In the past few months, 2,600 Google employees have signed a petition asking the company to do more about harassment–and to make HR investigations transparent, according to The Wall Street Journal. It’s one of the many changes going on at Google when it comes to employee communications. Google has encouraged
If an employee reports harassment to their manager, is it the responsibility of the manager to report it to HR? What should if the employee doesn’t want the complaint to go to HR, and the manager doesn’t want to lose the employee’s trust? And, what should a manager
For years and years, recruiters and hiring managers have treated employees terribly. They ghost candidates–even after the candidate has come in for multiple interviews. They’ve required multiple interviews over multiple days, requiring candidates to use their vacation time for their own jobs, and then not even bothering to let the
Everyone knows that they need to take care of their health, but when it comes to truly understanding health insurance, how good are your employees? According to a recent study, not very. The International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans found that: Approximately half of employees don’t understand employee benefit materials
I start a new job next week. I’ll be 25 weeks pregnant. I interviewed really early on and didn’t disclose “just in case”. I was contacted a month later with an offer. At this point, I am bordering fat and pregnant depending on what I am wearing. I
What does diversity mean, exactly? What makes a workplace diverse? We use this word so often as a synonym for racial diversity that we forget there are all types of diversity. According to Merriam-Webster, diversity simply means “an instance of being composed of differing elements or qualities.” Therefore, every
Depression isn’t limited to a few. Over 300 million people, globally, suffer from it. This means it’s quite likely that you know someone who is currently in its grasp, and it isn’t pleasant. Left untreated, depression can literally be deadly. You don’t want to let anyone suffer without
What constitutes cruelty at the office? Someone asked on Quora “What was the cruelest thing a company has ever done to you as an employee?” You may be prepared for stories of confiscating passports or not wage theft, and those things are cruel. But the things people wrote about
One of the big problems with US sexual harassment law is that it depends on feelings. The “victim” must feel offended in order for sexual harassment to occur. That means there are no bright lines (other than criminal ones) that determine what is and what is not sexual harassment. While
Sometimes it seems that managers do nothing while their employees do all the work. So why should managers make more money to sit in air-conditioned offices and do paperwork while everyone else works hard? There is a difference between managing and doing, and in many cases (but certainly not all cases),
