I had to the opportunity to talk with Mike Coffey about HR things in the news. Give it a listen!
Hush travel is quite controversial. Remote workers want to travel and work where the WiFi is. Managers and HR want to know where employees are and forbid employees from working in places where the business could get in legal trouble. So it was no surprise that my recent article “It’s Time to Make
The FCC recently announced the end of non-competes for all employees. Now, the chances of this going through are pretty slim. The US Chamber of Commerce filed a lawsuit in Texas less than 24 hours after the announcement, and while we won’t have the outcome of that lawsuit
Mask bans are nothing new. Georgia, for instance, banned masks in 1951 to prevent Ku Klux Klan members from covering their faces in public, a law the Georgia Supreme Court upheld in 1990. North Carolina passed a similar law in 1953, which banned masks but allowed exceptions for things like Halloween
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
Reference checks matter more than interviews. The purpose of the interview is to make you a better reference checker. The ideal reference check should take at least 45 minutes. These are some of the many things Graham Duncan, investor and chairman of the Sohn Conference Foundation and chairman emeritus of East Rock Capital LLC, thinks about reference
On the same day, I got two messages asking the same question: “I did something embarrassing. Did I just ruin my life?” The funny thing is that one was a LinkedIn coaching client, and the other was an improv student. Neither one of them ruined their lives. In
Tesla has been laying people off. And in true Elon Musk fashion, it’s garnering news attention for the bad aspects of it. Like this email informing people that Tesla could not offer reasonable accommodations for their disabilities, or this story about an employee who slept in the Tesla parking lot. But Tesla appears to have
So, I got into a bit of an internet spat with Robyn L. Garrett over this article: It’s Time to Make Hush Trips a Fireable Offense. Robyn didn’t care for it, so she published this tiktok: @courageousleadership Should you be fired for taking a “hush trip”? #remotework #wfh
our employees are taking Hush Trips. What are those? Well, to be fair, I just learned the term Hush Trips today, but I of course knew the practice: it’s working “remotely” from someplace other than your home and not telling your boss. Hence the “hush” part of the travel. It sounds all