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Video content is an increasingly important method of communication. Global Internet video traffic is forecasted to be 82% of all consumer Internet traffic by the end of 2022, while 18% of consumer Internet traffic will comprise consumers browsing websites, reading articles, skimming e-mails, and scrolling through nonvideo social media posts. To attract today’s jobseeker, storytelling […]
Many of us have worked in a workplace that didn’t talk openly about pay. Employees didn’t want to disclose their salaries for fear their peers would think they were over- or underpaid, and employers were more than happy to keep quiet. (Some even issued gag orders.) All that is changing—fast. New laws from bellwether states […]
Courts have long favored arbitration as a method of dispute resolution under the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA). In 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court reinforced the policy favoring arbitration agreements in Epic Systems Corp. v. Lewis. The Court ruled that the FAA requires enforcement of arbitration agreements that fall within its scope, including agreements in which […]
Most organizations like when their employees go above and beyond the letter of their job description. In some cases, this discretionary effort is an expectation; indeed, there are companies that could not function without it. Efforts to build a strong company culture and boost engagement will of course benefit individual employees but also make it […]
Quiet quitting, or the practice of employees’ doing just enough to get by without being fired, seemed to many American workers like a brilliant way to capitalize on a historically tight labor market. Rather than going the extra mile to receive a promotion or a raise, quiet quitters have been satisfied with coasting along and […]
We’ve all been in a position where our technical skills helped us get a promotion. But you also need the emotional element if you want to hold a better leadership position, as it enables you to connect with others, offer feedback, deal with stress, and train teams effectively. You must be thinking: What is that […]
A factory worker sued her employer, alleging the company discriminated against her based on her race by allowing a hostile work environment to pervade its manufacturing plant. She also claimed it retaliated against her for accusing a coworker of tampering with her machine. Let’s take a look at how the U.S. 4th Circuit Court of […]
It’s no secret that we’re all sitting more than we should and that it has negative consequences for both our physical and our mental health. Research shows that this inactivity also has economic implications for employers, costing companies hundreds of thousands of dollars per year. As the pandemic subsides and we settle into a new […]
Employers and employees alike have probably heard a lot about the increasing value being placed on so-called “soft skills,” or those skills that fall outside of industry-specific technical abilities that are often top of mind in employee searches. But “soft skills” isn’t as specific as it could be. Many applicants and employers, while now generally […]
People can hold grudges for a long time. But when a manager is holding a grudge against an employee, how long can that grudge continue? Well, in one case, a manager held a grudge against an employee for 11 years. The case comes to us out of Utah, where a former sheriff’s department firearms instructor […]