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Peter Cappelli

George W. Taylor Professor of Management at The Wharton School - University of Pennsylvania
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Peter Cappelli is the George W. Taylor Professor of Management at the Wharton School and director of Wharton’s Center for Human Resources. He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and since 2007, is a Distinguished Scholar of the Ministry of Manpower for Singapore.

Cappelli’s recent research examines changes in employment relations in the United States and their implications. Cappelli writes a monthly column on workforce issues for Human Resource Executive Online and is a regular contributor to the Wall Street Journal and the Harvard Business Review. He has written several books, including Why Good People Can’t Get Jobs: The Skills Gap and What Companies Can Do About It; The Future of the Office, which was named a best business book for 2021 by Toronto’s Globe and Mail, and Our Least Important Asset: How the Relentless Focus on Finance and Accounting Hurts Employees and Business.

Cappelli has degrees in industrial relations from Cornell University and in labor economics from Oxford, where he was a Fulbright Scholar. He has been a Guest Scholar at the Brookings Institution; a German Marshall Fund Fellow; and a faculty member at MIT, the University of Illinois, and the University of California at Berkeley.

  • Evening Meetings: Productivity Boost or Burnout Risk?
    Peter notes that evening work, a trend since the pandemic, may harm productivity and disrupt work-life balance. He traces the "always-on" mentality back to the 1980s. Peter suggests fewer, more effective meetings as a solution, criticizing the tendency to extend work hours for more meetings as "lazy management."
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  • "Five years after the pandemic forced a global experiment in remote work, organizations are facing a critical inflection point. For the first time, we have evidence, drawn from experience and research, on what works and what doesn’t."

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