Saturday morning, I was on a train from Basel, Switzerland, to Bern, and the sun was at just the right level to blind me, so I pulled the shade down. At the first stop, a woman got on, sat down across from me, and immediately raised the window
I heard you. Out Front HR is a conference for the HR people who support shift workers. But when I announced it, the free ticket only let you attend live. That doesn’t make much sense if you’re covering a shift, dealing with a staffing emergency, or simply can’t
HR is a white-collar function trying to manage a blue-collar workforce. This isn’t to say there aren’t white-collar workforces, but 80 percent of employees are frontline workers, and when HR is focused on a laptop-driven world, we know it won’t work in the warehouse. HR needs to be
The internet is having a meltdown over a recruiter’s advice: Don’t bring an iced coffee to a job interview. A TikToker called Caitlin Recruiter posted this TikTok warning Gen Z applicants to skip Starbucks on their way to their job interviews. Caitlin explains: “When you show up with
I was at a social event with a manager, “John,” who told me what he thought was a “funny” story. The story was about a former employee–who had been gone for almost a year. She had come to him to complain about coworkers who were using slurs around
Dear Evil HR Lady, I started my current job in April. When I accepted the job, I had a hard time deciding between it and another offer from a similar company. The deciding factor was that I really liked the manager of the group I was interviewing with
Whew! Compliance training is finished. Everyone knows precisely what they are supposed to do, and HR can breathe a sigh of relief until next year when you need to run the training again. But we all know that training isn’t enough. You have to reinforce the training, and
Are you battling employees who feel they should earn more, work less, and do meaningful work instead of submitting expense reports on time? You’re not alone. Deloitte’s Gen Z and Millennial survey found that “96 percent of Gen Zs and 97 percent of millennials say that having a sense
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I shared this amazing picture on Facebook and most people laughed about the Olan Mills style photo. (Side note: what on earth were we thinking in the 1970s/1980s?) One person gave me a lecture on how I was stealing jobs from real photographers and artists by using ChatGPT