Monthly Archives: September 2010

Social Media questions move from what is it? to ownership

In a follow up to yesterday’s Fistful of Talent post, the site has posted reference to the changed question: Thursday, September 30, 2010 Who Owns Your Social Media Relationships? What To Do When Your ???Social??? Employees Move On. We’re at the point… Continue reading

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Excellent piece from Fistful of Talent regarding social media impact

You know how you thought, “I am going to regret this in the morning,” just before eating your 20th chicken wing covered in Super Atomic Hot Sauce? Remember how you wondered, “Will I ever date another girl?” just before getting your girlfriend’s na… Continue reading

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Small Business Jobs Act Provisions Affect Employment Benefits

The Jackson Lewis Law Firm releases memo regarding employment benefits Date: 9.27.2010 President Barack Obama has signed the Small Business Jobs Act of 2010 (H.R. 5297) into law on September 27, 2010. The bill contains the following benefits-relat… Continue reading

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New Manpower Research Reveals Nearly a Quarter of Companies Worldwide Concede Talent Strategy Does Not Support Business Strategy

Manpower???s Workforce Strategy Survey, released today, reveals that many organizations are not thinking strategically about the workforce they???ll need for long-term growth???most are thinking only about the here and now and are not positioned to buil… Continue reading

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Ernst & Young Leverages Social Media To Attract Generation Y, To Hire 6,000 Interns .

By Kenneth Guillame, Big4.com Staff Reporter September 26th, 2010 Kenneth Guillame, Big4.com Staff Reporter 26 September 2010 60% of Ernst & Young???s (E&Y) workforce will be Generation Y by the end of 2011. This means that the firm has to modify it… Continue reading

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Who am I? The role of human capital in a global workplace

As i do every morning I opened my email inbox to read the latest post from Trish MacFarlane (http://www.hrringleader.com) in which Trish talks about how the contestants on Dancing with the Stars represent the different types of charcter roles can … Continue reading

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Relocation Announcement

SunCoke will relocate its headquarters from Knoxville, Tn to Chicago early next year. Continue reading

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Relocation Announcement

The Money Gram has announced that it will reelocate its corporate headquarters from Minneapolis to Dallas and there will be new hires there as well. MoneyGram plans to have about 75 employees in place in Dallas by March 2011 and 150 by 2012. Continue reading

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Implications for the Workplace

We have witnessed several incidents over the past several weeks of violence taking place in our palces to work.This get followed by a father going ballistic on a school bus because the students riding the bus were bullying his 13 year old disabled… Continue reading

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Reflections on society, organizations and the global workplace

As I am writing this it is 9:00 PM and our Jewish clients and my family have just finished celebrating the High Holy Days and today we are asked to reflect on our lives. This brings me to the content of this post. We have also heard or read about … Continue reading

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