The Internet of Things and Employee Management
A term we hear more and more about every day is the “Internet of Things.” We here that our homes and offices will be controlled by the IoT, with our refrigerators contacting you and letting you know you are low on milk; your car, which will be driverless will communicate with other cars and road […]
Will Unlimited Vaction Be the Death of PTO and Vacation?
As many of you have probably heard now, Richard Branson has created a “non-policy” vacation policy. He said he modeled it after the Netflix policy. According to writer and entrepreneur Daniel Green “Branson described the ‘non-policy’ as giving employees the flexibility to take as much vacation time as needed when they feel ‘100% comfortable that […]
Is the Future of Work a Coffee Shop Table?
We read a lot about the future of the workforce and how it will be composed of a lot of independent contractors who do not work for regular employers. Indeed if you have read my posts here at Blogging4Jobs I have written about this several times, here and here for example. This is having a […]
10 Things In Your Future We All Need to Really Think About
This post is not specifically about HR. It is about things that could be of concern to you in your future as an HR professional. What a futurist thinks Futurist Jack Uldrich gave the keynote address to a group of people at a meeting of the Emerson Exchange. Uldrich said everyone, in every line of […]
Is The Future of Bosses Robots and the Cloud?
Is The Future of Bosses Robots and the Cloud? It doesn’t take much reading to determine that many people think the coming decade or more will be largely populated by independent contractors or solo entrepreneurs. I have written about this before in A Future Focus: A Generation of Entrepreneurs. Technology today however has made it […]
Is Virtual Reality Really the Wave of the Future in HR?
In one of the certification preparation classes I teach we were discussing orientation and onboarding. I mention that I feel that one of the tools of the future for HR will be the use of virtual reality, in this case as an orientation tool. Today I came across an article in The Guardian online talking […]
