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
Shopify announced it would lay off about 10 percent of its workforce, and the company chose to do this via an impersonal method: email. First, CEO Tobias Lütke sent an email to the whole company, signed tobi, which informed employees to look out for a second email that would tell them Shopify had
If your employees are trying to survive under constant inflation, what’s the best thing to do? Howard University Hospital CEO Anita L.A. Jenkins chose to give helpful budget-saving tips to her employees, sending out an email to staff. The email was posted to Reddit’s r/nursing subreddit, and it has some good points: Jenkins
Being friends with your direct reports can cause problems. You need to treat everyone fairly, and if you’re besties with one employee and not others, you can be biased. And even if you’re perfectly fair, you still look biased, which isn’t good for morale. But what can you be if
Nobody wants to work anymore. It’s the rallying cry of business owners, recruiters:, and cranky people who aren’t getting the coffee fast enough at Starbucks. But, it’s not at all new. Gen X may complain that Gen Z doesn’t want to work (and if that’s the case, they
If you’ve been regularly testing your employees for Covid over the past two plus years, you have done so under the guidance from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). The EEOC updated their Frequently Asked Questions about workplace Covid testing on July 12. There are some subtle, but significant,
Business Coach David Wanounou made a bold proclamation on LinkedIn: If you’re an employee, asking for a 3-week vacation ain’t the best idea. Because those 3 weeks will show the company that they can manage without you. So better ask for less. He’s not wrong, but he’s not right either.
Employees who worked at home during the pandemic shutdowns seem loath to come back to the office. At the same time, companies want people to come back. The Pew Research Foundation found that 61 percent of the people working from home were doing so by choice–not because there wasn’t an
