of the future. With 58% of workers saying they’d start looking for a new job if they weren’t allowed to continue working…

Every time Andrew Lehren walks into his investigative journalism class, the intensive capstone course he teaches to students in their final semester at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, he sets out to impart the skills he wishes he…

For most companies, successful mergers and acquisitions center around aspiration: the new channels to be opened, the new revenue streams to be developed, the new efficiencies to be gained. All too often, real-life challenges get in the way of these…

With the new year just a few months away, HR professionals everywhere are fleshing out their 2022 Employer Brand Plan and getting ready to once again make the case for the resources they need to enhance employee experience, strengthen culture, retain…

With job openings and recruitment marketing efforts at a record high and key indicators pointing to a looming Great Resignation, employers are facing a competitive labor market unlike any we’ve seen before. For job candidates, the experience of the…

For many of us, the last year has been, frankly, awful. In business and in our personal lives, the pandemic presented challenges that at times felt too heavy to bear. No matter how lucky, protected and safe we managed to stay, no individual — and no…

You may have heard the whispers: that as COVID-19 recovery takes shape, business leaders in every sector are fearful of an impending Great Resignation, one that could see as many as one in four workers quit their jobs. It’s an alarming notion,…

At first glance, sleep safety for your infant seems like it should be straightforward. The American Academy of Pediatrics issues safe sleep recommendations, and most of us understand that “back is best” and that the adorable blanket your best friend…

It seems like there’s a new recall every day — whether it’s for strollers or spinach — and it’s enough to make any parent or parent-to-be nervous. Is the world your little one is entering really that dangerous?There’s good news: It isn’t so much that…

After a BBC article highlighting the decades-old Finnish practice of providing moms-to-be with a sleep-safe box went viral in 2013, companies began popping up to take advantage of the interest. Over the last year or so, local governments in New…

In theory, it’s illegal for your boss to discriminate against you because you’re pregnant. But in practice, there can be a number of hurdles standing in the way of a woman who feels she’s been mistreated by her employer. Louisiana resident Eryon Luke…

More than half of the nation’s rural counties have no hospital maternity wards, placing pregnant women at risk, according to a new report. An article published this week by Reuters paints a bleak picture of the risks faced by moms-to-be as a growing…

Where do babies come from? It’s a question even our littlest humans feel compelled to ask. And it turns out that as recently as 1875, absolutely no one knew the answer. Now a new book, The Seeds of Life, by Edward Dolnick, is shining light on the…

Residents of Washington state will be able to take at least 12 weeks of paid leave after the birth or adoption of a child under a new law signed this week by Governor Jay Inslee, making Washington the state with perhaps the most generous paid leave…

Parents in France will be legally required to vaccinate their children against 11 diseases beginning in 2018, the country’s prime minister has announced. French children were already required by law to be vaccinated against diphtheria, tetanus and…