Sears recently reported that its cash and equivalents have fallen to $276 million from $1.8 billion one year ago. Since 2007, Sears has closed half of its locations and eliminated 137,000 jobs. The open stores are severely understaffed, with some
As we welcome my favorite month, I’m reminded of my favorite song. “September” is a song by American R&B band Earth, Wind & Fire, written by Maurice White, Al McKay and Allee Willis. It was released as a single in
Welcome guest blogger Kevin Sheridan – an internationally-recognized keynote speaker and New York Times Best Selling Author. He spent 30 years as a high-level Human Capital Management consultant, helping some of the world’s largest corporations rebuild a culture that fosters productive
I read an article this week written by Francois Pienaar, a SharePoint evangelist and director of enterprise content management at Mint Management Technologies in Gauteng, South Africa.
Pienaar points out that, in general, employees don’t leverage social media platforms to talk about
I paid off my mortgage this week at the age of 50. Several people said I should blog about how I did it, in an effort to help others. My strategy was as follows:
Buy a house in a
As recently reported in Forbes, $162 billion was spent in 2012 in the United States on corporate training—in what Harvard Business School Professor Michael Beer calls the “the great training robbery.”
Beer says money pumped into leadership and management training
Verizon announced on Monday that it would buy Yahoo’s operating businesses for $4.83 billion. Acquisitions almost always benefit the shareholders, but what about the employees? Many times it means the closing and combining of offices, the elimination or sell-off of
A new study by The Conference Board of Canada reports that only 27 percent of employees in Canada are engaged and employee engagement scores have remained stagnant since 2010.
“Despite evidence of employee engagement’s impact on business outcomes, workplace engagement
Businessolver, a leader in cloud-based benefits administration technology, recently identified a gap that exists between CEOs and employees in how best to inspire workforces, and keep people engaged, productive and proud. The study found that 60 percent of CEOs view
TheLocal.com, an English-language news network in Europe, recently reported that a driver and gardener employed through Spain’s local General Confederation of Labor union had been collecting pay without going to work for 15 years.
The town’s human resources department opened