Workplace Insight

JANUARY 3, 2025

The retail giant, which has strongly advocated for a return-to-office policy, recently had to pause its plans for thousands of staff upon realising it lacked sufficient workspace to accommodate five-day office weeks. This challenge mirrors one faced by Amazon in the United States.

Real Estate

Attendance Bot

JULY 18, 2025

Limited-Use Policy Best for: Retail, hospitality, administrative support, customer-facing roles This approach allows mobile phone use during breaks or in designated non-customer areas, but restricts it during active work periods. Emergency use is allowed only with manager approval.

Security

Vantage Circle

OCTOBER 30, 2024

According to Gallup's 2023 State of the Global Workplace report, only 23% of employees worldwide are engaged at work, leading to approximately $7.8 Another study by Gallup' points out that, organizations with effective feedback systems report up to 21% higher profitability, a powerful incentive to build robust feedback mechanisms.

Retail

Vantage Circle

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Widely used in appointment-driven industries like healthcare, retail, hospitality, fitness, and home services (e.g., Widely used in appointment-driven industries like healthcare, retail, hospitality, fitness, and home services (e.g., Customer Review “#1 frustration is pulling reports.”

Software

Attendance Bot

JUNE 13, 2025

In industries like retail, support, healthcare, and field services, smart rosters are not optional. However, when employee scheduling errors go unchecked, they can quietly drain thousands of dollars every quarter, without showing up in a clean line item on a budget report. They are essential.

Flexibility

Vantage Circle

MARCH 30, 2025

Retail Industry Focus: Zappos: Zappos fosters a culture of appreciation with a peer-to-peer recognition program. The platform also enables companies to review reports and improve their ESG efforts. These include both formal and informal recognition that celebrates outstanding performance and acknowledges employee contributions.

Government

Workplace Insight

JUNE 12, 2025

Almost half of all employees in professional and managerial roles now work hybrid, whereas those in so-called elementary occupations – such as retail assistants, cleaners and manual labourers – remain far less likely to have access to flexible working.

Flexibility

WELCOA

DECEMBER 23, 2024

A new report from the U.S. Factors That Influence Tobacco-Related Disparities The report explains how the social determinants of health play a role in tobacco use disparities. surgeon generals office confirms equal progress has not been made to reduce cigarette smoking and secondhand smoke exposure among all groups in the U.S.

Reporting

Vantage Circle

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Psychological Impact of Recognition on Employee Morale According to the report on R&R trends by AON, SHRM, and Vantage Circle , 3 in 4 companies are looking to leverage R&R programmes to drive behavioral change. Consider the case of a customer service representative at a large retail chain. So, let’s get started!

Creativity

Vantage Circle

DECEMBER 29, 2024

Recently, I was reading Amazon’s sustainability report , which highlighted that they were investing nearly $10 billion into employee benefits in 2023. Meanwhile, ADP reports that a single disengaged employee can cost a company $2,246 per year. Gallup estimates that the cost of disengagement drains the global economy of $8.8

Salary

Great Place to Work

JUNE 23, 2025

What can be learned from the Fortune 100 Best Companies The Fortune 100 Best is a remarkable list — representing a range of industries from tech and finance to retail and hospitality — and their example offers important lessons for leaders of any company. Check out our report on the best practices driving AI adoption and exploration.

Flexibility

Success

JULY 18, 2025

Amid rising prices, manufacturing disruptions and a fluctuating economy, one aspect of retail still seems to be thriving: the secondhand market. According to a 2025 resale report by ThredUP , the secondhand apparel market should reach $367 billion globally by 2029. is worth an estimated $50 billion, up 30% from 2023.

Retail

McKensey

JULY 30, 2025

People are tinkering with the middle management layer here, realigning a set of reports there. You could say the retail consumer goods sector is typically organized functionally, for example, but even there we’re seeing more scope for enterprise agile and more adoption of emergent models. Structure is a very powerful lever.

Leadership

McKensey

JULY 30, 2025

A Juniper Research report has forecast more than $362 billion in online payments fraud between 2023 and 2028. 3 TransUnion 2024 state of omnichannel fraud report , TransUnion, April 2, 2025. 3 TransUnion 2024 state of omnichannel fraud report , TransUnion, April 2, 2025.

Banking

Success

JUNE 16, 2025

Jennifer Johnson , founder of the Florida-based lifestyle fashion store True Fashionistas, has successfully used both types of validation methods in tandem when she was deciding on whether to add new assortment items to their retail store. “I I first did a SWOT analysis to see what our strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats were.

Problem-Solving

Success

JULY 8, 2025

Neil Saunders, an analyst at GlobalData Retail, said this sale “closes the book on a sad and troubled chapter for Dollar Tree.” The budget retail chains sinking—and the ones surging Once considered a powerful one-two punch in the discount retail space , the breakup raises a bigger question: Are massive budget chains losing their grip?

Retail

McKensey

JULY 9, 2025

Data for March and April 2025 might be incomplete due to reporting time lag. But traditional European asset managers can still grow in this market by employing existing retail distribution networks and focusing on manager selection and packaging. Novel investment themes may arise in the wake of the uncertainty.

Banking

Work Life

JUNE 28, 2025

The problem: family estrangement Gay and lesbian young adults are 86% more likely to report estrangement from their fathers than their straight counterparts, according to a 2022 National Institute of Health study , and a recent U.K. Illuminating these hidden financial systems is the first step toward bridging the wealth gap.

Healthcare

Great Place to Work

MARCH 7, 2025

According to Slack's 2023 State of Work report , there is a significant link between employee satisfaction and productivity. , theres also a clear business case: Increased productivity: When employees feel satisfied at work, they focus better and bring their full energy to tasks.

Flexibility

BMT Office Administration

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

It often involves reorganizing departments, teams, and reporting structures to improve organizational efficiency and communication. Therefore, the social media manager would report directly to the marketing department manager. Often, the team reports to the department head instead of creating in-department hierarchies.

Retail

Success

JULY 15, 2025

The law also requires companies to regularly report on their reserves and makes it illegal to mislead people about what the coins are or how safe they are. Retail giants like Amazon and Walmart are already planning to launch stablecoins for everyday consumer transactions.

Security

Vantage Circle

MARCH 28, 2025

Cons Some users report excessive alerts. Standout Features AI-powered recommendations for best-fit candidates Gamification and engagement tools to boost participation Mobile-friendly interface for easy referrals Advanced analytics and reporting Automated reward distribution and tracking Pros HR managers report an easy learning curve.

Software

Ask a Manager

JUNE 21, 2025

I need help with an issue at work I work for a major grocery retailer at one of their fuel centers The fuel center I work at is attached to one of their grocery stores There are only 3 employees working at the fuel center The hours of operation at the fuel center are 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. 7 days a week That means there is an opener from 6 a.m.

Retail

Insperity

DECEMBER 5, 2019

A reliable rule of thumb regarding workplace gift giving: Gifts should flow down the supervisory reporting line, not upward. Thus, a boss or manager may give presents to direct reports, and employees can laterally exchange gifts with each other. The gift card for a major retailer wrapped imaginatively can be a big hit with coworkers.

Purchasing

Insperity

DECEMBER 29, 2014

Using the same chain of reporting that is used for a harassment issue may be the best course of action, however follow your company’s handbook for complaint-resolution processes, which typically use the company’s organizational chart and chain of command. This gives you and the HR department points of discussion with the bully.

Retail

Work Life

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

When two of the most powerful brands in retail and packaged foods last month ousted their CEOs , it signaled corporate boards are more ready to toss top executives before activist investors tell them to act. Consumer packaged goods and retail chiefs to August 31 have held the top job for 7.7 The tenure for U.S.

Retail

Success

JULY 30, 2024

He told a reporter friend, who asked if there was a website to buy the shirts. He moved the queries to a Facebook group, and later to a website called Help A Reporter Out (HARO), in 2008. “I But first, he’d have to make some cash. He sold over 500 shirts in 6 hours and made $5,000. That is, until he got a call at 5 a.m.

Reporting

Insperity

JANUARY 16, 2020

Companies across the country are reporting the rise in job candidates’ ghosting employers. Consider mass-hiring events if you’re in a high-volume industry, like service or retail. Ghosting is a phenomenon more commonly seen in the dating world but fast becoming a problem for businesses. So, what is job ghosting?

Onboarding

Great Place to Work

DECEMBER 15, 2023

The retail industry, like so many others, is undergoing significant transformation. From changing consumer expectations to evolving market dynamics, all retailers face new challenges, including staffing shortages and high employee turnover rates. Despite this shifting landscape, the retail sector is experiencing growth.

Retail

Work Life

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The retail sector hasn’t been spared either, with Wayfair and eBay trimming headcount. But despite this steady drip of layoffs, the latest jobs report indicates that the labor market is still going strong. The Dow Jones estimate leading up to the jobs report had put the number closer to 185,000.)

Retail

Workplace Insight

JANUARY 10, 2023

percent, according to the report. Retail capital values declined 2.5 percent) and Retail Warehouses (-3.1 percent for the Retail sector in December, with Standard Shops reporting the highest rental value increase (0.3 percent for the Retail sector for the month. Retail capital values decreased 8.1

Retail

Insperity

MAY 3, 2018

Nearly 2 million American workers report having been victims of workplace violence each year, according to the U.S. It also provides specific advice for those types of companies most likely to experience violence, such as late-night retail establishments, healthcare businesses and those with delivery drivers.

Security

Workplace Insight

MARCH 13, 2024

The ReTurn Report is compiled by Remit Consulting each week. Before the pandemic, the same report indicated that the typical occupancy rate for an office tended to vary between 60 percent and 80 percent. The most recent report, to the week ending 8 March, showed average office occupancy hit 35.9

Retail

Insperity

JUNE 27, 2019

Information on more than 140 million Americans was stolen from Equifax, one of the nation’s largest credit reporting companies, in 2017. retailers, had up to 70 million customers’ data hacked in 2013. You may be familiar with high-profile, large-scale breaches and their impact. Target, one of the largest U.S.

Security

Work Life

MARCH 26, 2024

Other companies like UPS that have invested in childcare benefits have seen returns that range from 90% to as high as 425%, according to a new report by Reshma Saujani’s nonprofit, Moms First, which was produced in collaboration with Boston Consulting Group. “That investment to me is critical.” ”

Retail

Workplace Insight

APRIL 29, 2024

However, RICS reports that respondents to their surveys have formed the view (35 percent) that the market has “reached a floor” for the current cycle, or has at least “entered the early stages of an upturn” (38 percent). This represents the strongest reading for Central London prime office rents since Q1 2016,” says the report.

Retail

Workplace Insight

AUGUST 22, 2024

Investors are becoming increasingly selective in their acquisitions, with traditional sectors like office, retail, and industrial real estate still reporting annual declines in dealmaking across Europe, according to MSCI.

Real Estate