Schoolyard bullies grow into workplace bullies. A recent bullying incident in Louisiana, where teen boys created AI deepfake nudes of several girls at school, is actually an important case for businesses to draw crucial lessons. When the boys started disseminating deepfake nudes, the girls, and one in particular, complained
“I am racist, and I’ll say that to the whole entire world,” said former Cinnabon employee Crystal Wilsey, who also made obscene gestures and spouted racial epithets in a viral video. Cinnabon rightly fired her. Her behavior was absolutely inappropriate. Cinnabon issued a statement: We’ve seen the disturbing video from
Are your offices all decorated for the “holidays”? You may have left out any manger scenes, but it’s obvious that what you decorated for is Christmas. Fir trees, Santa Claus, and maybe an Elf on the shelf that your HR manager moves around. Christmas isn’t the only holiday
The human resources group SHRM brands itself as “the voice of all things work.” But when sued for racial discrimination, the organization tried to keep its own HR expertise out of the courtroom — only to lose $11.5 million. The plaintiff, former SHRM instructional designer Rehab Mohamed, said she
Note: I should have published this before Thanksgiving, but I, quite frankly, forgot! Sorry! It’s officially no-fire season — that is, unless someone commits an egregious act— you don’t terminate employees from the week before Thanksgiving until January. That’s the rule from employment attorney Todd Stanton, and it’s a
It was a simple question: “What’s your favorite drink?” This is a nice question for a waiter or bartender to ask, or maybe your date. There is no wrong answer to this. If your favorite drink is RedBull mixed with prune juice, then you do you. But, as
It’s Black Friday and I’m working. It’s not that I have to work — I’m self-employed and can choose my own schedule — it’s that I find this a great day to get things done. Now, to be fair, I’m an American in Switzerland so it’s a regular day (as was Thanksgiving)
There is a panic spreading across social media about the reclassification of many graduate degrees as non-professional, and how that could affect pay scales, as well as the amount people can borrow to pay for those degrees). If you’re an employer, the two questions you actually need answered are: “Do
What if I told you one trick that could increase your LinkedIn reach by 400 percent! You’d do it, right? Well, this trick only works for the ladies, because men do it automatically. That’s right, one woman, Megan Cornish, changed her gender on LinkedIn to Male and asked ChatGPT to rewrite her
An employee didn’t get their paycheck on the last cycle. Mistakes happen, for sure, but according to their recent Reddit post, the reason was that an AI-powered payroll tool decided that their timecard was “irregular” and halted the deposit. AI can do a lot of cool things for you. It can help
