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Why Are Gen Z Shunning ‘Hustle Culture’ in Favor of Long-Term Jobs? Here Are Three Good Reasons
For decades, we’ve been told that the modern workplace is a playground of freedom and choice. Flexibility, agility and autonomy have become buzz words in an employment marketplace saturated with an endless choice of job opportunities.
But the reality for most workers, especially younger ones who have recently joined the job market, is that jobs vanish as quickly as they appear, benefits are slashed, exploitation is rife and career paths once paved with middle-class respectability have crumbled under the relentless march of automation and the ubiquity of the platform economy.
Read more: The Guardian
Despite Organizations Scrambling To Adapt Following the 2024 Election, Nearly 90 Percent of SMB Owners Surveyed Remain Optimistic for 2025
Fiverr International Ltd. announced findings from a survey assessing the state of the small-business ecosystem and how the recent 2024 U.S. General Election is shaping business owners’ decision-making for 2025 and beyond. The new research features insights and concerns from 1,001 U.S. small-business owners after the election to measure business sentiments for 2025. In addition to inflation (40 percent) and rising import costs (38 percent), businesses foresee access to talent (27 percent) as a predominant hurdle going forward.
Read more: Globe Newswire
BUSINESS SMARTS
Why Routines, Not Resolutions, Are the Secret To Long-Term Success
Every January, people around the world set ambitious New Year’s resolutions: This will be the year they run that marathon, write their screenplay or quit their jobs to launch their own business. And every year, most of those resolutions fail. Why? Because goals aren’t reached with just one big push. They’re incremental. As Will Durant wrote in The Story of Philosophy, “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."
Read more: Forbes
How To Revolutionize Your Self-Talk and Change Your Life For the Better
Words have tremendous power. The way we speak to ourselves matters greatly. We all have inner dialogues: We frequently ask ourselves questions and respond to them. How we answer our questions largely determines how happy and successful we are. But focusing on the questions we ask ourselves (instead of just the answers) is an even better way to influence and predict our happiness and success.
Read more: Entrepreneur
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