In HR, there’s lots of talk about employee engagement. Those discussions revolve around creating high involvement workplaces. But what does your work environment indicate about your possibilities of success to create the ideal place to work?
In Why to Not Not Start a Startup, writer Paul Graham writes about the creative urge and the unfortunate reality [...]

Scott Adams wrote a post that’s a powerful lesson for HR people who have to write for a living. (Don’t we all?) In The Day You Became a Better Writer, Mr. Adams says:
Business writing is about clarity and persuasion. The main technique is keeping things simple. Simple writing is persuasive. A good argument in five [...]

I saw this really great idea on Louise Fletcher’s Blue Sky Resumes site: Resume testimonials. She writes:
Marketers know the power of third-party testimonials. You see them all the time in TV ads and on websites. People claiming that this computer learning CD, or washing powder brand or cell phone changed their life. They’re ubiquitous because [...]

Benefits are free.
Well, butterflies are free, but benefits are not. In fact, companies spend 43% of their payroll on benefits, on average. So, what looks “free” to employees isn’t free at all.
In a story called “Do Employees ‘Get’ Benefits — Not,” writer Susan Heathfield summarizes recent research by Charleton Consulting Group that says employees significantly [...]

There’s a foreign worker hiring firestorm that’s spilled onto the political front pages. Sure, excesses in executive compensation is front page news, but hiring and H-1B visas?
This is nuts. Companies run fake ads so they can eliminate American workers and hire foreign workers? Say it ain’t so.
At least one law firm advises companies on [...]