New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has announced that all private-sector employers in the city must require their workers to be vaccinated against COVID-19, a move affecting around 184,000 businesses. The mandate will take effect Dec. 27, and the city will publish rules on Dec. 15.

Lauren Sak, Intersection's senior marketing director, discusses the increased use of out-of-home media as an employee recruiting tool amid the Great Resignation, the primary business categories tapping into the trend and how efforts drive online job searches. "Reaching people where they are -- in their neighborhoods -- is a great way to stand out in the oversaturated and highly competitive job market of today," Sak says.

Employers can prevent burnout among remote workers by following 14 best practices, writes Gleb Tsipursky, CEO of Disaster Avoidance Experts. These practices include identifying virtual working challenges, educating employees about burnout warning signs, implementing digital co-working and creating ways for workers to connect meaningfully with each other.

Employers should keep an eye on five major factors and trends expected to influence their staff members' financial health in 2022. Emergency savings, changes in cash flow, voluntary benefits, major life events and retirement savings are the elements that will have an impact.

Poor communication, lack of clarity and difficulty managing conflict are three universal problems for leaders, but hybrid and remote work present those challenges in different ways, Marlene Chism writes. Chism covers each area and offers guidance for leaders to improve their management rather than blame hybrid work.

Burnout.

It’s a thing. It happens to remote workers, on-site workers and those in hybrid environments. It happens to guys driving trucks and to photographers shooting youth sports. It happens to mothers ferrying kids around town. It happens to pastors who believe in the purpose of their mission. It happens to editors who love their readers and their work.

Burnout happens to everyone. Environment can contribute but at the end of the day, work causes burnout, even when we enjoy what we do. The monotony of the daily grind just wears on us.

I thought about that today as I read the stories about employee morale, remote environments and hybrid leadership. All of these stories, in some way, are concerned with how to keep employees engaged in their work, as a way to stave off burnout.

My management experience has taught me that there’s no one-size-fits-all way to do this. There are principles to follow -- like routine check-ins -- but at the end of the day, engagement is personal. It happens on the human level. For some, it’s being present in person, at the office or workplace. For others, it’s having the freedom to work from home. For still others -- like my friend, Tyrone, a truck driver -- it’s being able to work independently. And then there’s me -- a combination of all three.

Engagement is like the perfect pair of jeans. Not every style fits every person. Smart employers let workers find the fit that works best for them (within reasonable parameters) and support that. And when you do that, you strike a blow at burnout.

Thoughts? Did I oversimplify this? Let me know. And if you enjoy this brief, tell others so they can benefit also.