A staggering 22 million Americans in the country’s labour workforce lost their jobs between January and April 2020 due to covid closures, pushing the unemployment rate up to almost 15% – the highest rate ever recorded in the 72 years since data collection began in 1948 – and a year on, the rate hasn’t changed

Photo by Govinda Valbuena from Pexels Aesop’s Fable, ‘The Fox and the Grapes’. This is a story that any human resources manager will be eventually familiar with from personal experience. That bad experience after a promising employee fails to fit in, becomes disgruntled, and then things go pear shaped. Sour Grapes A hungry fox passed