How Many Weekends (& Weekend Days) Are In A Year?

You’re here to know how many weekends (and weekend days) occur in a year. On average, one can count on 52 weekends and 104 weekend days in a given year. However, this can be affected by leap years and which day of the week January 1 falls on. Accurate counting of work days and weekend days is essential for various operational purposes in your business,…

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32 Programs To Strengthen Remote Work Culture

You’ve see PLENTY of advice about how to build a remote company culture. But most of the articles I see offer intangible and esoteric advice, like “embrace transparency.” For me personally, I can’t do anything with that. It’s too hard to read those and then implement something that we can actually do each day, week, or month to improve the culture. Here’s my idea: 🛑 …

5 Team Meeting Agenda Templates

This is part of our series on meeting agenda templates. You can edit these team meeting agendas in Google Docs or Word or print them out.  Meeting Agenda Templates > Team Meeting Agendas A “team meeting” could mean just about anything: your full team, your full company, your department, or a team dedicated to a certain project. Since it’s such an amorphous term, I built…

Leadership Meeting Agenda Template

This is part of our series on meeting agenda templates. You can edit this leadership meeting agenda in Google Docs or Word or print it out.  Meeting Agenda Templates > Leadership Meeting Agendas > Leadership Meeting Template Leadership meetings (or management meetings) align the heads of each department on the key numbers, issues, and strategies within the company. They serve as a forum for analysis,…

How To Prepare For A Skip Level Meeting (+ Questions)

Access the free agenda in Docs | Download all 50 for $47 This is part of our series on meeting agenda templates. You can edit this skip-level meeting agenda in Google Docs or Word or print them out.  Meeting Agenda Templates > 1:1 Meeting Agendas > Skip-Level Meeting Agenda When an employee has a meeting with his manager’s manager, it’s called a skip-level meeting. The…

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Report: Ford Quietly Issues New Return To Office Policy

I track the Fortune 100’s return to office policies here. As a result, I can see all of the Google search terms that bring people to my report. In the last few days, Google searches for “Ford return to office” spiked. This is a telltale sign that a new internal RTO policy has been released. This time, it has yet to be reported in mainstream…

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John Deere CEO Calls Employees Back To The Office

Rumors have started circling on forums this week. John May, the CEO of John Deere, sent out an email calling all employees back to the office four days per week starting in March. I reached out to some people at John Deere, but have not heard back. Although the rumors haven’t been confirmed by anyone at John Deere yet, here’s what I know so far….

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Bank Of America Threatens Staff To RTO (Jan 2024)

Bank of America returned to the office on June 1, 2022 with the expectation for all employees to show up full time (five days per week). Bank of America leadership has taken a pro-office stance with little flexibility for remote work. Managers have provided cupcakes, staff lunches, and more perks to entice employees back to the office (which allows us to assume the employee sentiment…

100 Companies With Unlimited PTO

We’ve scoured the digital earth to find all of the unlimited PTO companies that publicly share their vacation policies.  Why? According to one study by the World Health Organization (and shared in Forbes), taking time off from work could literally save your life. The study found that working longer hours (55+ per week) without extended breaks is tied to an increased risk of heart disease or…