Jason Seiden’s article How to Job-Proof Your Recession is fantastic. The author of How to Self-Destruct: Making the Least of What’s Left of Your Career calls people on the carpet for making stupid choices while times are tough.
Here are 10 easy ways to make sure that this recession flat out crushes you.
I know, I know, [...]

Person 1 in our office: What’s that called when someone tries to stab you in the back by not sending you a meeting notice?
Person 2 in our office. Corporate America.
Person 1 in our office: I meant “sabotage.”
Big laugh.
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For those of you who thought “Beastie Boys,” here’s the video for Sabotage.

What are you saying to your employees about saving in their 401(k)? Do you find it hard to give them good advice about saving for retirement when you’re scared yourself? How do you counteract the advice they’re getting from all their friends and relatives to save money under their mattresses?
These are the questions we [...]

I’ve been doing a lot of reading about pay transparency in the past few weeks. I get Google alerts. I watch for Twitter hashtags about it. I read blog articles. (I’ll be getting to those later this week.) There’s a lot of information out there. I have a personal view about what will happen if [...]

Our KnowHR Pay Transparency Survey got 609 responses. In addition to answering the four questions that we wrote about yesterday, we got several written responses to our questions, “If you opened the books on everyone’s pay and everyone knew what everyone else was paid, what problems would you anticipate?” and “Do you have any other [...]