After an extremely hot employment market and people job-hopping their way to better paying positions, it seems like the Great Resignation is cooling off.  While overall job listings are still higher than pre-pandemic levels, demand is falling in areas where remote work really took off such as HR, software development, marketing, and math-related roles.  Emily Peck, markets correspondent at Axios, joins us for how more people are prioritizing job security over pay.

 

Next, as we approach the midterms and more people than ever are voting by mail, you can track your ballot in about half of states.  The envelopes that carry your mail-in ballots have a number associated with them that corresponds to an individual voter, and that number is used by companies like BallotTrax and Ballot Scout to track the ballot.  Geoffrey Fowler, tech columnist at The Washington Post, joins us for how you can now track your mail-in ballot’s every move.

 

Finally, there are about eight different types of difficult people that you can work with.  They range anywhere from insecure bosses to office know-it-alls and political operators only looking out for themselves.  But the worst type of people to work with are the passive-aggressive types because it is so common and the hardest to pin down.  Amy Gallo, contributing editor to the Harvard Business Review and author of “Getting Along: How to Work with Anyone,” joins us for how to handle difficult people.

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