What will human resources look like a decade from now? As it did in 1998, Workforce Management has asked a group of HR executives and thought leaders to make their best predictions.
The results make great reading.
CBS reports job seekers are doing crazy things to get hired.
“Some of the ones that stand out to me is somebody got a billboard and put up there that they were looking for a job,” said Careerbuilder’s Michael Erwin. “Another person wore a shirt to an interview that said, ‘please hire me.’ My favorite was when someone sent breakfast to the office every day until he was hired.”
This week’s Phoenix Business Journal notes a quarter of small business owners fear they won’t make it through the recession.
Payroll Solutions’ outsourcing solutions can actually save you money by giving you more time to put into those duties that actually raise revenue.
Wally Behrenz is a former FBI agent, now a Las Vegas business consultant. He penned an article for this week’s Las Vegas Business Press about fraud in the workplace: it’s on the rise, but you can do something about it.
HR.About.com’s Susan Heathfield has created a way for HR professionals to share their stories of having to lay off employees, in hopes sharing will lift spirits.
In a client company, not only was an employee viewing pornographic material on his computer at work, he downloaded the movies for IT staff to remove after he was let go. On another occasion, an employee, who had an outside business, called Human Resources after being let go to ask for the business records and bookkeeping that were only saved on her desktop at work. (The employer was kind.)
On yet another, an HR staff person had to show up at her company on a Saturday to help an employee who was fired sort through forty boxes of intermingled personal and work possessions that were stored at the company. Finally, I’ve been asked by employees who were let go for cause to review their resumes and cover letters, to serve as an employment reference, and to suggest places they should look for jobs. These requests always leave me wondering…
The New York Times reported this weekend a growing trend amongst expense-stretched companies to suspend their contributions to employee 401(k) plans.
To many retirement policy specialists, the lost contributions are one more sign of America’s failure as a society to face up to the graying of the population and the profound economic forces it will unleash.
Traditional pensions are disappearing, and Washington has yet to ensure that Social Security will remain solvent as baby boomers retire and more workers are needed to support each retiree.
Here’s the article at NYTimes.com.
From the Wall Street Journal:
Employers, who as recently as October said they were barely modifying their salary budgets for 2009, have changed their tune in December, this time bringing some workers’ projected annual pay raises to a low not seen in three decades.
Overall, workers are now projected to receive average annual merit increases of 3% next year, according to a new survey from Lincolnshire, Ill.-based Hewitt Associates Inc. When polled in October, employers said they had already lowered their budgets to 3.6% from 3.8% in July.
Here’s the complete article…
The age-old debate about “Employee Of The Month” programs rages on…
Check out the latest thoughts from Susan Heathenfield at About.com…
“Inverted Wisdom” may not be that much of a new concept – remember, “Helter Skelter” from the Beatle’s White Album is closer to fifty years old than twenty five…
Vineet Nayar posts a regular column at Harvard Business Publishing called “Inverted Wisdom” – and in this installment, he argues that we’re parked on the greatest generation of leaders America has ever been parked on… as long as we tell them the truth.
Happy employees are the best recruiting force for American Business.
HR.BLR.com reports on the trend… and makes some small businesses jealous…
