By Brent A. Cossrow When employees resign to join competitors, it is not uncommon for employers to review the former employees’ workplace computers … Read more
7 Memorable Lessons on Work & Life
Note: Frequent TLNT contributor Fran Melmed attended this month’s Business Innovation Factory 6th annual summit (BIF-6) in Providence, Rhode Island. … Read more
A College HR Director’s Worst Weekend: When Mascots Fight
If I’m the Human Resources Director or Vice President for HR at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, I probably woke up this morning wondering, “how did … Read more
Low-Ball Offers for the Unemployed: Just Our Free-Market System at Work
CareerBuilder had a new survey out today, and on first glance, it will make you cringe. Here’s the headline: “More Than Half of Unemployed Workers With Job … Read more
Handling Problem Employees, or Struggling With Our Own Paris Hilton
Sometimes, readers say the darndest things – like this: hey, enough about difficult managers already; what about problem employees? Okay, I’ll admit that I … Read more
Talent Management Vendor Softscape Acquired by SumTotal
Family-owned talent management vendor Softscape has been acquired by SumTotal Systems, a talent development and e-learning provider. The announcement was … Read more
Survey: Only 11% of Companies Still Giving Cost of Living Increases
This won’t be a surprise to most of you given all the bad stuff that happened during the recession and ongoing economic downturn, but it still bears … Read more
Weekly Wrap: Big Brothering Freelancers, the Terrors of Testosterone, Torching an Employer
Have you noticed a big change this week? Now that summer and Labor Day is behind us, people seem really serious about getting back to serious work. That’s … Read more
Six Things You Should Consider When Making A Counter-Offer
Earlier this month, we heard about some of the extraordinary counter-offers that Google was making to its departing employees (specifically engineers). In … Read more
Can You Use a Mob Statute on a Worker Who Takes Confidential Info?
By Reyburn W. Lominack III So the former employee who walked out the door with your company’s “secret recipe” is not in the mob. Does that mean the … Read more