Carrots Vs. Carrot Sticks & Your Company Wellness Program
Wellness programs across the US have been gaining in use to reduce company borne healthcare costs and improving the wellbeing and engagement of its employees. After four years of arguing, the Affordable Care Act (also known as the ACA and pejoratively as Obamacare) went into law and gave companies, the primary means of coverage for working […]
Keep Your New Year’s Resolutions: 3 Behavioral Tricks to Make Them Stick
3 Behavioral Tricks to Make New Year’s Resolutions Stick Sometime between December 26th and December 31st, most people decide to make resolutions for the coming year. While they are often noble in purpose and are aimed at the betterment of the individual making the resolution they are also often doomed for failure. The primary culprits […]
Follow Your Passion AND Your Personality for Job Success
Would you continue at your current job if you were no longer paid to do it? If not, what would you be willing to do without pay? Finding one’s passion will inspire you even without pay, but it isn’t the only thing you need to be engaged and successful in your work. Over the next […]
Lean In or Lean Out: Women Are Damned Either Way
A lot of movement has occurred in the last few years to bring greater equality to the workplace for women, but we are still far from an equal environment. Still pressured to not “make waves”, even at events to foster more women in tech, they are encouraged to hold back. When a woman does gain […]
Workers Gave Up $52 Billion In Vacation, is it Time to End 20th Century Vacation Policies?
In 2013 US workers apparently gave up $52.4 billion in unused vacation time, forfeiting 169 million paid days off. Employees who take less vacation feel more stress at work than their more rested counterparts and were not promoted at any faster rate for their increased workload. Many companies are offering “unlimited” vacation plans now, but […]
Happy Halloween! That Psycho Executive Isn’t Just a Costume
It’s Halloween once again and a wonderful opportunity to display our inner desires, fears, and humor. Fourteen years after American Psycho came out, Patrick Bateman (Christian Bale’s character) remains a popular choice for young white men, primarily in the finance industry. While the violent and murderous tendencies are atypical, the disregard for others and the […]
