Month: March 2019

The staffs at three Ohio Sonic Drive-ins walked off the job en masse thanks to a rumor that was spread by a disgruntled manager.  Workers were reportedly led to believe that their hourly wages were being cut to $4 an hour plus tips from the $8.55 an hour minimum...

CNN recently interviewed a young guy who started a junk removal business with a beat-up truck.  Entrepreneur Brian Scudamore now owns four brands with 250 franchises across the United States, Canada and Australia.  Recall 1-800-GOT-JUNK?  That’s him and his 5,000 employees, who will haul in $400 million this year. ...

Move over Millennials – you are no longer the singular topic of conversation in the workplace.  Gen Z is rapidly joining the workforce, with the oldest members of the generation being 23 years-old.  (Demographers typically use birth years between 1995 and 2005.)  By 2020, Gen Zers will comprise 36 percent...

In addition to rising populations, so too is the average life expectancy.  The official list can be found here, with Japan, Switzerland, Singapore, Australia and Spain rounding out the top five at an average of 83 years old.  While this is positive data, many employers underestimate the struggle that employees...

In my frustration about the fact that so few people return messages nowadays, as I was raised that it’s rude to ignore people, I turned to the internet to get some answers.  I landed on an article in Psychology Today, which pinpointed three key reasons why people ignore messages: