By Eric B. Meyer Early in my legal career, a colleague taught me this expression: pigs get fed; hogs get slaughtered. Essentially, be aggressive. But push … Read more
New Source of Hire Study: Job Boards Are Leading Source of External Hires
A new study by HR technology provider SilkRoad shows that jobs search site Indeed.com is the leading source of external hires for its 700+ customers, … Read more
Burning Bridges: The Perils of Ripping Your Employer Heading Out the Door
In a very public resignation published Wednesday morning in The New York Times, former Goldman Sachs executive director Greg Smith blasted the investment … Read more
Does It Matter That American Workers Get So Little “Official” Time Off?
You know this to be true: American workers are among the most productive in the world, even if the the growth in U.S. productivity slowed somewhat at the … Read more
HR Now Has Its First Official Standard: Cost-Per-Hire
For the first time in the history of the profession, human resource practitioners now have a uniform way to measure and compare one of HR’s oldest … Read more
Expiring Work Authorization: Do Employers Have to Say Goodbye?
By Kim Kiel Thompson As a rule, if an employee in the United States is unable to produce a valid, unexpired work authorization document to complete the … Read more
Get a Grip: It’s Madness Worrying About Workers and March Madness
Editor’s Note: Few workplace issues get more hype than the annual NCAA men’s basketball tournament, also known as March Madness. Is it a big … Read more
Are Unpaid Internships Worth the Risk?
By John E. Thompson For awhile now, unpaid internships have been a hot topic under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act. We noted some time ago that the … Read more
Here’s the Best Definition of Employee Engagement You’ll Ever See Anywhere
I don’t usually read things that jump out and grab me, but an article in Sunday’s New York Times did, because it had probably the best … Read more
Weekly Wrap: Like It or Not, Unpaid Internships Are Going, Going …
This week, a story in USA Today reconfirmed what a lot of us already know: unpaid internships, at least as we once knew them, are slowly going away. And as … Read more