Retaining Hourly Workers – Part 1

Tuesday, 11. 27. 2007  –  Category: All Blog Posts, Employee Retention, Labor Market, Meaning of Work

At an upcoming meeting of the Workforce Institute Board of Advisors in Boston, we plan to spend a good deal of time investigating best practices in retaining hourly workers.  Although much is written about the retention of white collar knowledge workers, it’s harder to find actionable advice for how to achieve the right retention equilibrium point for [...]

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Are Books and Readers a Thing of the Past?

Wednesday, 11. 21. 2007  –  Category: All Blog Posts, Workforce Development

This week in the Boston Globe, there was an article about the decline in reading for pleasure – especially among people under 24, but true across the board.  Ironically, the cover story in Newsweek this week concerns the Amazon Kindle- a $399 electronic book reader that will allow users to download books from Amazon wirelessly.  [...]

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When Black Friday Comes…

Thursday, 11. 15. 2007  –  Category: All Blog Posts, Customer Satisfaction, Employee Retention

OK – I borrowed the title from a Steely Dan song from one of my favorite albums (link provided for those born after 1970).   The song refers to a few cataclysmic events.  For retailers, it refers to the day after Thanksgiving – when the holiday shopping begins in earnest, and retailers’ financial fates are in the hands [...]

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Nina Giovannelli Guest Blog: Veterans at Work – Helping on the Home Front

Friday, 11. 9. 2007  –  Category: All Blog Posts, Employee Retention

    
The Kronos Marketing Department recently packed and shipped 175 care packages to Company H in Baghdad where one of our family members is serving in the infantry.
As we honor the veterans of wars past and present this weekend, we offer you a new article entitled Supporting Our Troops and Our Employees that highlights organizations’ legal obligations [...]

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Not everything that happens in Vegas should stay in Vegas…

Wednesday, 11. 7. 2007  –  Category: All Blog Posts, Customer Satisfaction, Employee Retention

I’ve spent the last 5 days in Las Vegas attending KronosWorks. Kronos, our sponsor, had close to 2000 attendees at the conference – customers, press and analysts, and Kronos employees. Although I’m not typically a fan of Las Vegas, I had many “aha” moments this week that I’d like to share. Here [...]

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