Estimated reading time: 3 minutes Whenever I’m a participant in a training session or conference, I always walk away with more ideas than I have time. So, it’s important for me to prioritize which ideas I want to start right away and those I will want to implement later. I like using a SMART plan to do this. Those of you who regularly read HR Bartender know that I love …
Estimated reading time: 4 minutes Over the past couple of months, there’s been more than a few articles about employees being stressed and burned out. Issues related to employee wellbeing. It started with a group of first-year analysts at Goldman Sachs talking about their difficult working conditions, including being so overworked that they didn’t have time to bathe. Yes, you read that correctly. Let me just say what you’re probably …
I’ve written several times about the benefits and challenges of implementing a hybrid workforce. And I still believe that it’s true that employees want flexibility. They wanted flexibility before the pandemic, and they want it now. Creating a hybrid workforce isn’t easy. It involves looking at the current operation and making sure that employees can still maintain productivity and perform at a high level. But there are some organizations that …
Estimated reading time: 3 minutes This is quite the awkward situation. Hi, I would like to find out how to report my brother for plagiarism. My resume has specifics about my work personality, key skills, and extracurricular activities that he has copied and pasted onto his own resume and claimed them to be his qualities. I have confronted him about this, and it has ended in him making nasty comments …
Estimated reading time: 4 minutes Regular readers of HR Bartender know that I try to answer work-related questions. I will admit that I can’t always answer them right away, but I do work to answer them. To those of you who have sent me questions, thanks so much for being patient! The reason I’m bringing this up is because the other day I was reading someone’s response to a question …
Estimated reading time: 3 minutes I saw a statement being shared around social media recently that said, “Retention isn’t on employees, it’s on the employer.” I totally understand why it was a popular statement to share. Organizations should care about employee retention and put strategies in place to retain employees. But this doesn’t mean that employees don’t have any responsibility in retention. Organizations are unable to put retention strategies in …