Well, maybe not die, but put up a big battle. My big hill is dress codes: I think every business needs one. People who insist that dress codes are for stuffy people and they hire people who “know how to dress” drive me nuts. Just spell it out. Dress
Well, maybe not die, but put up a big battle. My big hill is dress codes: I think every business needs one. People who insist that dress codes are for stuffy people and they hire people who “know how to dress” drive me nuts. Just spell it out. Dress
Have you ever been in a meeting where someone presented your idea as their own? It’s disheartening. It doesn’t feel appropriate to speak up and say, “Hey, that was my idea,” yet if you keep quiet, others keep stealing your ideas. Idea theft isn’t just a minor annoyance;
Rage applying may be a new term, but the practice certainly isn’t new–even though some are claiming this is a “Gen Z phenomenon.” It’s not. It may be that Gen Z coined the term and are using it on TikTok, but it’s hardly new. What is rage applying? Rage
You can take advantage of Boomerang employees even if you don’t live in Australia. Not the ones for throwing, but employees who leave and then come back. With average tenure at jobs remaining fairly steady at around four years, people can go through quite a few companies in their professional
According to this post on Reddit, when an intern showed up to work in a crop top, even though it violated the written dress code, she defended her outfit, saying she’d learned it from an HR TikTok video. Someone in the thread suggested it sounded like this influencer:
The Department of Labor is upgrading the minimum salary for exempt employees from $684 per week ($35,568 per year) to $844 per week ($43,888 per year) as of July 1, 2024, and then to $1,128 per week ($58,656 per year) as of January 1, 2025. The idea is
If you want to know what HR has been doing this week, it’s been talking with people about the end of noncompete agreements under the new proposed FTC ban. On the one hand, CEOs (who generally have noncompetes themselves) panic that their employees will be free to cross the
When I was a teenager, my mother told me I should become a senator. Why? Because of this lovely little thing called the “filibuster,” where you could just keep talking forever and stop all Senate business until you either passed out, a la Mr. Smith Goes to Washington,
Good news for Dell employees! If they like their remote jobs, they can keep their remote jobs! They just won’t be considered for any promotions or internal transfers. While you may be shocked at this, it’s simply Dell saying the quiet part out loud. We know that CEOs
Men and women, it turns out, work in different realities. What one group perceives as fact, the other sees something different. As a woman who has studied and been in the workplace for more than 20 years I’ve often thought there is a gap between what we perceive and reality.