If you want to know what HR has been doing this week, it’s been talking with people about the end of noncompete agreements under the new proposed FTC ban. On the one hand, CEOs (who generally have noncompetes themselves) panic that their employees will be free to cross the
When I was a teenager, my mother told me I should become a senator. Why? Because of this lovely little thing called the “filibuster,” where you could just keep talking forever and stop all Senate business until you either passed out, a la Mr. Smith Goes to Washington,
Good news for Dell employees! If they like their remote jobs, they can keep their remote jobs! They just won’t be considered for any promotions or internal transfers. While you may be shocked at this, it’s simply Dell saying the quiet part out loud. We know that CEOs
Men and women, it turns out, work in different realities. What one group perceives as fact, the other sees something different. As a woman who has studied and been in the workplace for more than 20 years I’ve often thought there is a gap between what we perceive and reality.
Catherine, Princess of Wales, colloquially still referred to as Kate Middleton, had surgery earlier this year. Even though the official message from the British Royal Family was that she would be off work and out of the public eye through the end of March, people are wondering what
Diversity, equity, and inclusion – often shortened to D&I or DEI – spiked as a topic of interest in 2020, especially with the rise of Black Lives Matter (BLM) and other movements in the public consciousness. Is it still on everyone’s minds in 2024? To understand how
The other day my friend Susan Brownfield told me about an article she read in the Huffington Post about how women over 50 are invisible. We laughed about this, as we are both over 50 and more visible than we have ever been. In fact, I just had
Dartmouth College – an Ivy League School – stopped requiring SAT/ACT scores for its applicants during the pandemic. Now that there aren’t health concerns in taking the test anymore, the college decided to take a look at whether they should reinstate these standardized tests as a requirement. The evidence
Massachusetts has joined 13 other states in removing the college degree requirement from many government jobs. The Brookings Institute describes this move as “low-cost ways to open state hiring processes to more applicants and improve economic mobility for qualified workers who have been largely excluded from state hiring systems.” The private
Everyone hates the WebMD come-back-to-the-office video, except for me and perhaps the people who made it. It was actually made by WebMD’s parent company, Internet Brands, but apparently WebMD is the division we all know about, so that’s what is getting the press. Note: this was published publicly
