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Our look at pressing problems and solutions for board directors.
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Weekly leadership messages from our CEO Gary Burnison, capturing the mood and the moment with storytelling and insights.
What Really Matters in an Interview
Korn Ferry CEO Gary Burnison highlights what job seekers must get across when they meet with potential employers.
The New Survival Strategy: More Meetings
As mid-career office workers strive to keep their jobs, they’re homing in on the one arena where human skills still reign supreme: meetings.
6 Ways to Handle Decision Fatigue
Managing all the back-and-forth business shifts going on right now can take its toll.
April 28, 2026
Sixty-one percent of employees are ‘languishing’ as a tough job market and looming tech brings a loss in purpose.
Open floor plans correlate with 67% higher incidence of bullying, according to a new study. What’s an office manager to do?
Two in five white collar workers who changed jobs at year-end took pay cuts of more than 10%. After the big raises of the past, are firms seeking a ‘salary recovery?’
April 24, 2026
New research suggests workers are starting weekends sooner and sooner. Should leaders be frustrated?
April 23, 2026
In such a tough job market, more workers are taking any job they can find—regardless of their interest in it. How that can corrode a firm’s culture and mission.
April 22, 2026
With their pick of candidates, some firms are asking for Sunday interviews or extending ‘work trials.’ What’s next?
May 8, 2023
More and more companies are turning to subleasing to cut costs and fill unused office space. But sharing space could come at a price.
May 7, 2023
Unable to give big raises, more companies are allowing job-title changes. But asking for one is a risky business.
May 2, 2023
There’s a large pool of recently let-go professionals that firms may want to consider. But that has challenges of its own.
A Korn Ferry survey finds six in ten professionals say coworkers are ruder than before. But in the hybrid-worker era, rudeness is not always easy to define.
Even in a slowing economy, hiring continues. But so does initial scrutiny of how your perform.
Artificial intelligence hasn’t taken over organizations just yet. These 3 areas hint at what could be next for everyone else.
April 25, 2023
Instead of looking for new roles, more workers in this economy are trying to find ways to make their current job work.
With email and Zoom use rising, firm leaders say phone use for even critical operations is dropping off. How much is
What’s changed recently that has made some CEOs more blunt with their own employees.
April 24, 2023
Prioritizing how many hours employees work—and where they work—could lead to bad business decisions, says best-selling author Daniel Goleman.
With employee raises low this year, some firms are looking for creative ways to reward workers. But do such substitutes work?
April 21, 2023
Why the hottest group of new job candidates might be people who just got laid off. Plus, rude work behavior is on the rise.
