HP Layoffs : Is it a symptom of continued employee mismanagement or a drastic attempt to balance a tilting ship – Hear from HP Employees.  HP is in a “Severe cost cutting environment. Too much focus on reducing workspace and headcount”..from an employee..Read More.. The recent layoffs at Hewlett Packard seem to have struck a raw nerve with employees.  When HP first announced that they were laying off 8% of their workforce, or some 27,000 … Continue reading →

By the year 2025, millennials will make up 75 percent of the workforce in the United States. Right now, they’re either just now starting their first “real” job or putting their first foot forward towards a long-lasting career. With tech skills from an adolesence of computers and the internet, millennials are offering what older employees often can’t. Big companies, such as Deloitte, have taken notice and been proactive about hiring the youngest working generation. Knowing how … Continue reading →

At one point or another, you’ve been mistaken for an employee of a store. You accidentally dressed yourself in an outfit that resembles the store’s uniform and the locals can’t stop asking you questions. This happens all the time in Target. For the most part, all you need to be wearing is a red shirt for a stranger to ask you where they can find light bulbs, peanut butter and greeting cards. But it isn’t … Continue reading →

Few would argue with the statement that outsourcing has helped American companies increase profitability. At one point, it made good business sense. Scores of firms cropped up that could do the work more efficiently and less expensively. It was a win-win for the client, the outsourcing agency and the employees who were hired to do the job. Companies could hire just-in-time workers to get work done when they needed it done, without the overhead required … Continue reading →

After taking a survey among my peers, I found that we are all paying closer attention to the origin of particular products – especially those that we are giving our kids.      I guess you can chock it all up to recent product scares from plants outside the U.S. that use lead paint on children’s lunch boxes or manufacture tainted melamine milk powder for use in chocolate. It’s no wonder that people are paying closer attention … Continue reading →

What if managers could hear the innermost thoughts of their employees? Like Mel Gibson, in the popular movie, “What Women Want” — which grossed nearly 2 million dollars at the box office earlier this decade – managers might be able to increase the productivity and success of their staff. Many employees say that communication and rapport with their supervisor is one of the most important factors that can either make or break job satisfaction. “One … Continue reading →

In today’s uncertain economic climate, it’s not surprising that job security and generous employee benefits top the list when it comes to what employees value the most.   According to the Society for Human Resource Management’s (SHRM’s) 2010 Employee Job Satisfaction survey, for the fourth year in a row, employees ranked job security and benefits as the top two “very important contributors to job satisfaction over other factors such as career development, flexibility and compensation. … Continue reading →