Yet another workforce buzzword has entered the chat.

The “Great Detachment” is how experts are describing the growing number of employees feeling disconnected from their job. Half of employees (51%) are actively seeking a new job or eyeing job boards, according to a recent Gallup report, the highest number since 2015. And the amount of workers looking for a job in a one-month period rose to 28% in July, Axios reported, up 10% year over year.

This isn’t a “blip or fad,” said Joe Mull, keynote speaker and author of Employalty: How to Ignite Commitment and Keep Top Talent in the New Age of Work. Employees will remain disconnected and continue job searching until they’ve found a role that fits with their desired quality of life, he said.

Workplace experts shared with HR Brew what factors might be causing the Great Detachment, and how people pros can help employees feel more connected and engaged.

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While Galileo Galilei may have discovered that the Earth actually revolves around the Sun, with the help of an AI assistant named in his honor, HR pros can now leverage the entire universe of Josh Bersin Company resources and other HR insights on demand.

First launched for enterprise clients last year, the Josh Bersin Company’s AI assistant Galileo is now available (for $39 a month) to anyone in the people business.

“It’s the personal AI assistant for everything HR,” Bersin said of Galileo Professional, which launched Tuesday. “We’ve finally figured out a way to support individuals and large organizations with the same kind of content in a similar platform.”

Zoom out. Galileo is not the first, and won’t be the last, business-specific AI assistant tool developed in the era of generative AI. One prominent and visible way generative AI has shown up at work is via these types of AI assistant solutions. AWS, for instance, launched Amazon Q Business to streamline workflows in the business setting.

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The HR Besties podcast hosts delivered their first live podcast session in Las Vegas last month as part of the annual HR Tech conference. Hosts Jamie Jackson, Ashley Herd, and Leigh Henderson joined dozens of HR leaders and technology vendors at the conference expo to talk about finding joy at work.

The HR Besties first launched their podcast last year, complete with a “staff meeting” agenda that includes “cringey corporate speak” and hot topics. Since then, the three HR pros have used their combined decades of experience to discuss HR horror stories and explore issues important to an HR audience. The live session was a joyous occasion. The besties dove right into how they experience joy at work, and how to see and share joy at work with employees.

“Joy is incredibly subjective,” Bestie Leigh Henderson said. “Step one is figure out what actually brings some joy, and as an HR leader for nearly 20 years, oh man, I’ve seen the full gamut [of] variations of joy within the workplace. Some people crave creative pursuits. Some people crave collaboration…Some people crave things entirely outside of the workplace, which is totally fine too.”

Henderson said her experience developing her HR Manifesto project on social media and IRL was actually a pursuit of joy.

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