Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter will come with turnover. Some employees will leave, and there is nothing anyone can do about this. That’s normal in the case of new management. But, Musk’s purchase of Twitter has been anything but ordinary. The NY Post describes Twitter employees as “apoplectic,” while the calmer Washington
I’m super thankful for my administrative assistant. Without her, I’d fall apart. I’m thankful for teachers. Without them, I’d have never gotten to where I am today. I’m thankful for nurses. Without them, our healthcare would be rotten. These three professions have national days that we celebrate. And
You don’t want to bring someone into your company that tests positive for amphetamines! That conjures up images of Walter White. You don’t need that in your workplace. So it may seem perfectly logical that International Paper Co. withdrew a job offer from a man who tested positive
I’m a big fan of salary transparency. I don’t want people to get paid less simply because they don’t know what the market rate is. I wrote about this at Workable here: Salary transparency: Good thing for employees – and employers? I had the opportunity to talk with Neelie
“Almost anytime is a good time for alcohol in Jude Maboné’s office these days. “The 26-year-old marketing professional in Washington, D.C., says her workday usually ends at 6 p.m., but on a recent Tuesday most of the staff called it quits and broke out the drinks at 4:30
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is intended to make life easier for people with disabilities. It doesn’t always go that way–immediately after the law went into effect, employment for disabled individuals dropped. Companies were scared they would have to provide expensive accommodations. Don’t be scared about the accommodations–the law
If anyone has the data on trends, it’s Google. So, if everyone wants to work from home, you’d expect Google to know and plan their business around it, but instead, they are actively contributing to the new office space trends. “It might seem counterintuitive to step up our
Imagine a light-hearted TikTok video saying, “We openly discriminate against older people!” It would probably go viral, but not in a positive fashion. But flip that and say, “POV: you start a new company, and you only hire Gen Z,” and you get praise for it. This is what
The worst job I ever had was for Kmart. It was the summer of 1992, and I took a summer job at Kmart after my first year of college. It was close to our house, and they were hiring, so why not? Even though I was 19 and
I had a long conversation with a delightful woman yesterday. I asked her what she did for a living and she said she was a stripper. After ensuring that she was not joking, I asked her a bunch of questions about her job. Here’s what we have in
