Call me out-fashioned, but I’m firmly of the school that you can’t always believe everything you hear from business consultants. Which was why I was … Read more
Spend Less on Job Advertising and More on Recruiters
The economy will recover, and the most important thing you can do now is to upgrade the quality of your recruiting team. I’d like to make a business … Read more
EY error leaves staff overdrawn; Amazon questions its office space needs (while its wareho…
Payroll error hits 55,000 EY staff in US More than 55,000 US staff working for EY had a nasty surprise when they woke up on Tuesday morning and found their … Read more
The coming surge in unemployment
When economists become more or less unequivocal about the inevitability of one main thing: recession [Bank of America most recently declared there was a … Read more
Most interesting HR stories of the week
Apple braced for first unionization vote… Workers at an Apple store in Towson, Maryland, will next week vote on whether to unionize. Workers at the … Read more
Unleash America lives up to its name
Back in March, after attending my first HR conference for two years (HR Transform in Las Vegas), I was left with an overwhelming feeling that HR … Read more
After two years HR must heed its own advice
I’m pretty sure most of us can recall the routine safety demonstrations flight attendants show us just before take off. As well as guidance on where the … Read more
The three analytics traps
An inconvenient truth is the fact that organizational dynamics can work against effective people analytics by rewarding non-productive projects. Let’s look … Read more
The bigger picture behind The Great Resignation
We all know employees are quitting their jobs in record numbers. But what’s the story behind this story? New research has dug a bit deeper to see what’s … Read more
Why digital transformation needs trust more than anything else
Boil it down, and pretty much everything in life comes down to one tiny, five-letter word: trust. Building trust and maintaining reputation is everything. … Read more