Last week, WorldatWork weighed in with their forecast for salary increases in 2013. They said they expected them to be 3 percent, again. WorldatWork is … Read more
Pennsylvania Becomes the Latest State to Require E-Verify
By Kim Kiel Thompson The Public Works Employment Verification Act, signed into law on July 5, 2012, requires all contractors and subcontractors on … Read more
More on the Fired Lifeguard: Is It Simply a Parable About Outsourcing?
That story last week about the young Florida lifeguard who was fired for going to save someone out of his area seemed to get a lot of people talking. One … Read more
Five Steps to Break Out of Your Organization’s Business Silo Mentality
When the managing partners of Boston-based Creative Realities, Inc. ask executives, “What is the number one innovation killer at your company?” one of the … Read more
Updating Facebook Privacy Settings: Why Employees May Need a Reminder
By Eric B. Meyer A website called WeKnowWhatYoureDoing.com, which describes itself as a “social networking privacy experiment,” has begun … Read more
Hiring Wisdom: Should You Worry About Training Your Competition?
By Mel Kleiman Many small business owners and managers worry about hiring and training someone who could later join the competition, or even compete with … Read more
Weekly Wrap: At Facebook, Job Board Is In, Tough Yoga Instructor Is Out
It’s been quite the week for Facebook. First, the word came out that they were jumping into the job board business — a prospect a lot of people … Read more
Survey: CFOs Love Performance Reviews, But Workers Feel Differently
You can toss this into the debate over whether or not performance reviews are useful (and maybe even add it to the argument over whether HR should report … Read more
Why Work-Life Balance Doesn’t Work
It’s always great when you stumble upon a golden nugget of workplace insight, and that’s how I felt today reading The Washington Post‘s … Read more
Building a Road Map: The Best Way to Help New Hires Succeed
Achievement is a relative thing; you don’t feel like you’ve achieved something until you feel like you’ve reached your potential. You need to have a clear … Read more