Tesla Cuts Pay and Furloughs Employees after Closing Factories
Tesla has decided to halt operations in all its U.S. factories until May 4 due to the COVID-19 spread in the country. The company will also be implementing pay cuts rangi...
Starbucks Announces 30 Days’ Pay For Workers And Serves Drive-thru Orders Only
Starbucks, the coffee chain company, announced Friday that its company-operated stores in the United States and Canada will move to drive-through and delivery mode only f...
A Majority of Workers Fear Layoffs & Cuts Due to Coronavirus Closures
Monster recently conducted two polls to analyze and take a more in-depth look into the perspectives of both employees and employers during the present Coronavirus pandemi...
Coronavirus & the Gender Pay Gap: An Update
The gender pay gap has been in existence in the society all the time, and now Coronavirus has worsened it. Women don’t need the Coronavirus virus to experience reduced ...
March Madness or a Time to Bond and Engage at the Workplace?
March Madness grips all of the United States during the NCAA season when 64 college basketball teams fight it out for the top place. Spring heralds a change of season and...
Google Asks All Employees in North America To Work From Home
Amidst fears of the COVID-19 Coronavirus spreading, Google has asked all its North American employees to work from home till at least April 10. The United States has over...
Overused Office Jargon That Leads You Nowhere
My exposure to office jargon was when as a rookie sub to a well-known editor on a financial daily, I was asked to give a report ASAP. And ignorant me hesitantly asked him...
Super Blues for Employers on Super Bowl Monday; Losses Run Into Billions
Absent, distracted, and disengaged employees on Super Bowl Monday could cost U.S. employers billions in lost productivity. ...
STUDY: Less Negative Spillover of Paid Parental Leave than Hyped
Employers give paid paternal leave in almost all high-income nations. It has been introduced to decrease gender inequality and for bonding with children. It includes leav...
HR Leaders of the Year 2019
The Human Resource industry has seen some significant changes in the last two decades. Earlier, HR personnel were the backroom boys whose job was more of an administrator...
Married BlackRock Executive Fired For Failing To Disclose Office Romance
BlackRock’s head of human resources, Jeff Smith, who suddenly left the company in July, was apparently fired for indulging in an office romance with a colleague, report...
Best Paid Jobs of 2019 | Glassdoor
Healthcare professionals are outperforming the computer geeks of the world in salary stakes, according to some surveys. The best paid jobs of 2019 are in healthcare, info...
Brookings Report : AI Will Heavily Affect White-collar Jobs
The fourth industrial revolution of intense technology has come with doomsday predictions for the workforce in certain industries. Earlier, the wave of automation led to ...
California’s Assembly Bill 5 (AB-5) Threatens to Rain on the Gig Economy Parade
California’s Assembly Bill 5 (“AB-5”) that radically alters the definition of an “employee” so that companies can no longer misclassify would-be employees as in...
General Motors Terminates Healthcare of Striking UAW Members
In a desperate attempt to kill the United Automobile Workers (UAW) strike against General Motors, the Detroit automaker announced a decision to shift healthcare costs to ...
STUDY: People Find Robots As Less Threatening Than Human Replacements in A Job Setting
Robots are starting to take human jobs, and it’s going to continue until machines handle 52 percent of jobs currently handled by hourly human workers. But this “robot...
