It’s not ketamine that brought about the termination of a Netflix executive. It’s that he foolishly believed a “trust” exercise would be held confidentially. The New York Post reports Netflix terminated vice president and head of creative at Eyeline (owned by Netflix), Kevin Baillie, in part because he confessed to receiving
My popular webinar on Claude is back! You can register here: Get Real Work Done With Claude You Have More HR Work Than Hours in the Day. Claude Can Help — If You Use It Right. Job descriptions to write. Resumes to screen. Performance reviews to draft. Difficult
Have you ever wondered if your culture is terrible? Try this fishing test! Because, seriously, if no one believes that the company is offering a lunch or giving out a gift card, that means you’re not thinking about your employees. This is not to say that you have
If you have employees, you could face an employment lawsuit one day. It isn’t just something that “happens to other people.” Of course, the best way to avoid a lawsuit is not to break the law in the first place, but that doesn’t reduce your risk to zero. How
A few universities are cracking down not only on AI but on computers in general, and if you’re looking to hire people who can think, you should throw your support toward these schools. And then, perhaps, other schools will follow suit. It’s starting with the law schools, which makes sense,
Accountability does not fail in the moment of correction. It fails in the moments leading up to it. Accountability is often treated as a communication issue or a performance issue. Leaders are encouraged to be clearer, more direct, or more consistent in delivering expectations. Those adjustments help at
Ford fired an employee for stealing a $1.95 cookie. It was absolutely the wrong thing to do. Normally, I’m a big supporter of enforcing the small rules—after all, if you don’t enforce a rule, then the rule doesn’t exist. So, if you catch someone, on camera, stealing a cookie,
Most HR and benefits tools sound better in theory than they feel in practice. If you work in benefits, HR, payroll, compensation, recruiting, or people ops, you know when something actually makes sense for your role — and when it doesn’t. That’s the feedback companies want before they
“Fired within 3 hours of my first shift at a fast food joint” headlined a now-deleted Reddit post. The original poster went on to explain how the day went badly. They wrote: “Went there early, dressed properly for the job which was about helping with making burgers in a
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