Johnny C. Taylor Jr. tackles your human resources questions as part of a series for USA TODAY. Taylor is president and CEO of the Society for Human Resource Management, the world's largest HR ...

Workers spend almost four hours per day on average communicating through email, instant messaging, and video or phone calls, according to a 2023 survey from Zoom. Alison Wood Brooks, author of Talk: ...

Nearly every day you have to have hard conversations at work. Maybe it’s pushing back on your manager’s unrealistic deadline. Perhaps it’s confronting a colleague who consistently interrupts you in ...

Have you ever worked in a place where everyone knows exactly what's draining their energy and hampering performance, but no one feels safe enough to talk about it openly? These unspoken challenges—the ...

In the modern office, fostering a friendly and open environment is important. But there’s a fine line between being a good colleague and oversharing. Etiquette experts agree that some topics are best ...