6 Sessions On Diversity You Can’t Miss at #SHRM16
Check out our SHRM16 VIP Party Guide by clicking here. We get you the parties and must attend SHRM events first. This year there are over 200 concurrent sessions at the annual SHRM conference. That’s a lot of sessions to sift through! So to help you plan your conference better, I’ve gone through the offerings to highlight some […]
Too Much Information: When Metrics Meets Surveillance
What’s the line between workplace metrics, good communication and surveillance? Odo, a new product from online survey platform Qualtrics, raises this debate once again. Reported on by Cale Guthrie Weissman at Fast Company yesterday, the program’s features include internal chat, task assignment, metrics and “access to birds-eye cameras looking over the office’s entire open floor […]
What You Need to Know About the Twitter Update
The long anticipated Twitter update is finally here and although the social media platform didn’t add new tools for dealing with harassment, it did give us several other items on our wishlist, like excluding @names and media from character counts. Importantly, Twitter has walked away from previously planned expansions to the 140 character limit, instead focusing on […]
6 Mistakes You Can Easily Avoid at #SHRM16
Check out our SHRM16 VIP Party Guide by clicking here. We get you the parties and must attend SHRM events first. 6 Mistakes You Can Easily Avoid at #SHRM16 So you’ve registered for SHRM 2016 and booked your hotel. It may be too early to start packing — ok, it’s definitely too early to start packing […]
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 […]
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 […]
