Amazon’s return to office announcement is a warning sign for remote workers everywhere. CEOs want to return value to shareholders, and it may well be that bringing people to the office can help with that. Really, that’s it. That’s their goal. Sure, they may state goals like “Amazon strives to be Earth’s
On Tuesday, I flew from London to Dallas on American Airlines. According to the flight attendant, the flight is nine hours and 34 minutes. Add another hour on the ground, and it’s quite the long trip. And the pilot left the “fasten seatbelt” sign on for the entire trip. Now, I’m not a pilot, but
I’ve worked under the “Evil HR Lady” brand since 2006. On Tuesday, I changed it to “Improve Your HR.“ Evil HR Lady was a solid brand name with good recognition. I still think it’s funny, and I’m very glad I chose it when I started blogging about HR back in the
Something horrible happened recently at a Wells Fargo office. A woman, Denise Prudhomme, died and nobody noticed. Headlines emphasize that no one noticed for four days, but keep in mind that includes a weekend. If Prudhomme died at the end of the day on Friday, it was really only on Monday that people
Oh, no! Is it possible that presidential hopeful Vice President Kamala Harris lied about working at McDonald’s? The Washington Free Beacon breathlessly points out that saying, “Would you like fries with that?” wasn’t on her resume, even one year after graduating from college! Admittedly, I’m not doing a fact-check on this.
“The days of feeling guilty for taking a sick day will soon be over.” This is according to Danielle Farage, an expert on Gen Z. And over at Business Insider, Emily Stewart recently explored a related idea–that sick days are actually about setting boundaries–although she cautions against taking too many days off. But here again, an increase in sick days
A judge in Texas just blocked the FTC’s new noncompete rule, which was set to go into effect on September 4. U.S. District Judge Ada Brown in the Northern District of Texas ruled that the Federal Trade Commission’s ban “is arbitrary and capricious because it is unreasonably overbroad without a reasonable explanation.” What
Starbucks is obviously a place where you need to come into work. You can’t make a frappe from your home office. Of course, people who work in the corporate offices aren’t handing out beverages with misspelled names on them and so can do their jobs remotely –approximately twice per week. The
Jennifer was a great manager who led a six-person team. She moved to a new company for a fabulous job, and you really can’t blame her. It was more money and a better title. You tried to replace her, but now it’s been six months, and the management position is still vacant. What
Your HR department is utterly miserable. Everyone hates them. Turnover is through the roof, and post-pandemic life in HR is wretched. This is according to a New York Times reporter who recently interviewed Workweek chief people officer Hebba Youssef, and others, about the trials of the job. “People in H.R. tend to be very compassionate, very empathetic,” Hebba Youssef
