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 […]
Ep 81 – Work Visa & Immigration Basics Including HB1 Visas
According to a recent SHRM Survey on the employer’s work visa process, 70 percent of respondents—and 96 percent of large employers with at least 20,000 full-time equivalent (FTE) employees—said the ability to obtain visas in a timely, predictable and flexible manner is critical to their organization’s business objectives. The United States work visa and immigration […]
Is Virtual Reality the Future of New Hire Onboarding?
Virtual reality is, well a reality, and becoming bigger every day. It is on its way to becoming a $30 billion industry by 2021. I think it has great potential as a tool for HR, as I have written before. One of the roadblocks to this happening was the cost of equipment — but Google […]
Ep 80 – How to Hire Traditionalist Generation Employees #fivegenwork
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 […]
Employee’s Sticky Fingers (Workplace Theft)
Have you ever eaten a meal so delicious that you force yourself to save a portion of it to enjoy the next day? You carefully pack the flavorful masterpiece and head off to work eagerly anticipating the moment when you will once again be able to enjoy the delectable piece of happy. At lunchtime, you […]
5 Tips to Better Manage Remote Employees
Not everyone you work with and supervise will always be in the same building, state, region or time zone as you. We assume remote employees can and should be handled the same as local employees. When problems with communication and productivity occur, we are quick to blame the distance for the issue. Employees blame management for […]
