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**Top 10 | McKinsey Quarterly 2022**

As 2022 draws to a close, we’re revisiting our most popular insights of the year. Today, we give you our best-read pieces from the McKinsey Quarterly, which focus on topics including talent, ESG, marketing in the metaverse, and more. At No. 1. is The Great Attrition is making hiring harder. Are you searching the right talent pools?, by Aaron De Smet, Bonnie Dowling, Bryan Hancock, and Bill Schaninger. Read on for our full top 10, and don’t miss McKinsey Publishing’s 2022 year in review for a month-by-month journey of some the year’s biggest inflection points.

1. The Great Attrition is making hiring harder. Are you searching the right talent pools?

People keep quitting at record levels, yet companies are still trying to attract and retain them the same old ways. New research identifies five types of workers that employers can reach to fill jobs. Reassess now

2. A military veteran knows why your employees are leaving

She also knows what you can—and can’t—do about it. Here are three surprising lessons from a veteran of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Understand the Great Resignation

3. Gone for now, or gone for good? How to play the new talent game and win back workers

Nearly half of the employees who voluntarily left the workforce during the pandemic aren’t coming back on their own. Employers must go and get them. Here’s how to start. Understand employee priorities

4. Does ESG really matter—and why?

Although valid questions have been raised about ESG, the need for companies to understand and address their externalities is likely to become essential to maintaining their social license. Deliver meaningful impact

5. ‘Find the smartest technologist in the company and make them CEO’

In the first episode of the new The Quarterly Interview: Provocations to Ponder series, Silicon Valley’s Marc Andreessen tackles tech trends like artificial intelligence, crypto, and Web3—and why incumbents still have a tough time competing with digital start-ups. Join the conversation

6. Marketing in the metaverse: An opportunity for innovation and experimentation

Although widespread adoption of the metaverse may take some time, leading brands are already rewriting the rules of marketing. Understand digital strategies

7. Hybrid work: Making it fit with your diversity, equity, and inclusion strategy

New research details what empowered employees love about hybrid work models and the risks to diversity, equity, and inclusion if managers get the evolving flexible workplace wrong. Meet in the middle

8. ‘If you’re going to build something from scratch, this might be as good a time as in a decade’

In the second episode of our series The Quarterly Interview: Provocations to Ponder, venture capitalist Bill Gurley explains the promise and perils facing start-ups at a moment of economic uncertainty and reveals why hybrid work may be the most interesting technology of all. Be ambitious

9. Navigating inflation: A new playbook for CEOs

Few chief executives have faced the challenge of leading a company through an inflationary spike like today’s. Lessons from strong leaders and bold action can help CEOs make the decisions that only they can make. Navigate uncertainty

10. Meet the psychological needs of your people—all your people

Too many employers pay too little heed to the needs of the lower earners in their company. Here’s why—and how—they should shift gears. Recognize talent

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The year's most popular articles from the McKinsey Quarterly

**Top 10 | McKinsey Quarterly 2022**

1. The Great Attrition is making hiring harder. Are you searching the right talent pools?

2. A military veteran knows why your employees are leaving

3. Gone for now, or gone for good? How to play the new talent game and win back workers

4. Does ESG really matter—and why?

5. ‘Find the smartest technologist in the company and make them CEO’

6. Marketing in the metaverse: An opportunity for innovation and experimentation

7. Hybrid work: Making it fit with your diversity, equity, and inclusion strategy

8. ‘If you’re going to build something from scratch, this might be as good a time as in a decade’

9. Navigating inflation: A new playbook for CEOs

10. Meet the psychological needs of your people—all your people

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Talent trends that companies should understand by now

Global balance sheet 2022: Enter volatility

The year's most popular articles from the McKinsey Quarterly

Top 10 | McKinsey Quarterly 2022﻿

1. The Great Attrition is making hiring harder. Are you searching the right talent pools?

2. A military veteran knows why your employees are leaving

3. Gone for now, or gone for good? How to play the new talent game and win back workers

4. Does ESG really matter—and why?

5. ‘Find the smartest technologist in the company and make them CEO’

6. Marketing in the metaverse: An opportunity for innovation and experimentation

7. Hybrid work: Making it fit with your diversity, equity, and inclusion strategy

8. ‘If you’re going to build something from scratch, this might be as good a time as in a decade’

9. Navigating inflation: A new playbook for CEOs

10. Meet the psychological needs of your people—all your people

**Top 10 | McKinsey Quarterly 2022**