One of the purposes of good Human Resources is to prevent lawsuits. But your HR person and your employment attorney don’t follow you around all
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What You Can Learn About Discriminatory HR Policies From Equinox’s $11.25 Million Defeat
Röbynn Europe worked as a personal trainer manager for Equinox, a fitness center. They fired her after 10 months for being late an excessive number
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Uber’s ‘Karen’ Problem: What DEI Training Is Supposed to Look Like
While we can all agree that calling a white woman “a Karen” (which is different than someone whose name is Karen) is offensive, and we
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Your Manager Loves You. Here’s Why Your Raise Is Awful
A reader sent me an email asking if a “1.75 percent raise” was appropriate for a salary in the $90,000 range. “It’s like giving a waitress
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Debunking the ‘Don’t Fall in Love’ Hot Take
When is the best point in your career to marry? This “hot take” by Tim Kempton, who advises startups, went viral on Twitter: Hot take:
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7 Questions Tough Job Candidates Will Ask. Be Prepared
The days of people accepting a job–any job–are long since past. People have options and don’t want to join companies that don’t match their goals and
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The Surprising Source of Most of Your Problems
Do problems seem to plague you wherever you go? Are you always passed up for promotions? Have you struggled to get new jobs? Is your personal life filled
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Survey: Too Fat? Too Thin? Not Hired
People instinctively know that hiring managers want to hire skinny people. But a new survey from Resume Builder found that 42 percent of underweight people feel that
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50 Most Annoying Business Phrases of 2023 Revealed
Everyone says they hate jargon, but we still use it. It serves a purpose–we all know what you mean when you say, “per my last
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The 50 Most Annoying Office Jargon Phrases
Expecting all your coworkers to understand your jargon is just blue-sky thinking. Maybe we should brainstorm or action a project so that going forward we can think outside of the box and make sure we are
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A Business Leader Finds Out the Hard Way Not to Give Advice
You run a business. You hire people. You may have found some great people, and you may have found a question that you think is fantastic,
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A Message for Out-of-Touch CEOs: It’s Time for Emotional Intelligence in the C-Suite
“I had an old boss who said to me one time, ‘You can visit pity city, but you can’t live there.’ So people, leave pity
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I Installed an AI Bot on My Website and It Immediately Lied
I’ve been playing with ChatGPT for weeks now and am helping HR professionals use it to make their jobs easier. I saw a recommendation for companies to
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Your Co-Worker is a Slacker. Here’s Why She Gets Special Privileges
This #throwbackthursday post covers one of the most annoying things in the workplace: Perceived unfairness. Your co-worker seems to get special treatment all the time,
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Society For Human Resources Leader Brags about Outsourcing
What is the purpose of your Human Resources department? The Society for Human Resources Management (SHRM). This is the largest Professional HR society in the United
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When You Can–and When You Can’t–Fire People on FMLA
The Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) has been around since 1993, so for many, if not most, of the workforce, it’s always been there. If
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McDonald’s Conducts Layoffs With a Weird McTwist
McDonald’s recently announced layoffs of corporate staff. That’s not unusual, especially since they announced in January that “the sprawling company operated in too many silos, leading
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Are You Paying Your Employees Too Much?
This #TBT post is from 10 years ago. A different time. I do think some companies continue to pay some of their employees too much,
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Stop Using Traditional Icebreakers and Do Improv Instead
Whenever you meet with a new group, the leader inevitably wants to do some “icebreakers.” The motivation is good–a team functions better when they know and understand
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When AI Meets HR: Prepare Your Policies Now
There are many amazing things about ChatGPT and other Ai tools that are available. AI can do everything from write your headlines for you to
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