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CEO of fast-growing local company got his start mowing yards

Professional Alternatives

Myers founded Professional Alternatives — which employs 17 — in 1999, and today it ranks on Houston Business Journal’s 2013 Fast 100 list, which is based on revenue growth from 2010 to 2012. And we’ll introduce you to the companies day by day up until the event. The 2013 Houston Fast 100 Awards Ceremony will be held Sept.

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Rising Team closes $8M funding round with plans to deepen AI investment

HR Brew

Typical offerings focused on building engagement—such as learning management systems or off-site events—are ill-suited to support managers, Dulski suggested, particularly in a hybrid or virtual environment. A recent Gallup report found engagement among US employees dropped to 30% in Q1 2024, the lowest level since 2013. “I

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Thank you for making ACE 2013 our most successful event yet!

Achievers

A CE 2013 is barely over and we’re already on to the next adventure (come see us at #HRTechConf if you’re here), but we wanted to take a moment to share some of the wonderful experiences we had. Yvette Cameron (@YvetteCameron) October 3, 2013. Triphina Wirth (@Pheena123) October 3, 2013. Bobby B (@bobbmob) October 4, 2013.

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Layoffs (Usually) Don’t Work and Why They Harm More Than Help

Workplace Psychology

Coping with job loss or the danger of losing one’s job is a major source of stress (Riggio, 2013). Landy & Conte (2013) explained that because a worker may continue to have strong affective, continuance, or normative commitments to the organization, a job loss can be devastating. “[R]esearch 17): Severance and rehiring costs.

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Stop Spying on Social Media

HRExecutive

Pier Sixty, LLC, Hernan Perez, a server at New York-based event venue Pier Sixty, vented his frustrations with his manager in an expletive-laden Facebook post he published during a scheduled break. In 2013, a judge ruled that Pier Sixty had violated the National Labor Relations Act by discharging Perez in retaliation for protected activity.

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I disabled my coworker’s caps-lock key, employee calls me his “manageress,” and more

Ask a Manager

2013. You may also like: my coworker uses all-caps for everything, can I ask my office to stop swearing, and more low performers in my office are paraded around and forced to wear dunce caps I showed up drunk to a work event. While some people might not be put off by it, enough will that it’s too much of a risk.

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4 Takeaways from the HCCA 2019 Compliance Institute

Precheck

The Compliance Institute offers the opportunity to learn about the latest developments and priorities from regulators, and this year’s event was no exception. The OIG Special Advisory Bulletin from 2013 is my ‘Exclusions Bible’,” Carey Cothran , Chief Privacy Officer at Piedmont Healthcare, stated during an exclusions breakout session. “It