It was 9:30 pm, two weeks before Christmas, and I was standing in a humongous line at Best Buy. This is not where I wanted to be. I hate shopping in stores … Read more
7 Sure Fire Ways to Fail as an HR Leader
It’s tough being an HR leader these days! You have all these boomers retiring and taking their typewriters and knowledge with them, you have all these Gen … Read more
“Flexible Work” Trend Still Necessitates Wage-Hour Compliance
By Edward N. Boehm Jr. A recent Time magazine item by Dan Schawbel of Millennial Branding discusses what he sees as a growing trend to abandon the … Read more
A Look Ahead at Five Key Trends Impacting HR in 2012
The directives facing HR leaders in 2012 are clear: align with the business, engage employees, and remain flexible enough to tackle the unexpected. Today’s … Read more
Study: Facebook is the “Inadvertent” Business Network for Millennials
Millennials aren’t specifically using Facebook for business, but with an average of 700 “friends” and a propensity to change jobs after two years, the … Read more
NLRB Rules That Employers Can’t Require Workers to Use Arbitration
The National Labor Relations Board continues to jump into controversial workplace issues, ruling late Friday that employers can’t force employees to … Read more
Is This The Worst Thing You Can Ever Do to an Employee?
What is the worst thing you can do to an employee? According to management consultants Doug and Polly White, authors of the CFO.com article The Worst Thing … Read more
Can You Hear Me Now? The Impact of Social Media on Your Workforce
Can you hear me now? That ubiquitous phrase made famous by Verizon became quite apropos at the end of 2011. After the most embarrassing debacle in history … Read more
Weekly Wrap: How Empathy Can Help Ease Employee Job Burnout
As a long-time member of the workforce, I understand first-hand how easy it is to get burned out on your job. In fact, the problem of job burnout has been … Read more
IBM’s Eat-to-Earn System Rewards Employees For Eating Right
Around the same time you were pondering a resolution to eat better in the new year, IBM was patenting an idea that might make that easier. Long known for … Read more