This should have been the trend in the first place, instead of one-size fits all RTO. In the article from LinkedIn I commented on, which I include below this article, high performers are cited as the workers who should get work from home options. High performing workers are typically early starters that get ahead of […]
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This post got quite a bit of play on LinkedIn, so I thought it would appropriate to share it with clients and potential clients on my blog: Companies should carefully consider “why” they feel the need to make every employee return to the office five days a week. This is far more about “controlling people”
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If you treat your employees as if they are a “cost” or “resource” and not as a human, or don’t care about them except as a potential source of revenue, you hamper your company’s ability to be successful. Treat your employees the way you would treat your most valued client and watch your company
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It can be a big struggle for people to take vacation or even just a few days off. Workers often feel that work and work emails will pile up so much that it will create undue stress. I highly advise my clients to unplug, get away, and stop thinking about work, as it will be
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Most often it isn’t the job posting or the overall impression of the company you get from research, it’s the interview that tells the story. Make sure you ask questions in an interview, and do not wait until the end. If the interviewer(s) can’t have a conversation with you throughout the interview, where you both
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This is a recent article where I shared a little about how companies are shocked that jobseekers might ghost them as well. Ghosting is a huge problem, and the biggest irony, as your comment pointed out, jobseekers are doing this to companies. From scheduling interviews and not showing up, to being AWOL for the first
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This article dovetails with the “bad manager” article comments posted last week. Micromanagers are one of the worst type of “bad managers,” as they lack trust in their employees, need to always have ultimate control, and over-manage their every task. The sad thing is that micromanagers don’t think they are micromanaging. I had a family
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A current topical article discussed the danger of bad managers. From loss of your best employees to de-motivation of your workforce, bad managers and leaders run amok creating turmoil. My comment to the article originally featured on LinkedIn is below: Companies will never retain their best employees until they invest in training for managers. They
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How many times have you heard the statement to be careful what you post online? Well, it turns out that companies are exploiting information they can access in the public domain about job candidates, including those posts you wish you had never made. Whether full-time, part-time, contract or temporary worker, a company may wish to know just
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Workforce Perspective: Zety, a job search/job seeker targeted publisher, polled 926 American workers regarding HR, and their thoughts on various issues in dealing with HR. You can find the report at https://zety.com/blog/is-hr-human to view the full study. Here are some of the results: 37% of people won’t report being sexually harassed at work. 43% won’t report discrimination. 84% won’t report a fellow worker not doing
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