We offer employees choices — and lots of them. Choice in healthcare. Choice in pay mix. Choice in training. And choice in career planning. Choice is good, right? Not really. In fact, employees are victimized by choice.
Professor Barry Schwartz’s research for The Paradox of Choice shows that having too many choices can make people [...]

Don’t trust anyone over 40.
Brazen Careerist: The New Rules for Success, provides a no BS, straight-talking, tell-you-what-to-do and-how-to-do-it twist on the 1960s counterculture phrase, “Don’t trust anyone over 30.” The book’s advice is aimed squarely at workers under 40.
It’s a career manual, a hip, irreverent What Color is Your Parachute for those who were [...]

Who does it to whom. That’s the rule of when to use “who” and “whom.” It’s as simple as that. Dan Santow, whose (another “who” word) Word Wise is a fun read, summarizes the who/whom “controversy”:
Okay, enough qualifying. Who is a subject. Whom is an object. Who does something. Whom has something done to it. [...]

Google’s employee stock options have come due. Bigtime. To the tune of $2 billion already vested and ready for cashout. That means there are a lot of Google employees who are moving from paper millionaires to real millionaires. That brought to mind the Clash’s “Should I Stay or Should I Go?” What would you do?

Let’s see…you conduct an annual employee survey. It’s filled with happy-happy-joy-joy questions like, “I like working here.” You collect up all the results. And wait. The you wait some more. Finally, you publish the survey results. And they’re met with an orchestra of the world’s tiniest violins playing “I Don’t Care.”
Sound familiar?
Employee surveys can be [...]