Mistakes to Avoid While Drafting a Non-Compete Agreement
A well-drafted, enforceable non-compete agreement can help employers prevent unfair competition from soliciting customers or employees, restrict employees from using its ...
Glassdoor: The Best Companies to Work For In 2017
Every year, Glassdoor puts together its list of the best places to work among large U.S. employers. On Tuesday, the employer and CEO review site published its ninth annua...
America’s Most Generous Companies of 2016
When it comes to a percentage of pre-tax profits donates, some companies, big or small, lead the way. It’s more than philanthropy for these companies. After all, thereâ...
How IBM Promotes On-job Training At Work
A few years ago, Pep Boys realized that their traditional way of educating employees about theft wasn’t really working. Until that point, they had relied on classes, me...
The Merits of Music At Work
A lot people at my workplace, myself included, play music at their desks. Several of us plug in chunky, expensive headphones that keep the music, in our own respective ea...
Under One Woof: The Joy of Bringing Pets at Work!
Around 22 percent to 25 percent of companies in America allow employees to bring pets. The number is an increase from 20 percent of companies in 2008, according to a surv...
Innovative Approach of Performance Management Improves Work Efficiency
Every company aims to achieve maximum efficiency in every professional task. One can attain this by making sure that the performance of each and every employee is up to t...
DOL Wants To Determine Size of The Gig Economy
Earlier this year, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) announced plans to bring back the Contingent Worker Supplement (CWS) to the upcoming Current Population Survey, in a...
Obama Urges to Act on Paid Sick Leave
The DOL has issued a rule regarding President Obama’s Executive Order 13706, wherein federal contractors will need to prove up to 7 days of paid sick leave to all of th...
Let’s Talk About Women in Tech
Did you know that women in tech are more than twice as likely to quit as men? A study of 4,000 women who had recently changed jobs shows that the number one reason women ...
Lawsuit Against Yahoo: Review System Leads To Discrimination Against Men
IN BREIF: Silicon Valley Business Journal editor-in-chief Scott Ard has filed a lawsuit against Yahoo alleging gender-based discrimination against men. The lawsuit filed ...
Opening The Open Book Management
The avant-garde concept of sharing crucial financial and operational information with employees, which can be accessed by anyone from the organization at any point of tim...
Microsoft LinkedIn Deal: A Case of Office Dominance
To state the obvious: Microsoft’s LinkedIn acquisition brings a big shift. But, what does it really mean, though? Whether you want it or not, LinkedIn will no longer be...
Building An Executive Pipeline: Grooming The Next-Gen Leaders
What could be more vital to a company’s long-term health than minting out future leaders? For one thing, while a company may have a long list of candidates who could st...
When You Constantly Feel Like A Fraud At Work
You’re living a lie. There are days when you feel owe your success to luck, timing or fluke. You think you owe it to your intuitive perspectives and charm, which helps ...
Companies around the World Are Banning Internal Emails at Work
Before we deep-dive into the ‘banning internal emails’ at work debate, let’s first focus on the central issue: productivity. Email is a horrible time-suck. Companie...
