One company's story in trying to solve their retention problem. For them, the solution to keeping people from leaving was to embrace reality and support those leaving. Also, this kind of tactic has massive implications on your employer brand.

More and more businesses are looking to their own brand purpose to create a stronger brand foundation as everything seems to change every second around it. If your company is thinking about purpose (or you’re starting to spark those conversations), it might help to understand how purpose works and how businesses can leverage purpose strategically (also, companies don’t have purpose, people have purpose, and you’re in the people business, remember?).

The researchers show that even though chitchat is superficial, “it’s about building culture and collaboration.”

In the similar vein, you can be helping your people not just “survive” things, but finding ways to get better because of the crisis.

The new rules of talent management? Well, you have to figure out how to build culture while in isolation, how to convince HR/TA to look for talent outside the standard distances, how to use tech (duh), and how to take advantage of video as the ‘great equalizer.’