Quantum Workplace

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

The concept behind team-building is fantastic. The idea is to employees outside their normal activities, get them mingling with coworkers they don't normally interact with, and have fun while fostering teamwork. They give the workplace a nice employee engagement boost. Unfortunately, many team-building activities have the opposite effect. They can feel forced and unorganized, leaving employees to watch the clock and wonder why the event was scheduled in the first place.

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Ask a Manager

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

This comment section is open for any non-work-related discussion you’d like to have with other readers, by popular demand. (This one is truly no work and no school.). Book recommendation of the week: Family Trust , by Kathy Wang. I got an advance copy of this and I devoured it. It’s about a patriarch who has long promised his family he’s leaving them a fortune when he goes, his two kids, his ex-wife, and his second wife — and how things unravel and come back together for all o

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Quantum Workplace

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

The concept behind team-building is fantastic. The idea is to employees outside their normal activities, get them mingling with coworkers they don't normally interact with, and have fun while fostering teamwork. They give the workplace a nice employee engagement boost. Unfortunately, many team-building activities have the opposite effect. They can feel forced and unorganized, leaving employees to watch the clock and wonder why the event was scheduled in the first place.

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Team Building Employee Engagement Exercises 58

SHRM

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

Service projects, ‘mystery trips’ are among employers’ alternatives s the annual company holiday party still a thing? In recent years, many companies have downsized their holiday parties to less lavish affairs or hosted other types of events that replaced the traditional after-hours holiday soiree. The decision whether to host a holiday party may come down to cost or employee interest.

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Speaker: Ann Meyers Piccirillo

HR Compliance is like a giant game of whack-a-mole. Once you think your company is compliant with all policies and procedures documented and in place, there’s a new or amended law, regulation, or final rule that pops up landing you back at ‘start.’ There are shifts, interpretations, and balancing acts to understanding compliance changes. Keeping up is not easy and it’s very time consuming.

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The SHRM Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

Service projects, ‘mystery trips’ are among employers’ alternatives s the annual company holiday party still a thing? In recent years, many companies have downsized their holiday parties to less lavish affairs or hosted other types of events that replaced the traditional after-hours holiday soiree. The decision whether to host a holiday party may come down to cost or employee interest.

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Evil HR Lady

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

On Thursday, thousands of Google employees walked out on their jobs to protest how the tech giant handles sexual harassment complaints. The organizers, Claire Stapleton, Tanuja Gupta, Meredith Whittaker, Celie O’Neil-Hart, Stephanie Parker, Erica Anderson, and Amr Gaber, made their demands known at The Cut. Unlike the coal miners in the 1800s, every Google employee could find a new job and walk away.

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