Your friend shows you a picture of a photograph she took. It’s absolutely stunning. The lighting, the composition, everything. It’s perfect! What do you say? “You’re so talented!” Why on earth do we say that? Was the picture taken the very first time your friend picked up a
Basecamp CEO Jason Fried announced some changes at the remote working platform company on Monday. The most significant change seems to be the one over political speech: No more societal and political discussions on our company Basecamp account. Today’s social and political waters are especially choppy. Sensitivities are at 11, and
If you want a raise, you need to prove your worth, do your research, and ask for it! This is great advice to employees, but I have to ask, why is this the employee’s responsibility? It’s time to flip the tables and put the burden on managers and owners,
The White House is trying to juice America’s vaccination rate. On Wednesday, the Biden administration highlighted a paid-leave provision in the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act, which was passed on March 11. The IRS, also on Wednesday, codified the tax credit, which broadly offsets the cost for employers with fewer than
It’s currently Ramadan, which runs from April 13 to the evening of May 12, 2021. If you’re Muslim, you’ve probably been looking forward to this time to reflect on life, but if you’re not, it may not be something you are thinking about. But, if you’re working with
Who is your head of Human Resources? in a small company, that person often has many hats, and their primary training was not in HR. I know because these people come to me asking questions that should be basic HR. No problem. You can answer basic HR questions
Imagine: You find out you’re pregnant, and you excitedly go to the Human Resources Department to ask for your Family Medical Leave Act paperwork, and instead, you get fired. Caitlin O’Connor claims this happened to her at Ramsey Solutions, the company run by financial guru Dave Ramsey. Ramsey solutions
Amazon defended itself against Representative Mark Pocan (D-Wis.) in a fascinating tweet exchange–one that any business owner should study as an example of what not to do. Representative Pocan tweeted Paying workers $15/hr doesn't make you a "progressive workplace" when you union-bust & make workers urinate in water bottles.
Versailles is an amazing vacation destination, but it’s also a court destination for French Ikea officials where they face charges of spying on employees. According to The Guardian, Jean-François Paris, Ikea France’s former director of risk management, spent upwards of €600,000 a year on private investigators who spied on employees. The
A year into the pandemic, and we’re all tired of Zoom meetings, but one woman may owe her life to a Zoom court hearing. State attorney assistant Deborah Davis noticed that the victim in a domestic abuse hearing acted strangely, and she asked the Judge to investigate. The police came and
