Perfectionism Can Negatively Impact Businesses
When it comes to personality traits, few people would likely put perfectionism in the negative category. Surely being a perfectionist is better than being lazy, careless, or apathetic. Right?
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Bridging the Employee-Employer Divide: From Toxicity to Trust in the Age of AI
In recent years, a perfect storm of accelerating factors has roiled the corporate landscape. From the shockwaves of the pandemic to the ever-widening income gap between executives and their employees, there’s an evident and growing strain on the relationship between labor and management. If ‘The Great Resignation’ and ‘Quiet Quitting’ hadn’t tipped us off already, […]
Complaining Employees: Firing Workers Who Use E-Mail To Gripe Is Now Risky
E-mail has fast become an efficient and popular way of communicating in the workplace. But it has also raised legal issues for employers, ranging from privacy problems to possible liability for harassment when employees use e-mail to send off-color messages. Now there’s a new concern: if an employee sends an e-mail message criticizing your personnel […]
Threat Level Midnight, a/k/a There’s An Hour of My Life I’ll Never Get Back
It was another nonproductive workday at The Office. After 10 years, Michael’s little known, self-written, self-produced, self-directed, and self-starred-in movie, Threat Level Midnight, finally debuted in Scranton. Despite a private staff-only viewing a few years back in which the movie was mistakenly taken for a comedy (it’s really Michael’s rip-off of James Bond and Austin Powers […]
Company Raffle Sends Employees to Amazon—River, Not Website
A most unusual workplace raffle sends the winners, not to a posh resort, but to a remote part of the Amazon—and not for a vacation, but to work hard! Crius Energy, based in Stamford, Connecticut, told the Hartford Courant that it has been committed to the Amazon Preservation Project, started by Crius’s Viridian Energy division, […]
The Lack of Leadership Training Among Physicians
While some people are often seen as “born leaders,” anyone can benefit from leadership training. Often the born leaders identified by others may be charismatic but may still lack some of the basic leadership traits needed to effectively lead and develop others in complex environments and over the long term. Leadership training is a basic part […]
Infographic: It Cost How Much to Employ All Those Elves?
We all know the high costs associated with employee turnover—roughly $450 to $550 billion a year, which is why it’s vital you offer new hires a good onboarding experience, as well as a great company culture to keep them sticking around.
Is Telling Someone to Find Their Passion Really Good Career Advice?
Unless you’re born into a family of the super wealthy or win the lottery early in life, chances are you are going to spend the bulk of your adult life working at some kind of job.
Right Coast or Left Coast? Where Do Workers Sit the Most?
There’s always been a rivalry between the East Coast and the West Coast over quality-of-life issues. But a new survey asked a new question: “Where do workers spend the most time sitting—right coast or left?”
Workers Leaving Dream Jobs
Whether it’s a Hallmark movie or a slacker-made-good comedy, American popular culture is full of stories about people landing their so-called “dream jobs” and living happily ever after. The idea that doing what one loves is all that matters in a career is romantic yet simplistic. The current labor market is highlighting that reality for […]