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
If you prefer to read, Neelie helpfully included this roundup–not a complete transcript as she probably got bored typing all my “umms” HR lessons from 2020 SL: There are so many things that we’ve learned in HR this year. One of those things indeed goes back to working from home because
With social media, you can chat with friends, share funny memes, and tweet angry things into the internet void. Social collaboration uses the same tools (and can include the same behaviors), but the goals are different; this is the business side of social media. In this article, we’ll
Even though I spent Halloween in my apartment watching Hocus Pocus with my children and had precisely two trick-or-treaters that were pre-arranged, I saw hundreds of costumed children in my Facebook feed. You no longer have to do things in-person to know what goes on in your friends’
Neelie from AIHR: Can you write an article for us?Me: Sure. Any topics?Neelie: Perhaps how in the ^*!&#$ HR is supposed to prepare for 2021? Ahh, this is such a good question. HR people have to plan – we have cyclical things we plan for. We know that
Unemployment is through the roof, and there are absolutely no jobs available right now. Or, is it: Companies are desperate to hire and cannot get enough qualified applicants? It’s both. And it’s peculiar. COVID has split the hiring world between high unemployment in some sectors and people scrambling
I talk about when things get back to “normal” all the time, but that’s never happening. We will be creating a new normal after all the stay at home orders are lifted. What will HR look like in this new world? Well, here are some guesses. More knowledgeable
In the past, survey after survey showed that the majority of people want to work from home. Well, now we’ve had a chance. For the past six weeks or so, every job that could be done from home has been done from home. And you know what? It’s
Job interviews have been going on since, well, forever. I suppose when feudal lords ruled the lands, you got the job of being a peasant by not dying, but since then, it’s involved a job interview. And, it must be time for a change. Some companies are starting
