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 […]
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 […]
If the CEO Is Paying Attention to the Future Why Isn’t HR?
If the CEO Is Paying Attention to the Future Why Isn’t HR? According to Larry Page, the founder of Google, “Lots of companies don’t succeed over time. What do they fundamentally do wrong? They usually miss the future.” If paying attention to the future is a critical skill for the CEO of today, my premise […]
Putting the Human Really Back in Human Resources
Putting the Human Really Back in Human Resources Admit it. We’ve all been there. By “there” I mean a situation where we, as HR, are asked to treat people in a way we never would if we were thinking of them as human beings first. Pressure is put on us from hiring managers, CEOs, CFOs […]
