For the past decade we have been studying employee engagement. We wanted to know why some people work so hard and smart and others, well, don’t. We’ve surveyed more than half a million employees in big companies and small. And after all this research? What we have found about motivation and effective management is actually […]
First Yahoo. Then Best Buy. Two major companies announced their decision to abolish their work-at-home policies. Is this a growing trend marking the end of telecommuting?
No. Survey results from outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas, Inc. found 80 percent of human resource executives responding currently offer some sort of telecommuting option and 97 percent said there are no plans to eliminate that benefit.
You can’t escape it. Presidential politics is daily headlines news. It’s also a popular topic of conversation. My husband and I ate dinner last night in a neighborhood restaurant and the people at the table next to us were in a heated debate over who would be the next President. And it’s only going to get worse.
Nearly everyone has an opinion when it comes to politics. And in many cases people are as impassioned about their political beliefs are as they are about their religious beliefs. The freedom to discuss both politics and religion openly and without free of repercussion is what makes this country great. However, there is a time and a place for everything and it’s best to check both at the politics and religion at the door when you come to work.