Posts Tagged ‘office culture’
This week’s most clicked
This post was written by SmartBrief’s Linsey Isaacs. How Time Inc. used “office culture” to cut their losses ; why some companies are reevaluating their tuition reimbursement programs; and how start-up company can compete with big-name corporations to hire the best interns. It’s all on this past week’s top 5 most-clicked links in SmartBrief on [...]
No place for parties?
SmartPulse — our weekly reader poll in Smartbrief on Workforce — tracks feedback from leading managers and HR practitioners. We run the poll question each Wednesday in our e-newsletter and feature analysis from Lance Haun, vice president of outreach for MeritBuilder, the main guy over at Rehaul.com and a member of the SmartBrief on Workforce [...]
A word from the fashion police
Guest blogger Joseph Grenny recently tackled the topic of the human aversion to tough talks. He provided six great tips for having those difficult conversations. I would like to advocate that human resources staffers and managers everywhere take those tips to heart and use them to talk to employees about the way they are dressing [...]
Today’s bonus tracks: Workplace friendships
Friendships at work can help sustain us even when times are hard, but they can also create tricky boundaries. “We’re human, we like to connect with others, the problem is when we forget there is a public sphere and a private sphere,” says Janie Fritz, associate professor of communication and rhetorical studies at Duquesne University. Maintaining [...]
Brooke blogs “The Office”: How is your coalition for reason?
With the wedding over, and Jim and Pam off honeymooning in Puerto Rico, the action on “The Office” has returned. Although they are only down two employees, the gang is lacking a significant percentage of its brain power, and that deficit causes problems when an Italian American insurance salesman comes knocking on Michael’s door. Andy [...]
This job is fun? For whom?
It doesn’t take a lifetime in the working world to figure out that a job that looks great on paper could easily be terrible for you in practice. There are seemingly endless reasons that a job could be a bad fit — culture clash, bad boss, crazy co-workers … I could go on and on. [...]
The quality that counts the most
SmartPulse — our weekly reader poll in Smartbrief on Workforce — tracks feedback from leading managers and HR practitioners. We run the poll question each Wednesday in our e-newsletter and feature analysis from SmartBrief on Workforce Senior Editor Mary Ellen Slayter on this blog. Last week’s poll question: What quality do you think is most [...]
6 tips for creating an open office that works
Laura Sherbin and Karen Sumberg made a compelling case for killing the cube farm in a guest post on Sylvia Ann Hewlett’s blog. They’re right, of course, that knocking down the cubicle walls can encourage more conversation and foster team cohesiveness — that is, unless everyone gets on each other’s nerves. It isn’t enough to [...]
