American employers’ push for minimum wage increase faces an uphill battle
The United States has a record 8.1 million job openings. The media likes to call it a ‘labor shortage.’ Despite increased vaccinations and easing COVID-19 restriction...
Building a remote team culture
Managing a team is never easy, and when you have a diverse team scattered across the globe, the task becomes doubly difficult. Remote work culture has become an accepted ...
How to deal with difficult people at work
Conflicts are endemic when you notice factions, team divisions and stonewalling at team meetings. This is the time a true leader steps in to lay down the rules. Make it c...
What to include in employee personnel files?
Keeping a record of an employees’ lifecycle documents of their employment journey within an organization has become a must due to the digitization of all decision-makin...
What is the best day to fire an employee?
Here at The HR Digest, Jane Harper is often asked to give her insights on when is the best day to fire an employee? Is there really a best day of the week to terminate so...
Five Reasons to Quit a Job
Quitting a job is never easy. The familiarity, the comfort, and not upsetting the boat are often the reasons cited for sticking to a position that no longer fulfills your...
Tackling burnout while working from home
Japan is notorious for its work ethics and how people work to exhaustion, they even have a term for death by overwork—Karoshi. The same malaise seems to be plaguing the...
The Workplace of Tomorrow: An Interview with Steve Hatfield
As a global management consulting business whose success depends on client trust, Deloitte puts a high value on talent with passion, grit and vision. From the vantage poi...
A Workplace That Inspires Passion: An Interview with Sarah Wagener
In a remarkable interview with The HR Digest, Sarah Wagener talks about the value of creating a passionate work culture in the global business sector. “We execute, whil...
The Secret to Building Resilience: An Interview with Pat Teague
Pat Teague, who leads USAA’s human resources team, talks to The HR Digest about the company’s leadership development programs that has helped attract the industry’s...
Diversity As Strategy: An Interview with Nadia Rawlinson
While much needs to be done to neutralize our biases and unleash untapped talent – Nadia Rawlinson, Chief Purpose Officer of Slack, is already hard at work developing t...
A Culture of Excellence: An Interview with Melissa Strait
In these challenging times, Melissa Strait, Chief People Officer at Inspire Brands, is making a herculean effort to build on the advantages of a values-driven corporate c...
How to calculate for pay for remote workforce
The future of work is remote. That is the direction that the world was moving towards before the Pandemic hit in 2020. Now, work from home is a reality and not something ...
A Culture of Quality: An Interview with Laurie Havanec
How to create the future of work? What is the role of HR executives in upskilling the workforce? What advice can a renowned CPO give to aspiring talent? These were only s...
Creating a Culture of Quality: An Interview with Beth Galetti
In an interview with The HR Digest, Beth Galetti, Senior Vice President Human Resources at Amazon, explains the importance of business resource groups and the vital role ...
Creating Shared Value: An Interview with Becky Schmitt
As a company whose success depends on change management, Cognizant puts a premium on its internal culture. From the vantage point of a lifelong career in human resources,...
