A tenure-track researcher accepts an offer in March. Her start date is set for August, timed to a grant’s fiscal year. Then the paperwork stalls — a missing form, a visa category nobody double-checked, a Form I-983 sitting unsigned somewhere in a departmental...
Most employee experience playbooks assume a fairly standard shape: a defined manager, a career ladder, an annual engagement survey, maybe a recognition program tied to performance reviews. Bring that playbook into a university research lab and most of it stops...
