Companies are looking to HR to answer their social media policy questions. Here are three (3) key policy-making strategies I’ve learned during my 16 years … Read more
Digital Natives: Is Your Company a Go-To Place For Gen Y Workers?
You may know them as Millennials, Gen Y, Echo Boomers or the Peter Pan Generation. Whatever you call them, “Digital Natives” will form 70 percent of the … Read more
Employee Fired For Tweeting Complaints About Discrimination
By Eric B. Meyer Is this Retaliation 2.0? Two weeks ago, Adria Richards attended an industry conference at which she overheard sexual jokes from two … Read more
New Social Media Privacy Law Taken Up by Congress
The social media privacy debate continues to rage – and now Congress has taken up the reins. Recently we blogged about a handful of states that have passed … Read more
Are Your Social Media Policies Educating Workers About Social Media?
By Eric B. Meyer Your social media policy may be good when it comes to addressing legal risks. But getting that message across to your employees… Not … Read more
Source of Hire Survey: Employers Up Their Use of Outside Agencies
With the worst of the recession behind, employers are again turning to outside recruiters for help filling their more challenging positions. In the annual … Read more
Are You Googling Job Candidates? When You Do, Everyone Loses
Years ago, I asked HR professionals to stop Googling candidates. In short, it is dumb and lazy. It is an unreliable and invalid way of discerning a … Read more
Cyberloafing at Work? Maybe It Really Just Shows a Lack of Leadership
Turns out, people waste time at work on the Internet. Shocked? Probably not, because it’s likely that most of us do it (at least a little). According to a … Read more
Social Media Privacy Bill? “Dangerous Solution to an Illusory Problem”
By Eric B. Meyer Room on the bandwagon for one more? Citing no empirical evidence confirming a “practice” of employers requesting social-media … Read more
How Tony Roma’s Encourages Workers to Use Smart Phones at Work
There is an epic war being fought along the front lines of every business in the world. Business owners and managers across all industries are engaged in … Read more