WorldatWork, an association for compensation and total rewards professionals, is teaching companies how to explain why pay hasn't kept up with the cost of living. What the resource reveals isn't about employees—it's about what the company already believes.

Consumers are crashing out over dynamic pricing, shrinkflation, and prices that don't match the shelf—and they're not leaving that anger at the door when they clock in. Does that same distrust shape how employees feel about where they work?

BCG's new research names the belief gap holding leadership teams back. Here's a perspective on the gap it doesn't measure—the distance between what leaders notice and what's actually true on the frontline.

Every layoff solves a number on one ledger. Few leaders track what it costs on the other. A look at the belief-level damage behind 2026's layoff wave — and what it means for the deals and transitions built on top of it.

The return gap is growing. But it was there before the rollout started. Three belief gaps nobody closed before the AI implementation began.

There's a calculator for the cost of meetings. There's no calculator for what it costs when leadership direction doesn't survive the cascade — but that cost is real, and it compounds.