Last year, Costco took a controversial stand by refusing to stay open during Thanksgiving, citing the need to dispel the trend of retailers opening earlier … Read more
Troubling Questions After Record $185 Million Discrimination Award
By Ashley Manfull Last week, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California ruled that a former female manager of AutoZone can keep a … Read more
Weekly Wrap: With So Much Research to Read, You Gotta Pick and Choose
Most weeks, I get as many as a dozen whitepapers, research findings, survey results, and other polls and related data. Most of it is focused on talent … Read more
FMLA Interference: It’s Telling an Employee “Don’t Die at the Desk”
By Eric B. Meyer Telling an employee returning from open-heart surgery, “Don’t die at the desk” is bad. Very bad. Also, threatening to … Read more
Why Micromanagement Can Sometimes Be a Good Thing
On a flight home last week, I started thinking about the many different bosses I have had. From my first job stocking shelves at the local Wal-Mart to save … Read more
NLRB: Employees’ Profane Facebook Comments Aren’t Protected Activity
By Suellen Oswald After years of National Labor Relations Board decisions protecting employees’ profanity-laced tirades and outright threats against … Read more
Another Reminder Why You Need a Good Workplace BYOD Policy
By Eric B. Meyer Is it against the law to remotely wipe an employee’s Candy Crush high score? Replace Candy Crush high score with email contacts on a … Read more
Facebook Testing New Service Designed For Workplace Use
Facebook is testing a new professional service specifically intended to be used in the workplace. The company has so far been mum about “Facebook at Work.” … Read more
How Big Data Can Help Transform the Business Value of HR
Scattered about the Internet is a treasure trove of data, and more and more, it’s being used to manage people. Big data might be unstructured and unwieldy … Read more
Weekly Wrap: Part-Timers Want to Be Full-Timers, But Where Are the Jobs?
It’s been an ongoing question nobody has a good answer to: Why don’t more people feel good about the economy given the drop in the unemployment … Read more