Employers

“There is some intriguing evidence that if you're an employer and you're hiring, You're better off choosing people who are at the top of their class regardless of where that class was situated, right? In other words, paying more attention to class rank than you…”

“And the fact that healthcare is tied to employers is a relic. It's a remnant of, I think, what is it, post-depression era. It shouldn't exist that way. I do not think employers should be involved, or needing to be involved, but that's where we are.”

“I mean, unmanaged grief in the workplace costs employers, you know, seventy-five billion dollars a year and up.”

“Employers grossly over-appraised the worth of face-to-face impressions. The anecdote to this is to underweight face-to-face impressions and overweight the applicant's Past track record.”

“What it turned out is that there were too many legal issues or even perceptions of legal issues with employers incentivizing their employees to not have diabetes anymore. And so we looked at a bunch of things, but just even a perception of it was adding too mu…”

“And what I hear is people say, oh, I can only take a month off or I can only take two months off because if you come back, people aren't going to hire you, but I think you can get a job. I don't think that's necessarily true. I think, you know, there, people a…”

“And I think we've already seen such a justification for this as being a place where employers have been Reducing positions by the scores, because there's a notion that these tools can do these jobs suitably and to a certain kind of degree of proficiency, which…”

“Employers, when they consider the things they purchase, it's a tough sell unless there's some strong ROI.”

“So actually that employee is effectively giving an interest-free Loan to their employer in, in a really funny roundabout way.”

“ICRA is a law that went into effect, ah, four years ago that makes it possible for the first time ever for employers to, instead of choosing all the benefits for their team, just give them tax-free dollars that they can spend the way that they want.”

“So I've always suggested that you should take pressure off of your employer by enforcing boundaries despite what they ask. Because if you succeed, they will give you more stuff. And then when you get that more stuff done, your reward will be more stuff.”

“Boundaries will only get enforced when you realize that your employer is incapable of returning Essentially, unconditional effort, and so that's what creates the mentality to hold back, and it gives you longer tenures.”

“My point is the expectations on the part of our employers are just going to go up as we become more tech enabled. So we're doing more, not necessarily being paid more. And many of us are going to reach the point where the quote unquote co-pilot actually should…”

“I think that employers are saying the, these students don't know how to do very well what they were taught and nothing they were taught is that relevant to what I want them to do.”

“So I think that I think that's gonna become much more of the norm where companies do their own testing.”

“Everyone who comes into a job interview or applies for a job and says, I'm a generalist. Stop, please. From someone who's interviewed hundreds of people in the last year, it's not doing you any service, even though that's what someone might need. It's not what…”

“A big move that a lot of people do is turn their current job into a contract job, which a lot of employers are a lot more open than people would think.”

“If somebody is underpaying our graduates, the model is we're going to invite them off of the campus.”

“There's probably nothing more lonely than being in a bad relationship or a bad marriage. Being lonely Has a sense of powerlessness attached to it. It's a sense you lack agency. It's about wanting to feel connected. Typically we think of loneliness as being wan…”

“This is from a trust study by Edelman trust barometer done globally. In this year alone, there has been a precipitous decline In people's trust for their governments, for the private sector at large, for NGO, and for media. But the one raise that we saw was pe…”

“Instead of getting paid by either of those entities up front, we want to get paid term over term as the students succeed. And so we've actually put all of our revenue at risk and said, we only want to get paid when the student is succeeding in school.”

“Employability is a pain that is, ah, felt really by the, ah, employer, and therefore the willingness to pay on part of the job seeker is limited because the job seeker is of the opinion that they've got a degree or a diploma and that's good enough, and often t…”

“They don't want people who've just learned a trade, who know how to assemble Ruby code today. And then when the framework gets updated next year, they're kind of lost. Or when the company makes a shift to a different framework, they don't know how to relearn.”

“Typically about 80% of that business is driven by a broker selling to an employer.”

“And, you know, the number of thousand employees used to be the boundary for employers to move to self-insured. That number's going lower and lower every year. The number of employers who are saying, hey, in this fully insured model, my carrier's not necessaril…”

“Well, no, it's closer to 200,000.”

“So you got to remember that these funds are comprised of both employers and unions, right? And they need two thirds agreement to make anything happen.”