Recruit Millennials Without Raising Cyber Security Risk
The cyber attacks in 2014 of Sony, Target, J.P. Morgan Chase and Home Depot cost those companies hundreds of millions of dollars and compromised the personal data of over 150 million customers. The damage to the companies’ reputations was immeasurable and equally impacted was the financial services industry. Cyber security has become one of the […]
Parental Work Perks That Don’t Work
It was hot news earlier this year that more and more companies are providing egg-freezing services for their employees and increasingly, millennial women are carefully planning the parenthood phase of their lives by taking these companies up on these services. It’s also hot news whenever a tech giant or unicorn offers breast milk delivery or […]
How 4 Day Work Weeks Can Change Your Work/Life Balance
How 4 Day Work Weeks Can Change Your Work/Life Balance Last month, the company I work for implemented a “four-day workweek” policy in conjunction with its 30th Anniversary. Among other objectives, the new benefit is designed to spark and incentivize the creativity, speed and agility that embody our startup roots. We expected and received a […]
What To Do When Your Workplace Is Toxic
What To Do When Your Workplace Is Toxic In my last post, I discussed how to handle a toxic employee. What happens if it’s more than just a single employee who is toxic? What do you do if you find yourself in a toxic workplace? Working in a toxic environment can affect physical health, […]
Unlimited Vacation: It’s Good To Be in the 1 Percent
There’s been a lot of buzz lately about unlimited vacation and parental leave. On August 4th, 2015 Netflix’s Chief Talent Officer, Tawni Cranz announced a new unlimited leave policy for new moms and dads during the first year after a child’s birth or adoption. The company I work for, a la mode technologies recently announced […]
Tech Giants Are Expanding Parental Leave — What About the Rest of Us?
Last week Netflix announced a new “unlimited” paid parental leave policy and Microsoft an expansion of their program to 12 weeks. This week Adobe announced their paid maternal leave benefits would expand to 26 weeks. What do all of these companies have in company? They’re in the tech industry. Will the trend of increasing parental […]
