“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
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
