You just sent someone an important email, urgently asking for a quick response. Two days pass. You call. You learn the person is off for several days — and you just lost two days trying to get an answer. But you know it doesn’t have to be that way.
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Technology — specifically email — is a supervisor’s best friend for saving time and improving efficiency, right? Not necessarily so.
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Google’s latest wrinkle on mapping is an application that allows a business to track workers at all times — on or off the premises. How do they do that?
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The tug-of-war over what companies’ social media policies should and shouldn’t do has grown more intense now that the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) shared its belief that many of the proposed policies violate the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA).
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We’re experiencing a steady barrage of Facebook news and advice, from a range of sources. While there’s no clear consensus on what employers can and can’t do, there are clearer indicators to help guide HR pros making those decisions.
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It can be a source of embarrassment for any HR professional: You hired someone who included false information on his or her resume, only to have it uncovered later.
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It’s probably no surprise to you that 30% to 40% of employee Internet activity is spent shopping, visiting Facebook — it’s all non-work-related. But the price tag for playing around on the Internet is staggering: an estimated $63 billion a year, according to trackers.
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Workers who complain of repetitiveness say they feel like robots because they do the same thing all day, day after day. But HR managers might want to take a moment to set them straight: They should count their lucky stars that robots haven’t taken over all of those jobs.
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By now, most of us have encountered (or committed) some of the most common flubs in writing and sending email — so you might consider this next-step information to be email advice 2.0, as the techies would say.
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The employees of two companies have about equal access to social-media websites. One company gets flooded with viruses, and the other doesn’t. Why the difference between the two?
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