Everyone says they hate jargon, but we still use it. It serves a purpose–we all know what you mean when you say, “per my last email,” you mean, “listen, you dunce, I already told you that yesterday,” but the former has plausible deniability. Your dunce-like coworker can’t complain
Expecting all your coworkers to understand your jargon is just blue-sky thinking. Maybe we should brainstorm or action a project so that going forward we can think outside of the box and make sure we are all singing from the same hymn sheet. If not, we can circle back and not have to re-invent the wheel to understand each other. These are just
How does HR hold people accountable for the HR part of their jobs? For example, reviewing resumes, filling out performance appraisals, taking required training, signing documents, etc. I’m an HR professional at a company where employees take a lackadaisical approach to these checklists. They might be great at
You run a business. You hire people. You may have found some great people, and you may have found a question that you think is fantastic, so you share it on Twitter. Now, Twitter is, at best, a toss-up. You can post the most brilliant idea ever, and no
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Approximately 15% to 20% of the population, or about 1 in 7 people, exhibit some form of neurodivergence. With their extraordinary mathematics, memory and creativity skills, these out-of-the-box big thinkers bring a lot to the table, and organizations are taking notice. Harvard Business Review believes that hiring neurodivergent staff gives
A multitude of organizations — from David’s Bridal (9000 positions) to McDonald’s (less than 1,000) to Amazon (27,000) — have been laying people off this year. As such, it’s not surprising that hiring is slowing, as well. Meanwhile, non-farm payroll increased by 236,000 in March, which may seem like a lot, but there were 472,000 and 326,000 new
I often write about HR screw-ups. There are plenty of them, for sure. But in reality, no one goes to Reddit to praise how smoothly their HR manager handled an investigation. Good HR goes unrecognized because people don’t even realize what HR did in a situation. They just
“I had an old boss who said to me one time, ‘You can visit pity city, but you can’t live there.’ So people, leave pity city, let’s get it done.” So said MillerKnoll CEO Andi Owen in a video to her employees. Here’s the thing: I agree with this message.
