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Office culture has a direct link to how well people perform their jobs. The more comfortable people feel at work, the better their resulting output is. A poor organizational culture has the ability to dampen employee morale, sapping their efficiency and creating an underperforming work force. Read More
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Research reveals that an estimated four in 10 workers around the world are disengaged from their jobs. This is a big deal since staffers who are fully engaged at work are more motivated, more loyal and more willing to stay on target to help achieve the company’s goals. Read More
A debate was sparked when Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer banned the search portal giant’s employees from working at home. Mayer’s goal was to boost collaboration between employees. The company’s network logs and found its at-home employees weren’t working enough. Why? Read More
Intrapreneurs have been an important part of influential companies since the mid-1980s. Some of the world’s most successful tech companies, like Apple, appreciate the necessity of intrapreneurship. This back-to-the-garage work ethic is what large companies now want to foster. Read More
The US Bureau of Labor Statistics has projected that people born between 1981 and 2000 will soon outnumber Boomers in the workplace—as early as 2015. Boomers are retiring: 10,000 Boomers turn 65 every day. This has created great opportunities for Gen Y Millennials, who are gaining management jobs. Read More
Claiming to be so busy you can’t take vacations, or that you must work late and on weekends, does not prove you’re a hard worker. It could be perceived that you are an inefficient worker. Being the busiest does not mean you’re the best. Read More
Companies spend a lot of time and money focusing on how to market and sell their products when they should be focusing on a more important commodity: their employees. Unhappy employees cost $300 billion per year in the United States alone. Why are unhappiness and loss of productivity linked? Read More
Many employees feel as if their jobs are in jeopardy when their company changes CEOs. When Marissa Meyer joined Yahoo! as CEO, she decided that one of her top goals would be to increase employee satisfaction. She seems to be reaching her goal, if evidence from Glassdoor accounts for anything. Read More
The survey, which ran from January 14, 2013 to February 18, 2013, was available to registered Monster users who had used their account within the past three years. One thing of concern was the high rate of job dissatisfaction. Of those surveyed, 42 percent were not happy in their current position Read More
Despite what many employers think, employees don’t necessarily look for companies that offer catered lunches every day or dole out large bonuses at the end of the year. For employers, retaining top talent is much easier than you think. One thing to keep in mind: it’s not about all about the money. Read More
There is that age-old question of whether you should go with the candidate with the most education or the one with the most experience. Is a pricey college degree really necessary to obtain any job? Or can a candidate skip the student loan debt and gain valuable experience instead? Read More