I discussed before how companies on the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For list are experiencing huge amounts of growth in headcount. That post focused … Read more
A Lesson From Grammy Winners Daft Punk on Why Collaboration Works
I’m not a Daft Punk expert – unless you count listening to Get Lucky non-stop when driving my son and his friends to the beach last summer. This French … Read more
Send a Non-Compete Letter and You May Be Buying a Lawsuit
By Michael R. Greco When employers seek injunctive relief to enforce a restrictive covenant, nearly every judge begins the injunctive hearing with the same … Read more
Supreme Court Clarifies Meaning of “Changing Clothes” Under FLSA
By Timothy J. Weatherholt This week, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the time spent by employees donning and doffing (putting on and taking off) certain … Read more
Tech Insights: The Disruptive Changes in Outplacement Technology
At last October’s HR Technology conference, I caught up with Careerminds, which is one of several players disrupting the outplacement space. My first … Read more
What Do You Do When Employee Feedback Goes Wrong?
What you do when you give an employee feedback and they disagree or get upset with you is one of THE most important managerial moments-of-truth to master. … Read more
Cash Is King? Not When It Comes to Employee Engagement
The misconception of cash as the ultimate motivational tool can create a problem with reward and recognition programs whose purpose is to increase employee … Read more
President to Raise Minimum Wage to $10.10 For Some Federal Workers
President Obama plans to act unilaterally and bypass Congress with an executive order that would raise the minimum wage to $10.10 per hour for some federal … Read more
Report Finds That Private Sector Unionization Ticked Up Last Year
By Michael J. Lotito While the overall percentage of union membership in the U.S. workforce remained unchanged at 11.3 percent in 2013, there was a slight … Read more
Big Data is Hot, But Sometimes, Small Data Is the Better Way to Go
The recruiting and HR world has been awash for the last year with talk about Big Data. It seems everywhere you turn you read another article describing how … Read more