Jill Christensen, Author at Jill Christensen International

18 Oct

Hitting Back at a Whistleblower? You Suck, Zuck.

By Jill Christensen

A former Facebook employee testified to U.S. politicians that the company’s sites and apps harm children’s mental health and stoke division in society. (Which I personally believe is true about many social media sites.) Frances Haugen, a former product manager

11 Oct

Warren Buffet Says: “Hire for This Trait”

By Jill Christensen

Warren Buffett is an American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist. Chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, Buffett is considered one of the most successful investors in the world and has a net worth of over $100 billion USD, making him

04 Oct

Stop Throwing Money at Workers – Do This Instead

By Jill Christensen

Organizations around the globe are having a hard time attracting workers and struggling to keep them – sometimes beyond day one. Increasingly, new hires are accepting offers and then ghosting employers by not showing up. And the ones that do

27 Sep

WorkProud Unveils a Powerful Driver of Employee Performance

By Jill Christensen

Groundbreaking research conducted by WorkProud, an organization with a comprehensive approach to building company cultures that inspire people, just revealed an unexplored – yet critical – driver of employee performance: Pride. When employees take pride in their work or feel

20 Sep

Vaccine Mandate Spawns Worker Resignations

By Jill Christensen

U.S. President Joe Biden recently announced a new rule from the Department of Labor that will require all companies with 100 or more employees to ensure each worker is fully vaccinated or can show a negative Covid-19 test at least once a week.
Businesses will have to

13 Sep

Do This to Combat Employee Burnout

By Jill Christensen

Nike is waving the white flag by giving its employees a week off to recharge.
The pandemic has sparked burnout among many global employees with more people working remotely and working longer hours. A Robert Half survey reports that 70

06 Sep

In the Future, Physical Work Will be a Choice

By Jill Christensen

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has announced that the electric carmaker is now branching out and working on a humanoid ‘Tesla Bot.’
“It’s basically going to do work that is boring, repetitive, and dangerous,” says Musk, adding that, “it will have a profound

30 Aug

Google to Slash Remote Worker Pay

By Jill Christensen

Google has created a calculator to potentially slash – by up to 25 percent – the pay for employees who choose to work remotely forever. As an example, a Google employee who previously commuted the hour from Stamford, Conn., to Manhattan

23 Aug

Could You Function as a Digital Nomad?

By Jill Christensen

The term Digital Nomad refers to people who work independent of their location, mostly online and often while travelling. These people have roles where their responsibilities do not require a fixed location or office space, and they can carry out

17 Aug

Would You Hire a Criminal to Fill an Open Job?

By Jill Christensen

The United States is the global leader in incarceration. Today, more than 30 percent of the U.S. working-age population has a criminal record.
The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) and the Charles Koch Institute (CKI) conducted a study, showing