Memorial Day – How do you say thank you to vets?
Friday, 05. 24. 2013 – Category: All Blog Posts, Recruiting
As we head into the first long weekend of the summer, I’m thinking about the disconnect between our collective anticipation of a vacation day and the reason we have that day off. Memorial Day – a day to plant the tomatoes, go to cookouts, spend a leisurely day with family and friends, shop the retail [...]
Bye Bye Lotus 1-2-3 – Thanks for the Memories
Friday, 05. 17. 2013 – Category: All Blog Posts, Meaning of Work, employee engagement
It was bittersweet to read this week that IBM has announced the end of support for Lotus 1-2-3. This may seem like a minor blip on the geek landscape, but for me this announcement was akin to Proust’s madelines. Released in January of 1983, Lotus 1-2-3 became the first killer app for personal computers, releasing [...]
Is the Working Families Flexibility Act of 2013 Good for Workers or Not?
Wednesday, 05. 15. 2013 – Category: Absence Management, All Blog Posts, Labor Cost Management, Labor Law Compliance, Podcast
This week I spoke with my Workforce Institute colleagues Sue Meisinger and Andy Brantley about the Working Families Flexibility Act currently making its way through Congress. If passed, this Act would enable private sector employers to offer comp time in lieu of overtime pay to their hourly workers. This has been the case for public [...]
Workforce Institute Board Member David Creelman Wins Award for Research on Boards and HR
Monday, 05. 13. 2013 – Category: All Blog Posts
Our board member David Creelman (center in photo) and his colleague Andrew Lambert have won the 2013 Walker award from HRPS, a Chicago-based organization whose mission is “To bring together HR leaders, academics and trusted advisors into a member-led community to actively learn and exchange knowledge so that members can achieve their potential, drive organization [...]
Join our Affordable Care Act Tweet Chat on Thursday 5/16 at Noon EST
Monday, 05. 13. 2013 – Category: All Blog Posts
Please join us this Thursday (5/16) at 12pm EST on Twitter using the hashtag #KronosChat. Kronos will be co-hosting the chat with HR Bartender and discussing the Affordable Care Act.
We’ll touch on data points for our recent survey: Kronos Survey Shows Many Part-Time Employees Confused About Affordable Care Act; Not Getting Much Help From Employers [...]
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