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In honor of Halloweeen Week on KnowHR, we decided to see how many of you show up at work in costume. But we’re not talking about Halloween costumes—we’re talking about masking your personality in the workplace every day.
We polled Philadelphia employees and learned that forty percent of you adopt a more professional [...]

I’ll be on Steve Boese’s radio show tonight along with Mike VanDervort, and China Gorman, COO of SHRM. The topic: Is HR Dead?
Thursday, October 29 – 8PM ET Does HR really need to disappear? Is the whole idea of a central department to help manage all of an organization’s talent really a relic? If [...]

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UNICEF once conducted a national campaign for children to raise funds for the charity while trick-or-treating. This is a lesson where you must learn to stop being so greedy. Take one piece of candy, only when offered, and stop hoarding it in your desk drawers. Didn’t you know the cleaning staff goes [...]

Wanna hear something really scary? Those Northwest pilots who overflew the Minneapolis airport by 150 miles were distracted because they were using their laptops. Know why? Because their employee communication was written by zombies.
From news reports, the pilot and co-pilot were talking about their questionable employee communication, according to the Minneapolis Star-Tribune:
The pilots said they [...]

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It’s Halloween week on KnowHR, so let’s start off with something scary: President Obama just signed a National Emergency Declaration on H1N1.
Declaring Section 1335 basically allows health care systems to act faster on disaster plans, if necessary. This was also declared during the North Dakota flooding in 2009, Hurricanes Ike and Gustav in [...]