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1. Article · Sep 16, 2026 · Mikaela Cohen

   Safeguard Global's four-day workweek looked like a win—until burnout and secret Friday work pushed its CEO to ditch the mandate | Fortune (opens the original)

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   What works for one may not work for another… …with one notable exception: a company that listens to its employees and uses those insights to inform its workforce strategies. That works every time. Case in point: Safeguard Global. After piloting a four-day workweek in 2023, the Austin-based workforce management company used employee feedback from the program to inform its strategy going forward, Bjorn Reynolds, Safeguard Global’s CEO and founder, told HR Brew. That pilot has since given way to a

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2. Article · Jul 14, 2026 · Mikaela Cohen

   A leadership consultant's warning to managers: Don't mistake grief for underperformance | Fortune (opens the original)

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   That can make it hard for HR pros to guide employees through the grieving process, especially if they’ve never experienced loss themselves. But grief literacy training can help, according to Patricia Bravo, leadership development consultant and author of In the Room: When Grief Comes to Work. Bravo sat down with HR Brew to share more about grief in the workplace. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. The concept that loss and grief are universal topics that we either have experi

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