Virgin Calculated the Value of a Bad Candidate Experience, And the Results are Astounding!
Every company desires to retain and attract more customers. And all efforts must be in place to block all channels of losing one. Surprisingly, a recent study found that ...
Microsoft Will Require Vendors to Offer Paid Parental Leave
Microsoft will begin requiring its vendors and contractors to offer their U.S. employees paid parental leave if they want to work with the tech giant. In a new policy ann...
San Francisco’s Minimum Wage Increase Effective July 1
Starting July 1, employees working in the hilly city of San Francisco must be paid $15 an hour. San Francisco’s new Consideration of Salary History ordinance will go in...
Apple Employees Get Standing Desk: Tim Cook Says ‘Sitting is The New Cancer.’
Apple CEO Tim Cook recently disclosed a new detail about Apple work environment: the introduction of standing desk for all Apple employees. “Everyone gets a standin...
Walmart Offers Its US Employees Tuition Benefit
The world’s second-largest employer and largest retailer Walmart has introduced a new tuition benefit for its employees and eligible family members in the US. Intro...
CEO of World’s Largest Luggage Maker Resigns After Resume Scandal
On Friday, world’s largest luggage maker Samsonite announced its CEO stepped down following allegations that he lied on his resume. A research report issued by U.S.-bas...
Workaholic Americans Are Not Taking Vacation Days: Are You One of Them?
In 1971, American psychologist Wayne Oates wrote “Confessions of a Workaholic: The Facts about Work Addiction,” adding a word to the American lexicon; the Oxford Engl...
Starbucks Once Again Sets The Precedent As The Most Progressive Company In The World
Many believe racial training programs the corporate version of, “But I have a black friend”. While some say unconscious bias training at work would accomplish little ...
Africa’s Largest Architecture Practice Pledges to Take Action on Gender Diversity
Africa’s largest architecture practice, Boogertman + Partners has responded to its Move the Needle Initiative by promising to tackle gender pay gap. According to th...
Facebook’s Head of Security is Leaving Amid Data Scandal
As Facebook scandal increasingly become more dooming, the departure of its Chief Security Officer (CSO), Alex Stamos is looking inevitable as a result of internal dispute...
Foster + Partner Releases Gender Pay Gap Report and the Numbers are Not Surprising
In 2017 the UK government made it mandatory for employers with 250 or more employees to publish their gender pay gap report on their respective public-facing websites. Th...
Iceland Mandates Equal Pay Law To Break Down Last of The Gender Barriers in The Workplace
Iceland has taken a monumental step in its attempt to close the gender pay gap. A new law makes equal pay for equal work a must in the country – regardless of gender, e...
Communicate And Train To Retain Top Performing Employees
No business works just because the boss is good. In order for the company to flourish, they must recruit good employees whose work speaks for themselves and reflects grea...
I Hope My Boss Takes the Hint (I know IKEA did!)
In my first year at a company, I got a book titled “50 Jobs Worse Than Yours.” Hilarious sure, and it was also a pretty interesting read – at least, that’s what m...
The Future of Coworking For Women is Here And It’s Called The Wing
Noted public policy expert Anne-Marie Slaughter, in her book called Unfinished Business, made waves when she, in a very scuttle way said that resocializing men to accept ...
The Top Ten: World’s Best Employers of 2017
What makes a company a great place to work? A great company culture, an inspiring leader, conscientious colleagues, a generous compensation and enough parking space for e...
