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Ep 80 – How to Hire Traditionalist Generation Employees #fivegenwork

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As part of our ongoing podcast series taking a look at the five generation workplace, we are continuing our conversation talking about the Traditionalist Generation. Check out our podcast interviews as we break down the five generations at work with Generation Zen and Generation Y. Traditionalists represent the smallest generation of the workforce with 94% of traditionalists […]

What if the Robot Apocalypse Was More Like a Robot Utopia?

What if robots don’t steal all of our jobs and leave us unemployed shells of our former selves? I’ve written a lot about the downside of the expanded role for robotics, AIs and machine learning at work and in the marketplace but there’s an upside to it too. In manufacturing and agriculture robots have both […]

Traditional Retirement Isn’t for Me and Probably You Too

I usually write about the future of work in this column and while I’m doing so again today, I’m making it personal. I am going to be talking, in a sense, about my future and the future of others near my age. This was prompted by an excellent piece published on LinkedIn and Uncommon Wisdom Daily called Why […]

Blood On the Sales Floor: When Dress Codes Hurt

A waitress at a Joey Restaurant in Edmonton, Alberta says she was forced to work in high heels despite their causing injury to her feet. Human Resources Online reported that, according to a friend’s Facebook post, the woman was told by her manager that heels were a required part of the dress code and exceptions would […]

No Conference Budget? No Problem!

No Conference Budget? No Problem! While on my way to a conference last weekend, I began reading 52 Cups of Coffee. The book begins with this quote: “You will be the same person in five years as you are today except for the people you meet and the books you read.” – Charlie “Tremendous” Jones […]