By Michael R. Greco Yahoo recently named longtime Google executive Marissa Mayer as its new CEO. Since the announcement, Twitter has been aflutter with … Read more
Five Questions About Yahoo’s New, Pregnant CEO
Well, now there’s a twist on the Yahoo-poaching-from-Google story: Marissa Mayer is having a baby. Kudos to Yahoo for hiring a pregnant woman to do the CEO … Read more
Why Even Great Compensation & Rewards Can’t Overcome a Bad Boss
Think that a generous, transparent, strategically aligned rewards package will “compensate” for the fact that you have lousy managers in key … Read more
Still Don’t Have a Smartphone Policy? Join the Club – and Maybe the Lawsuit
Five years after the iPhone was introduced, companies are still struggling with how to handle after-hours usage by their employees. New research from SHRM, … Read more
Another Sure Sign You’ll Be Giving Out 3% Raises Next Year
Last week, WorldatWork weighed in with their forecast for salary increases in 2013. They said they expected them to be 3 percent, again. WorldatWork is … Read more
Pennsylvania Becomes the Latest State to Require E-Verify
By Kim Kiel Thompson The Public Works Employment Verification Act, signed into law on July 5, 2012, requires all contractors and subcontractors on … Read more
More on the Fired Lifeguard: Is It Simply a Parable About Outsourcing?
That story last week about the young Florida lifeguard who was fired for going to save someone out of his area seemed to get a lot of people talking. One … Read more
Updating Facebook Privacy Settings: Why Employees May Need a Reminder
By Eric B. Meyer A website called WeKnowWhatYoureDoing.com, which describes itself as a “social networking privacy experiment,” has begun … Read more
Weekly Wrap: At Facebook, Job Board Is In, Tough Yoga Instructor Is Out
It’s been quite the week for Facebook. First, the word came out that they were jumping into the job board business — a prospect a lot of people … Read more
What is Facebook Thinking? Do We Really Need Another Job Board?
I’m looking at you, Facebook. When word leaked out this past week about Facebook launching some sort of jobs board, I hoped that it would be … Read more