What is the secret to having happy employees? According to this business owner, it’s two-fold: treat them well, and fire the unhappy ones. “As a manager you cannot make everyone happy. You can try, you can listen, you can solve some problems, you can try some more. But there comes a point when you are [...]
I just stumbled across an interesting article called “Building a Virtual Law Firm” by Joseph Kashi, an attorney in Alaska. His article was written six years ago, but it highlights some trends that have only gained speed since then.
Kashi first points out that there is nothing new about “virtual” law relationships; most attorneys regularly associate with, [...]
Here is a very interesting article by Drake Bennett at the Boston Globe, that has lots of ramifications for lawyers, marketers and others, on “cognitive fluency”: a measure of how easy it is to think about something. New research confirms that people prefer things that are easy to think about to those that are hard. For example:
When presenting [...]
According to a new survey by health insurance company HealthPartners, health care costs are the biggest obstacle to business expansion for Minnesota businesses.
Almost two-thirds of companies said health costs jumped 10 percent or more in the past two years, with a quarter reporting costs increasing by more than 20 percent
Many employers blame employee lifestyles for [...]
Here is an interesting article from Law360 about how lawyers are using Facebook in a variety of different cases. Nothing earth-shatteringly new, but a good reminder for all involved about the implications of social media. In business litigation like non-compete cases, Linkedin may be an even better source of evidence.
This week’s New York Times Magazine contains its annual Year in Ideas, which always makes for fascinating reading.
Two of the articles touched on employment law topics. The first, called “The Myth of the Deficient Older Worker”, describes a study by three economists who pitted “seniors” (those over 50) against “juniors” (those under 30) in three decision-making [...]
Two interesting stories on privacy issues this morning.
First, Acorn is having even more problems because a republican activist did a little dumpster diving behind its offices in San Diego and came out with a bunch of documents containing social security and driver’s license numbers of its members and job applicants. Ouch!
Second, Sen. Patrick Leahy is [...]
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced yesterday that it is expanding a program for auditing companies’ hiring practices, and that it notified 1,000 companies this week that they would have to undergo such a review.
It appears that the audits will primarily affect private companies with some connection to public safety and national security, such as [...]
The Workplace Prof Blog has picked up on a new report from The Center for Economic and Policy Research about demographic changes in the labor movement in the last 25 years. According to the report:
Women now make up over 45 percent of unionized workers, up from just 35 percent in 1983.
Latinos are the fastest growing [...]
