If you’ve spent much time in the workplace, you know this is true: HR is the place managers and employees turn when they have workplace questions to … Read more
Weekly Wrap: The 5 Rules That Make For Happy Employees
I’ve worked at a lot of companies during my career, and as you might imagine, I preferred working at the ones where people seemed to be happy. The … Read more
HR’s $64,000 Question: If We Invest More in Talent, Will It Really Pay Off?
It’s the old chicken-and-the-egg dilemma — do you first invest in talent and see the rewards, or, do you squeeze the most out of the talent and … Read more
A Workplace Truth: Managers Are the Key Players in Engaging Workers
BlessingWhite’s Employee Engagement Research Update has recently been released. It’s an update to their massive research published in 2011. Measuring … Read more
Job Board TheLadders Hit With Class Action Lawsuit Calling It a “Scam”
Job board TheLadders is being sued in New York federal court in a class-action consumer lawsuit alleging that for years it falsely claimed it offered only … Read more
Manpower Survey Shows That Q2 Hiring Plans Look to Be Stable
U.S. employers continue to take a measured but optimistic approach to hiring plans for Q2 2013, according to the latest Manpower Employment Outlook Survey. … Read more
Shared-Value Strategy: A Fundamental Change That HR Should Embrace
Why are market leaders behaving like non-profits, and what does this mean for your workforce and company culture? Today, a surprising number of global … Read more
Weekly Wrap: The Downside of Flex Work – Feeling Really Out of the Loop
In all the many words that have been written about the Yahoo and Best Buy decisions to quit allowing out of the office flex work, one point seems to have … Read more
The Flex Work Dilemma: How Do You Optimize Motivation and Productivity?
Now that the dust has settled a bit about Marissa Meyer’s controversial “no working from home” policy at Yahoo, I thought I’d weigh … Read more
February Surprise: Job Growth Solidly Up, Unemployment Drops to 7.7%
Economists were surprised and investors pleased by the latest monthly jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics Friday that said 236,000 jobs were … Read more