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...
Three Harsh Realities of Being an HR Leader
No one in an organization – a new employee on the shop floor to a senior executive in a glass skyscraper – is immune to challenges. Like a stone thrown into a pond, t...
Women Coders Are More Respected – But Only If They Hide Their Gender
Despite chauvinist suggestions that programming is a bush-whacked route for women, a gender-blind study shows that women coders write better code than men – as long as ...
Building a High Impact Learning Culture
Kaizen, Japanese for ‘small, incremental, continuous improvement’, in its contemporary form is used to improve and streamline corporate processes. Kaizen refers to ac...
Funny HR Typos That Can Kill Your Career
Typos happen, they’re ubiquitous, but some are funnier than others – especially when other people make them. No matter how many times you proofread, how many times yo...
The Work Culture Evolution
In 2014, Merriam Webster’s dictionary’s word of the year was “culture”. It was chosen for its large amount of online lookups and a noteworthy increase in lookups ...
What Your Work Wardrobe Says About You?
They say it takes only seven seconds to make an impression, and that stained collar won’t help. Clothes define what you are, even at work, so if your work wardrobe is n...
A Guide to Employee Performance Review
Everyone hates it when it’s time for the performance review. It’s a given. But there are ways to move it from the “dreaded core” category to an “engagement tool...
Meet Butterfly, Your Happiness Manager At Work
Companies paying attention to creating a happier workplace culture often turn a blind eye to the personal welfare of the employees or satisfaction of the workers. A lot o...
