Kohl’s appoints Tom Kingsbury (70) as its new Chief Executive Officer. Kingsbury had been interim CEO since December 2, 2022 when Michelle Gass left the company to join Levi Straus & Co. Kingsbury has more than 40 years of retail industry experience. He was president and CEO of Burlington Stores...

Conferma Pay appoints Square and Mastercard veteran Jason Lalor as its new Chief Executive Officer. The appointment follows Sabre’s acquisition of Conferma Pay in August 2022. Prior to joining Conferma Pay, Jason Lalor served as chief executive of Square’s European business, headquartered in Dublin. Before that, he spent six years...

Carlyle Group’s new chief executive officer Harvey M. Schwartz stands to make more than $180 million over the next 5 years, a package that would make him one of Wall Street’s highest-paid executives. He will also earn a $1 million annual base salary and be eligible for bonuses of up...

Employers are out of touch with employee expectations. Well, stop the press.  I’m fairly sure that this has been going on since the industrial revolution.  Of course they are – there’s a natural disconnect between senior executive priorities and the priorities of the workforce.  In fact, their roles, reporting lines...

As part of ongoing cost-cutting measures under new owner and CEO Elon Musk, Twitter is shutting down its Seattle offices and Singapore offices, instructing employees to work remotely. That’s despite Musk earlier claiming that remote workers are only “pretending to work” and banning remote work at Twitter upon taking it...

Making decisions is something we have to deal with on a daily basis in every situation. The decision-making process becomes more complicated when we have a variety of options to choose from. There is also the possibility that our irrational human trait is influenced by the way an information is...

Every year, the world’s prominent English-language dictionaries add anywhere from a few hundred to 1,000 “neologisms”—newly coined words or phrases—to their pages. For Merriam-Webster and Oxford, it’s an exhaustive process that can involve tracking words from sometimes obscure uses into the mass-market national, and even global, lexicon.  These arrivals can...

Professionalism is open to interpretation — to an extent. After all, more than a few industries abide by different norms. For instance, you might see tattoos and dyed hair in creative spaces, but not in a sector like law or healthcare. Professionalism at work depends on your industry, your company's...

Quiet quitting has impacted employers in recent years as employees challenge the inequalities and inadequacies of workplaces worldwide. Climate quitting is another movement with similar inspirations, catalyzed by growing awareness of the climate crisis and a global need to make sweeping and immediate societal changes. If employers don’t address these...