Exact Staff Insight Blogs

2.5 minute read  |  The $0 employee benefit we rarely talk about Here’s a strange question for your next employee engagement survey. “How often do you laugh at work?” Not: Are you satisfied with your compensation? Not: Do you understand our mission? Not: Would you recommend us as an employer? Just: Do you ever laugh…

3 minute read  |  The more intelligent machines become, the more valuable being human may become AI can write your email. Create your presentation. Summarize the meeting. Analyze data. Generate a hundred ideas before you’ve finished your coffee. So here’s a question we aren’t asking nearly enough. If everyone eventually has access to great AI,…

3 minute read  |  What if your company’s next great idea is already normal somewhere else? We travel the world and bring home wine, photographs, recipes, and souvenirs. Maybe we should start bringing home workplace ideas too. There is no single “best” work culture, and reducing countries to stereotypes is both inaccurate and unhelpful. But…

2.5 minute read  |  The ordinary jobs behind extraordinary careers Before the impressive titles, corner offices, awards and bank accounts, a surprising number of extraordinarily successful people had remarkably ordinary jobs. The founder of one of the world’s largest brokerage firms picked and bagged walnuts as a teenager. A chairman of a global food and…

Must Read: Change is the only constant. Is your workforce built for it? The habits separating companies that adapt from those that stall out.

Your biggest liability might not be on the balance sheet. It’s on the org chart. Workforce risks that quietly drain profit before leaders even notice.

The best-funded companies don’t always win the growth race. The best-staffed ones do. Here are the workforce moves that turn hiring into a real competitive edge.

Resumes can’t tell you how someone thinks under pressure. These interview signals can. Here’s what to listen for before you make your next hire.

3 minute read  |  For leaders rethinking how they schedule peak performance Walk into most companies and the assumption is the same. Mornings are when work happens. Strategic thinking gets scheduled at 9am because that is supposedly when people are sharp. Performance is implicitly linked to how early someone arrives and how alert they look…

3.5 minute read  |  For HR leaders and managers communicating across generations If your internal communications still look the way they did five years ago, you have a problem. Roughly a third of your workforce is now between 14 and 29. That generation, Gen Z, processes information fundamentally differently than the ones that came before.…