Lately I’ve been reading about how the telephone is so (19th and 20th Century) over. The outcry goes that social media has reinvented the wheel and … Read more
Survey: Workers Are Ready to Get Up and Move – But Only For the Right Job
Take it from someone who has picked up and moved a few times for a better job: it ain’t easy, and it’s not always worth it. My experience has … Read more
Beyond the NLRB Scare: Why Your Workplace Needs Smart Social Media Policies
By Susan Keating Anderson Once considered to be something of a passing fad, social media websites such as Facebook and Twitter have become a regular part … Read more
Are You Winning the Battle to Attract Young Workers to Your Company?
Do young workers like your company? And, should you care? Seems like a simple enough question right? In HR we want all workers to love us — young … Read more
The Role of Technology in the Evolution of HR
The field of human resources can be divided into two basic areas: Personnel management focusing on administrative and legal processes associated with … Read more
Five Ways to Breathe Life Into Your Benefits Communications
Let’s say you’ve discovered that employees aren’t aware of a new benefit. They don’t understand how the new consumer-driven health plan works. They’re not … Read more
The SHRM Workplace Forecast: It’s Health, Health, and More Health
SHRM released its biennial report on workplace trends (the SHRM Workplace Forecast) this month. It’s really about health. Health is the workplace trend to … Read more
Leadership Lessons From the Uproar in Egypt: The “Youth Bulge” at Work
Early in the development of the protest in Egypt, David Kirkpatrick, as part of his extensive reporting in The New York Times from Cairo wrote: A small … Read more
What Do You Do When an Online Connection Goes to the Great Beyond?
Sometimes when I use social media, I see dead people. Just yesterday, when I was scrolling through my 600 plus LinkedIn contacts, I was struck by two … Read more
Technology in the Workplace: How it Can Turn Real Work Into Fake Work
By Brent D. Peterson and Gaylan W. Nielson Everything in our modern business and organizational environment has the potential for being Fake Work. Great … Read more