Sweet Reason with a dose of Common Sense
FIRST, AN APOLOGY: I’ve been writing a lot about recruiting and hiring recently. I’m really sorry for that. My intent was NOT to make this a talent management blog, and that’s easy for me since I worked and wrote about it for so damn long at so many places. But, I still see many things
WORKPLACE DATA COMES IN all shapes and sizes. It also highlights a variety of workplace issues. I try to showcase interesting data here. Sometimes I find it as I’m looking for things to share, but other times, the data finds me — usually courtesy of some PR or marketing professional. This data comes courtesy of a PR person working for blankcalendarpages.com, a company that touts itself as “a leading provider of
IF YOU’RE A BABY BOOMER, there’s a good chance you remember the animated TV show The Jetsons that was originally broadcast between September 1962 and March 1963. This popped up in a Fast Company story titled What The Jetsons got right, and very wrong, about the future of work. As Fast Company describes it, “The Jetsons was created by the Hanna-Barbera animation studio in Los Angeles as
ALTHOUGH THE RISE of remote and hybrid work has brought huge changes to the workplace, one thing hasn’t changed – when people work together, workplace romances usually follow. The Financial Post recently published a story that pointed out that, “Remote work hasn’t killed the office romance, but colleagues tempted to fall into each other’s arms might want to
I’M SURPRISED this didn’t happen sooner, but IBM, an early and vocal champion of a remote workforce, finally discovered what any remote worker could have told you years ago. The problem with remote work is that you work remotely. I know, I know — that sounds like double-talk. But as someone who worked in a
