Disneyland character and parade department employees announced plans to unionize as part of the Actors' Equity Association, which already represents employees at Disney World. About 35,000 employees of the California theme park are already members of unions, with 1,700 employees not unionized.

Improve the chances of your top talent sticking around by creating a sense of belonging, encouraging them to think outside the box and leveraging AI in training to help them improve communication skills, writes Juan Betancourt, the CEO of Humantelligence. "Meeting each employee where they are will go a long way toward fostering the trust and belonging you need to execute your vision for the team," Betancourt notes.

There are several strategies to help remove potential stigmas surrounding career and technical education, Amy Heflin, senior manager of curriculum development at FlexPoint Education Cloud, writes in this blog post. Heflin emphasizes personalized teacher-student relationships, educating parents on CTE value through success stories and statistics and fostering CTE advocates among educators to reshape perceptions and demonstrate the broad benefits of CTE for students' future success.

In the words of business school professor Robert Sutton, downsizing companies have gone full "jargon monoxide" trying to avoid backlash on social media. Using buzzwords such as "involuntary career event" or "corporate outplacing" is doing more harm than good, Sutton opines.