Half (50 percent) of the world’s population is now under 30 years old, and those born between 1980 and 2000 will soon make up the largest segment of the … Read more
How Employees Are Using Social Media to Fight Workplace Harassment
By Eric B. Meyer It’s almost 2016. By now, who among us: the lawyers, the HR professionals, the owners, has yet to deal with an allegation of workplace … Read more
Here Are Four Really Good Reasons Why HR Will Be a Lot Different in 2016
I’ve been around HR for awhile, and very few trends are sticky. So let me be the first to contradict myself and tell you that 2016 is a pivotal year for … Read more
When Hunting For a Job, American Workers Start by Heading to the Internet
Americans are as likely to turn to the Internet when searching for a job as to their friends and connections, and many of those who do consider the … Read more
Celebrating the Holidays at Work: Can We Ever Get It Right?
Recently, I sent out a survey to my e-newsletter subscribers to find out what employees don’t enjoy about celebrating the holidays, both in general and at … Read more
Take It From Taylor Swift: It’s High Time to End the Millennial Bashing
Taylor Swift doesn’t care if you think she’s part of the “Me” generation. She flew in the face of all of our careful quantitative analyses of the so-called … Read more
These Four HR Mistakes Are Causing the Most Lawsuits
Editor’s Note: It’s an annual tradition for TLNT to count down the most popular posts of the previous 12 months. We’re reposting each of the top 25 … Read more
Does Firing an Alcoholic Employee Violate the Law?
By Eric B. Meyer Back in October, the University of Southern California fired Steve Sarkisian, its head football coach. USC fired Sarkisian after various … Read more
When It High-Potential Employees, Is Your “High” Really High Enough?
Sometimes a firm’s search for its high potential employees can seem as pointless and unproductive as the famous race in Alice in Wonderland where everyone … Read more
Does it Make Sense to Make Comp Decisions Without Any Link to Performance?
My job involves helping companies use technology to increase workforce productivity. This has taught me there is no one “best practice” when it comes to … Read more