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Supporters of Vaping, E-Cigs Fight Back
There’s some real pushback under way to what I was thinking had become a generally agreed-upon vice worth eradicating from our streets, public arenas and workplaces: e-cigarette vaping. My eyebrows...
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‘HR Lady’s’ Security Breach
I’m imagining you, too, would stop your web browsing for one minute and read an article titled How we tricked your HR lady into giving us access to every customer’s credit card number. I obviously did....
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GE’s Commitment to Hiring Veterans
On the day after our 15th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks (considering all the soldier deployments and returns that followed), I thought it might be a good time to share this tidbit I’ve been...
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Ratedly Employee-Review Monitoring Site Rates
I guess my biggest surprise after speaking recently with Joel Cheesman — creator of the new Ratedly anonymous employee-review monitoring service for employers that launched in May — is that competitors...
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Tattoos at Work Can Be Positive?
Tattoos in the workplace — certainly not a new phenomenon. Almost a decade ago, HRE was airing the pros and cons of allowing this type of self-expression at work, and what employers could and couldn’t...
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Does Your Firm Support Well-Being?
Did you know employee engagement and employee well-being are two different things? I kind of did, but this research by Limeade and Quantum Workplace (pictured at left) made the differences about as...
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Being a Black Professional Woman
I’m probably wrong going into this: posting something about what it’s like to be a black woman in corporate America when I’m white. I probably don’t get extra points for being a member of a mixed-race...
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Just How Bad Are We at Engagement?
Engagement was certainly on the minds of speakers and attendees at the recent HR Tech Conference in Chicago. (Here’s a link to the conference site, FYI, which already has information about next year’s...
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Women’s Disparity, Dearth in STEM
When I was 10 years old, my father put a microscope/chemistry set under our Christmas tree — not for either of my studious siblings, but for me, the nutty little gymnastic tumbler who rarely stopped...
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Spooky Report on ACA Filings
I was trying to think of a good, scary post to share on Halloween when this alert from Tango Health came across my screen. It includes an article published recently by the National Law Review, noting...
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Answering the Cancer Call
It’s nice to see efforts continuing at a healthy pace to help employers and employees deal with one of the scariest threats to corporate health — the growth of cancer in our aging workforce. The latest...
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Yet More to Know About Millennials
We’ve certainly seen our share of divergent reports about millennials in the workplace. We’ve all seen and read the ones suggesting they’re a privileged generation with a less-than-stellar work ethic...
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Trump Win Good for Biz Women??
Not one for post-election posting here, but this LinkedIn piece by Sallie Krawcheck caught my eye. As a woman watching and weathering the campaign, and now the transition to a Trump presidency, I...
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A Bad-Behavior Hiring Predictor
Assessing job candidates for honesty and integrity is nothing new in hiring and HR. Employers have been concerned about who exactly is working for them — their moral fiber, if you will — long before...
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Disability Stigma Alive and Well
Came across this post on LinkedIn the other day, reminding us all about the importance of giving disabled Americans the chance to prove themselves in the workplace. Included in the general reminder by...
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Amex Joins Parental-Leave Parade
American Express is the latest to board the parental-leave bandwagon. It is announcing today a significant step up in its benefits, not just to new moms and dads, but to those wishing to be. The...
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Empty Nesters’ Emptying Coffers
Full disclosure: I’m a softy when it comes to helping my grown kids. I frequently find myself opening my wallet more than I should, especially during this “giving” holiday. Not that they ask for it,...
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Women’s Disparity, Dearth in STEM
When I was 10 years old, my father put a microscope/chemistry set under our Christmas tree — not for either of my studious siblings, but for me, the nutty little gymnastic tumbler who rarely stopped...
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Spooky Report on ACA Filings
I was trying to think of a good, scary post to share on Halloween when this alert from Tango Health came across my screen. It includes an article published recently by the National Law Review, noting...
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Answering the Cancer Call
It’s nice to see efforts continuing at a healthy pace to help employers and employees deal with one of the scariest threats to corporate health — the growth of cancer in our aging workforce. The latest...
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