When Work Becomes a Transaction, People Stop Showing Up
A transactional work culture doesn’t reward engagement, it rewards compliance, and it’s quietly costing you your best people. Hit your number, get your bonus. Miss it, get a talking…
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Culture Insights
Research, commentary, and big-picture perspective on the evolving workplace. Explore culture trends, employee engagement data, and thought leadership on how teams thrive today and in the future.
Employee Survey Fatigue Isn’t the Problem. Survey Friction Is.
The real problem isn’t employee survey fatigue. It’s survey friction. If your engagement survey takes 20+ minutes, lives in an email or employee portal no one logs into…
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Pride Month Engagement Ideas for Work
June is Pride Month! This is a meaningful opportunity to create moments of reflection, appreciation, and connection in the workplace, honoring LGBTQIA+ history, culture, and…
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How AI Is Affecting Company Culture (And What HR Can Do About It)
Since the beginning of 2026, I’ve been speaking with HR and People teams about AI initiatives at work. The sentiments…
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Employee Engagement Statistics 2026: What the Data Tells Us
For the first time since Gallup began tracking workforce wellbeing in 2009, more U.S.
Learn MoreMentorship Program Best Practices: Tips That Actually Work
Mentorship & Development What Great Mentors Actually Do (And Where Most Mentorship Programs Get It Wrong) Most workplace mentorship programs are well-intentioned but under-engineered. A mentor gets…
Learn MoreEngagement Ideas for Women’s History Month
Thoughtful Ways to Celebrate, Learn, and Connect March is Women’s History Month! This is a meaningful opportunity to create moments of reflection, appreciation, and connection in the workplace —…
Learn MoreSeeing Everyone Is the Real Work of Employee Recognition
Employee Appreciation Day is coming up, and HR and People Ops teams are already feeling the pressure. You are thinking about the right gift. The…
Learn MoreThe 5 Languages of Appreciation at Work (And One We Don’t Talk About Enough)
Employee appreciation sounds deceptively simple: say thank you, recognize great work, celebrate wins, don’t be a jerk. But if you’ve ever rolled out recognition and felt like it didn’t…
Learn MoreBeyond the “Great Job” Email: Why Your Culture Needs Physical Artifacts of Appreciation
In the modern workplace, we are drowning in digital “pats on the back.” We have Slack emojis, LinkedIn recommendations, and the occasional “Kudos” in a Zoom meeting. But when…
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Scott Wolfe
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Former startup founder with 20+ years building high-performance in-person, hybrid, and remote teams.…
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Seasoned HR leader with more than a decade of experience transforming organizations through…
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Madeline Chizmar is Co-Founder of CultureBot and co-founder of Brightspot People. With a…
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