A bill allowing employers to pay workers in comp time rather than cash for overtime hours was passed by the House today. On a largely partisan lines, the … Read more
If You Use Slack, You Can Monitor Company Morale
One of the more disturbing Big Brother trends of the big data era has become workplace surveillance. Employers are now able to micromanage employees by … Read more
Survey Says: Companies Shifting Focus to Employee Experience
I came across this fascinating white paper from SilkRoad the other day. The Big Shift Puts Employees First: HR Transforms from Processes and Transactions … Read more
Careers Site Publisher Says It’s No Longer For Sale
Careers site publisher DHI Group announced it is no longer for sale. In a press release, the company, which operates multiple niche career sites including … Read more
Google Is Testing a New Jobs Service
Without any public announcement, Google has begun testing a new jobs product it’s calling Google Hire. Multiple Silicon Valley and technology sites … Read more
What Do You Do If Your Employee Gets Sick Abroad?
In 2016, U.S. residents logged 457.4 million person‑trips for business purposes. Life on the road can give employees an opportunity to see new places and … Read more
Guess Who Wastes Time at Work
I’m not a big fan of over-generalizing the characteristics of the different generations in the workforce. It’s just too easy to say “Millennials are … Read more
Teamable and Beamery Garner $5 Million In Funding
Teamable, which provides recruiting software for organizations, closed a $5 million Series A funding to help the companies scale and optimize … Read more
HR Analytics: How to Tell Your Data Story
For decades, HR organizations have operated with a “softer approach” to business, relying more on intuition and less on hard facts to make workforce … Read more
Tight Training Budget? Get Your Employees to Create the Content
Training material generated from a learning needs analysis, followed by instructional design, and then delivered by an expert trainer will be of high … Read more