Bracket Challenge

Workforce Impact Bracket

The Internet was the most important event in workplace history over the past 90 years, according to our readers. Click the link above to read about all the topics in the Workforce Impact tournament.

Workforce Pop Culture Bracket

And what about entertainment? Cinderella may not have made our tourney, but we still had a Cinderella story. Seinfeld won the Pop Culture tournament for best workplace-related Pop Culture topic. Click the link above to read about all the topics in the Pop Culture tournament.

And The Winners Are

The Internet and Seinfeld. The winner of the third-generation iPad is MJ Bakove of Santa Barbara, California. Congratulations, MJ!

To see the final results, click on the appropriate bracket below. Thanks for voting!

Impact Bracket
Pop Culture Bracket

The Bracketologists

Read what our bracketologists thought would win. We have the HR Capitalist, himself, Kris Dunn; Ed Frauenheim, our savvy senior editor; and Todd Johnson, Workforce Management's perspicacious publisher, giving you their insight into the Workforce Impact bracket round by round. For the Pop Culture bracket, we've recruited Chuck Ross, the maven of media and managing director of TV Week, our sister site, to gab on the choices.


How It Worked

Starting March 19, readers were asked to pick their favorite subjects by clicking on topics in the Workforce Impact and Pop Culture brackets.

The topics that got the most votes each period moved on to the next round. There were six rounds in all lasting two weeks each, and voting was done one round at a time.

Like a typical NCAA bracket, the first week there were 64 teams and 32 matchups. Two weeks later it went to 32 teams and 16 matchups, etc.

The subjects were chosen by Workforce Management editors and our readers for both brackets.

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Articles

  • 2022: A Workplace Odyssey

    To celebrate Workforce's 90th anniversary, we have been running a series of articles looking at important workforce-related issues with a then-and-now theme. This month we change things up and look toward the future to show what might be coming for our 100th anniversary and beyond.

  • Shifting Out of Reverse

    As part of our 90th anniversary, Workforce is talking to some of the people and organizations that helped influence today's workplace. In this installment, Workforce senior writer Rita Pyrillis talks to Ford Motor Co.'s vice president of HR, Felicia Fields.

  • Deal or No Deal? The 'Employee Value Proposition' Evolves

    To celebrate Workforce's 90th anniversary, we're running a series of articles looking at important workforce-related issues with a then-and-now theme. This month, we look at the evolution of the “employment deal” between employers and employees.

  • Grabbing a Seat: Developing CHROs in the 2000s and Today

    To celebrate Workforce's 90th anniversary, we're running a series of articles looking at important workforce-related issues with a then-and-now theme. This installment examines HR leaders branching off into other executive roles in the 2000s and today.

Blogs / Forums

Featured Discussion

Welcome to our 90th anniversary site

Welcome to Workforce Management’s 90th anniversary site. Use this forum to tell us about the topics you think have been the most important to the workforce over the past 90 years...


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Quote of the Week

Takes Two

"Don't rule out working with your hands. It does not preclude using your head."
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