How to Effectively Spy On & Monitor Your Employees (Part 2)
Recent technological advancements allow us the freedom to work from anywhere and at any time. More commonly, employers are allowing and encouraging their employees to do just that, working at all sorts of times from all sorts of places. This freedom allows both the employee and the employer to “check in” at all hours as […]
Manner Monday: Workplace Interruptions Q&A
Manner Monday: Workplace Interruptions Q&A Today’s Manner Monday Question comes from an intern: At work, what’s the best way to enter my supervisor’s office if I need to ask her something? Should I knock, say hello, or just walk on in if I need to speak to them? – Bridget I would start by […]
4 Ways to Use Live Video Tools In Your Job Search
Please consider voting for my SXSW 2016 Panel with Carlos Gil, Resumes Suck! 7 Ways to Land a Job with Social Media. Click here to vote. Video is changing the world, y’all, and it has a use case in most every life situation and scenario including looking for a job. Like any social media platform […]
How to Effectively Spy On & Monitor Your Employees (Part 1)
Imagine a world where companies, more specifically, your employer uses things like GPS monitoring, face recognition software and other high tech technology to monitor what it is you are doing. The days of the computer tracking software seem rather tame when compared to the potential tracking technology of the future. Just imagine what options employers […]
Start Small with Your Employee Retention Strategy
Employee retention is the rate at which a company is able to keep their employees working for their them. If a company keeps half of its employees around for one year, the employee retention rate for that specific year would be 50%. Many businesses are aware of the importance of employee retention and will enact […]
First Steps in Tackling the Year of the FLSA
My good friend Eric Meyer recently wrote that this is the year of the FLSA, and I couldn’t agree more. By now, you’ve certainly read countless articles and blog posts discussing the recently proposed rulemaking that will more than double the minimum salary required for a worker to be classified as “exempt” under the Fair […]
