My daughter lives upstairs and last Wednesday night I heard her running down stairs. When she poked her head in my office, she said “Steve Jobs just died.” … Read more
Weekly Wrap: Collaborative Space – Good Idea, Until You Need a Little Privacy
Here’s an office trend I’m not completely buying into: shared, collaborative workspaces. I get the upside to it, and I agree with the general … Read more
Retaliation Claims: A Little Ambiguity Can Cause a Big Employer Headache
By Eric B. Meyer Retaliation claims have become the leading cause of action for employees. In fiscal year 2010, retaliation charges filed with the EEOC … Read more
Do You Regularly “Fit Test” Your Employees?
One of the biggest conundrums in performance management is knowing how best to address the needs and possibilities of the different groups in an … Read more
5 Reasons Why It Really Sucks to Be a Salaried Worker in a Union Workforce
If you haven’t been following the United Auto Workers’ negotiations with the Big 3 U.S. automakers, it provides about as good a theater as watching … Read more
Blind Spots: Helping Workers Who Don’t Know What They Don’t Know
I had a manager tell me once that the toughest part about his job was knowing what he didn’t know. That worried me as a younger HR pro (he had almost … Read more
What You Can Do When Employees Get Nuisance Calls at Work
For the umpteenth time this year, I got a call last night from someone who is trying to track down my ex father-in-law. The call came in on my business fax … Read more
Even When Apologizing, No One Could Do it Quite Like Steve Jobs
I wasn’t surprised when I heard of the passing of Steve Jobs, but what did catch me off guard me was the outpouring of emotion — real, sincere, … Read more
Dumb Things Managers Say — And What You Can Do About It
Bnet recently published a list of “The 32 Dumbest Things That Real-Life Managers Said.” There is a lesson to be learned in all of them, but these three … Read more
NLRB Backs Off (For Now) Requiring Mandatory Union Rights Poster
By Eric B. Meyer The National Labor Relations Board announced yesterday afternoon that is has pushed back its deadline for covered employers to post this … Read more