It may feel like the current rash of tech layoffs started with Twitter, but they did not. Twitter was just loud about it. Challenger, Gray & Christmas, an outplacement firm, track terminations, and in 2022 tech led the way, with 97,171 job cuts, up 649% from 2021. So Twitter’s 3,000
I sat down with Traci Scherk at Talent Optimization about mentoring! It was a fun conversation. You can learn a bit about using improv comedy to do mentoring and leadership training. Hop over and take a listen here: Mentoring with Impact with Suzanne Lucas
This morning I got sucked into watching Facebook reels. The offspring inform me that these are just old TikToks, and I should go straight to TikTok, but I’m an old lady who likes Facebook and always regrets clicking on reels, and yet I still do it. Anyway, a
A couple of weeks ago, I had a transatlantic flight–Las Vegas to London. I wore cat slippers. This may seem in direct conflict with my general praise of dress codes, but they aren’t contradictory. The purpose of a dress code is to do two things: Set a standard, so people
I have an employee, Heidi, who continually asks others for their salary info. Some people don’t want to discuss it and tell her that, but she won’t stop asking! I want to give her a supervisory directive to quit bugging people, but I also know she has the
Sometimes it might feel good to call a coworker a “soul-less [sic] and morally bankrupt ” person. And if that person is a lawyer, you might think that the jokes just write themselves. But nothing good can come out of attacking a lawyer via text for the crime
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Francesca Di Meglio interviewed me over at HR Exchange. It was a fun conversation where I shared some ideas about Why daycare benefits don’t have desired long-term retention effects Why you need to think outside the box when targeting moms Why working at home isn’t for everyone Hop
I’m a professional writer, but I’m not a professional copy editor. Typos happen. Genuine errors happen. And I truly appreciate it when someone messages me and tells me about my errors so I can correct them. But as a general rule, unless you are someone’s editor or English
I have an employee, Bill, who’s been with us for four months. A couple of weeks ago, his manager called me to say that Bill had anxiety, clocked out, and was in the break room. The manager checked on him, and Bill said he was okay and needed
