Sweet Reason with a dose of Common Sense
IT ALWAYS SEEMED too good to be true. Back in 2019, I questioned a relatively new employment practice that a lot of companies were pushing at the time — unlimited paid time off, better known as PTO. I didn’t think much of it back then, and the debate hasn’t changed much since I wrote about
Editor’s Note: Have a great Fourth of July. We’ll be taking off some time and back July 8. IT WAS A HEADLINE that grabbed me because what it said was pretty amazing. The story was in Worklife, a website I don’t look at very often … until somebody flags a headline like this — Over
JOSH BERSIN IS A MAN with many predictions. He’s known from his role as a long-time technology analyst and frequent keynote speaker. In fact, Josh headlines so many of these events that I posed this question over on TLNT after last October’s big HR Technology event in Las Vegas: “What will conferences like this do
DO YOU KNOW WHAT GRABS my attention? It’s stories that say that HR leaders are getting battered by crises that are leading to burnout and higher turnover, and that managing a workforce in flux is causing “chaos for HR professionals.” For the love of SHRM, what is going on with human resources today? It seems that even though we’re finally recovering from the global
LAST SPRING I COVERED the HR Transform conference in Las Vegas for a website I founded and used to edit — TLNT.com. I also attended HR Transform last year, and it’s a smart conference that’s clearly on the rise. I recommend it to anyone who is looking for a cutting-edge event in the HR and talent management space. When
I CAN HARDLY contain myself when I hear people touting the wonders of “unlimited” PTO. That’s because “unlimited” paid time off is really just a big fairy tale. I know … that sounds pretty harsh because there are a number of companies that have gone to “unlimited” PTO, and they will defend it to the
IT’S BEEN NEARLY 20 years since I’ve been in Hawaii, but the moment I arrived back in Honolulu last January, it felt like I had never left. My connection with the Aloha State goes back a long way. Not only did my wife and I honeymoon on Waikiki, but we lived on Oahu for three years in
