Workers too busy to peel oranges at lunch
A market research firm in Britain has an interesting take on why consumption of one citrus fruit has declined over the last year.
Leadership & Strategy
Dog mayor of town has died
Under the Unusual Employee Department: The mayor of Rabbit Hash, KY, a 12-year-old Labrador retriever, has died.
Insurance against employee lawsuits: Worth the money?
Something to discuss with your CFO: Employment Practices Liability Insurance (EPLI). But before you do, get the key details about it.
Job application form helps catch robber
Out of all the possible uses for application forms, no one thought of this one: Catching a criminal.
Job benefits: All the grass you can eat
Businesses all over the world are looking for ways to cut costs. Turin, Italy, has figured out that it’s cheaper to hire sheep rather than people to take care of lawn maintenance in city parks.
Identifying who's a leader — and who's not
Too many times, people get placed in managerial jobs for all the wrong reasons, and they make all the wrong moves. Funny thing is, most of those who don’t succeed at managing gave off all the signals that they wouldn’t work out, but no one was listening.
Departing employees: Watch out during the notice period
Imagine this: An employee is leaving on good terms … at least you think it’s on good terms. How nervous should you be during the employee’s notice period?
Shopkeeper's good intention yields warning from police
From the “no-good-deed-goes-unpunished department” comes this story from overseas. The woman was just trying to help her customers.
What would you do? They think they're getting shortchanged after seeing Web salary 'estimates'
Periodically, we ask three HR managers how they’d handle a difficult situation at work. Today’s problem: Employees are surfing the Web and finding their salaries are too far below the Web “estimates” for their jobs.
