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ONE-THIRD of senior managers surveyed said their company is taking more time to hire in the current environment despite having access to a deeper talent pool. In a separate survey by Robert Half, 62% of professionals said they lose interest in a job if they don’t hear back from the employer within 2 weeks — or 10 business days — after the initial interview. That number jumps to 77% if there is no status update within 3 weeks.

WHEN feeling dismayed by a slow hiring process, 49% of job candidates say they ghost the employer and drop out of the process, and 41% said they blacklist the company and refuse to consider them for future opportunities. A quarter of job candidates will take to social media or review sites to leave negative comments if they feel they’ve been strung along.

WHEN it comes to their most recent regrettable hire, senior managers said it took 10 weeks, on average, to realize the person was a poor match and to let them go, and an additional 6 weeks to restaff the role. More than 3 in 4 senior managers surveyed (76%) admit to recruiting the wrong candidate for a role, and nearly two-thirds (64%) said the negative impact is more severe now than it was a year ago.

GEN Z workers say they’re more stressed and find they’re struggling more than their peers while working remotely, according to a survey by Microsoft. Many are single and feel isolated, and since they’re early in their careers, workers feel they’re not having those in-person meetings that sometimes help them land in career advancing projects, or even to get in good with the boss.

WHILE many women are struggling due to an imbalance in household tasks, more than 70% of mothers said in a Financial Times survey that they felt it was expected that extra household duties would fall on them. A similar proportion of women report hardly managing more than one hour of uninterrupted work, 24 percentage points more than men.