Now that everyone has calmed down about Yahoo pulling their ‘’Work From Home” program and making those Yahoos working from home come back to … Read more
Do You Know How to Pay Employees For Daylight Savings Time Work?
By Eric B. Meyer This Sunday, Daylight Savings Time begins, as we push the clocks forward one hour at 2:00 am on March 10, 2013. Did someone say Clocks? … Read more
Make Your Company Vision a KISS (As in “Keep it Simple, Sweetie”)
By Dr. David Vik I always advise clients that the “Vision” of a company needs to be a short, simple, and repeatable slogan that doesn’t put … Read more
How to Measure If You’re Hiring Great People – or Not
“HR should be every company’s ‘killer app.’ What could possibly be more important than who gets hired?” — Jack Welch, former General Electric CEO I … Read more
Want a Singular Company Culture? It Must Come Straight From the Top
Your CEO must set your company culture. He or she must demonstrate by example and reinforcement the culture they want to see permeate the organization. … Read more
Goodbye ROWE: Best Buy Ends Flex Work Program It Was Famous For
All things must pass, as George Harrison once observed, and so it is with Best Buy’s famous Results Only Work Environment, known simply as ROWE. … Read more
The Yahoo Effect: It’s All About Collaboration — One Way or Another
Marissa Mayer and telecommuting each took some hits last week. A Yahoo search identified 219,000 results last week for “Yahoo + telecommuting” – and 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
The Day I Got to Talk About Business (and HR) at Harvard Business School
On the day I got to talk about business at Harvard Business School, I advised every woman to stay out of Human Resources. I didn’t intend to deliver that … Read more
New Bill Would Extend FMLA Benefits to Part-Time Workers
By Eric B. Meyer Under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), employees are eligible for leave if they have worked for their employer at least 12 months, … Read more