Elevate your visibility with this empowering webinar on developing more visibility and impact. Unlock strategies to amplify your presence, boost confidence, and overcome barriers to advancement in any field. Dr. Amy L. Brice gives a very insightful message helpful to all HR people, even though it’s specifically aimed
What if you laid someone off but forbid them from telling anyone? The Financial Times is reporting that accounting powerhouse PwC is conducting “silent lay-offs” in the U.K. — they’re asking people who take a voluntary severance package to keep the reason for their departure hush-hush. PwC is asking laid-off employees to keep explanations of their departure limited to the
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:
“Act your wage” (number 1) while keeping your “balls in the air” (number 2), and you’ll likely set off the “spidey sense” (number 10) of everyone in the room so badly that you won’t be able to complete the “deliverables” (number 6) on your “mission critical” (number 8) project.
Starbucks customers say lines are getting long, and the wait times are probably making customers cranky as they wait 15 minutes or more for their coffee. But Starbucks says everything is fine–and that its staffing algorithm, which supposedly led to the line issue, is “upgraded,” along with the company’s staffing policies. I’m not a
Everyone says people don’t leave jobs; they leave managers. And yet, managers don’t get the feedback they need to improve, according to a new survey from Gallup. As a result, many think they’re doing a better job than they actually are. Here’s what you need to know–and what you can do about it. Managers
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
