I had a great time talking to Bryan Wempen at DriveThru HR today about social media – how we use it at Kronos, and what we’ve learned in the last 5 years that may be useful to newer adopters.  You can listen to a replay of the broadcast here.
Bryan and I focused largely on the [...]

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Today’s guest blog post is by Peggy Walton, Senior Director of Workforce Readiness at Corporate Voices for Working Families.  Corporate Voices advocates for family-friendly policies for low income workers.  Kronos is a Corporate Voices partner organization, as are a number of our clients.

At a time when national leaders are looking to America’s 1,200 community colleges [...]

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Take Your Child to Work Day – 2012

Thursday, 04. 26. 2012  –  Category: All Blog Posts, Work Life Balance

I took my mother (pictured here) to work with me once in 1992 – in Hong Kong.  She of the double major in Chemistry and German stayed home with my siblings and me, a product of her generation.  She struggled mightily with my decision to go back to work after my daughter [...]

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The title of this post is a quote from my recent conversation with Steve Miggo, SVP of Operations and Human Resources at Safelite AutoGlass.  I heard Safelite CEO Tom Feeney speak at the Net Promoter Conference in San Francisco, and was very impressed with the investment he’s made in the development of their frontline workforce, [...]

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Investor Attention to Human Capital: a New Standard

Thursday, 04. 12. 2012  –  Category: All Blog Posts

The following guest blog post is from our board member, David Creelman.  He is a member of the SHRM Metrics and Measures Taskforce and introduces their draft recommendation for standard HCM metrics below.

An ANSI standard on what human capital information to report to investors has been released for public consultation by the Metrics and Measures [...]

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