The rules of elevator riding: Get in, face forward, don’t speak except to ask someone to push a button, and please control all bodily noises and smells. The no-speaking rule changes if you are talking with someone who you already know or with whom you were speaking before
Male boss: You use big words that make people feel stupid. Me: What words? Which people? Boss: People. Co-worker, later: Boss means you make him feel stupid. Annette Mertens shared this bit of feedback from her boss on a LinkedIn post by Kieran Synder, the CEO of Textio. Snyder shared
In the spring of 2020 the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) changed the joint employer standard to be friendlier to the many small business owners who run their business under the franchise model. This was after a protracted battle with McDonalds. The NLRB ruled that the corporate entities were
The number of women in leadership positions is growing. However, according to a study published by MIT Sloan Management Review, men still outnumber women almost three to one in the top 100 places in Fortune 100 companies. But, what’s interesting is how the women in those positions got
With more than 100 million subscribers to his main YouTube Channel, Jimmy Donaldson, better known as MrBeast, can afford a staff, which he has. If you’re not familiar, he made a real-life version of Squid Game, filmed 50 hours stuck in solitary confinement, and filled his friend’s backyard with 100 million Orbeez,
Would you like it if your current or former employees left Glassdoor reviews with the following headlines: “Deceptive, Unethical, Poorly Managed, No Sense of Direction” “You will HATE working here–Please read all the reviews” “Working Here is Psychological Torture” “New Admittees Beware!” “For the love of God, do NOT work
Quiz: What did 53 percent of companies offer in 2020 and only 35 percent do now? Answer: paid maternity leave at a level higher than required by law. This is according to a survey from the Society of Human Resources Management (SHRM), which also found drops in paternity leave
You are not a perfect boss, and you don’t run a perfect company. It may be your baby, and you would like to think it’s perfect (just as all parents believe their babies are the most beautiful baby ever), but the reality is, your company is just average. There
I spent years being utterly exhausted, surviving on caffeine and catnaps. I made a lot of assumptions about why I was tired: I was stressed. Running my own business, going through a divorce, and having medically complex children equals stress. No wonder I’m tired! I was fat. I”m not quite
When employees start arguing with each other about appropriate office wear, it can explode into accusations of harassment and bad feelings. Take a post at Reddit where a woman wearing a top with “thin straps” had a man come up to her and tell her to cover up–but he’s
