Are You The Smelly Coworker? Let ‘No Sweat’ App Be The Judge.
There is a word in Japanese for the behavior of coworkers who annoy others with their pungent aromas – sumehara, or “smell harassment.” Corporations in Japan have s...
The Many Ways You Can Deal With A Compulsive Liar at Work
I worked for a media company for a little over four years and there was a person, who we will call Betty who started two years after me. We worked in different department...
Rewire Your Brain For Greater Happiness And Peace of Mind
Jenny was a petite, demure woman in her early 20s who was visibly upset when she came into my office. A recent B.A. graduate, from a prestigious university, Jenny had a s...
Workplace Sitcoms Reflecting the Faulty Modern American Work Culture
Today’s workplace comedies are able to pull in massive audiences and a cultural relevance that keeps them on top of the all-time best television lists. As with most mod...
Uber Begins Housecleaning with Firing of 20 Employees
Uber Technologies Inc has fired 20 employees, including some senior executives, following a probe by a law firm into sexual harassment allegations and other workplace mis...
Do you have to pay employees for a smoking break?
Employees who nip out of office for smoke breaks work for a whole week less than their non-smoking colleagues. On an average, smokers spend 45 minutes away from their des...
Walmart is Accused of Punishing Employees for Sick Days
Walmart and labor unions go together like oil and ice. In terms of labor regulations, the nation’s largest private employer is basically the Tiger Woods of retail chai...
Walmart is Transforming Employee Training with Virtual Reality
Walmart has made headlines in this past year for all the wrong reasons. All too often, these headlines revolve around the widespread mistreatment of workers. More than tw...
Burners Turn Earners : Turning Unused Real Estate Spaces into Workspaces
When Malcolm Porter bought and renovated a Downtown Berkeley office building to create a studio for his ad agency, he realized the space was considerably huge. Rather tha...
Why Office Interior Should Be Tailored To Suit the Employee Personalities
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, business sections of newspapers and magazines described the intrinsic work arrangements of Silicon Valley with quenchless curiosity and...
Three Essential Steps to Build a Culture of Learning at Work
Steve Jobs did not found Pixar. It is common knowledge, Jobs never expected Pixar to be an animation industry leader when he bought the computer division from George Luca...
It Has Been A Very Strange Year At Uber
Companies today are going by the ‘bleed now, make money later’ business model like Amazon.com did in the 00’s. What’s shocking is that some of these companies hav...
India is beating US at Paid Maternity Leave
In India, less than 30% of women work and the deficit costs the country an estimated 2.5 percentage points of gross domestic product per year. Last year, the Upper House ...
LiveSmart: A Simple, Paperless Employee Health Platform for Lifestyle and Health Management
In 2002, PepsiCo introduced two initiatives for their employees under the Healthy Living wellness initiatives. One program was focused on overall lifestyle and health man...
Mental Disorders Affect 1 in 8 Working Americans. On this World Health Day Encourage Better Employee Health
About two months ago, Harvey Reed knew things had changed when he realized he was almost entirely alone at work. He worked in a large organization, surrounded by clever, ...
66% of Adults with Autism are Unemployed. Who is to blame?
Nearly 66 percent of adults with autism are unemployed. A vast majority of autistic individuals cannot get a job – and when they do, bullying in the professional space ...
