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...
A ‘Strong Travel Culture’ Pays off for Companies
The survey conducted by Harvard Business Review and Analytic Services included 587 business leaders. 58% of the respondents agree that having a strong travel culture brin...
Americans Don’t Have Access To Retirement Plans
We’re getting older. But that’s not the ugly, unspoken truth. For the first time, Americans as a whole aren’t saving nearly enough for retirement. According to data...
US Jobless Claims Fall; Single Mothers and Minorities Face Lower Barriers in Jobs Market
US Jobless claims dropped to 209,000 in the week ended July 6, which included the July 4 holiday, according to Labor Department data released Thursday. The closely watch...
Asian Cities Most Expensive for Expats, New Mercer Survey Finds
Hong Kong ranks first in Mercer’s annual Cost of Living Survey for the second consecutive year. Eight out of the top ten costliest cities for expats are Asian cities. ...
Organizations Strengthening Sex-Partition in the Workplace
Survey: Men in workplace evading solo interactions with women Sixty percent of male managers are uncomfortable participating in common work activity with a woman, such as...
Flexible Jobs Can Make Work Life Balance Harder, Study Finds
Flextime is supposed to promote and facilitate work-life balance. A study from Germany suggests otherwise. Men and women with children reported that flexible working left...
