An HR executive just told me his company raised their starting pay for all jobs because their main plant was surrounded by Amazon sites. That sentence is pretty standard.

The report is in. Microsoft has released “The New Future of Work, Research from Microsoft Into the Pandemic’s Impact on Work Practices”. All 65 pages of it. Here are three leap-out parts for me...

"I totally get what you mean when you say what matters is what employees talk about over dinner. My husband and I work for the same company though he works in a different division and a different location. Each night he complains to me about his boss over dinner. At some point I switched from being an HR person to being his wife, and I asked when he was going to quit. He said he knew the date, and during his exit interview he wouldn’t say a thing, just wanted to get out."