Once upon a time, a company just like yours hired an amazingly talented employee. Everyone who met her knew she was going to be an asset. Over the next few months, her co-workers were buoyed by her warmth,energy and innovative ideas. Then, one day, they came into the office and saw her desk was cleared. All their boss said was, “She left.” The co-workers gathered in the lunchroom that day to discuss it, but there was no mystery: everyone knew why she’d left.
There’s a new type of candidate circling the hiring pool: the boomerang employee.
Small businesses love their current group of workers, but struggle to find new candidates of the same quality and work ethic.
It’s sometimes difficult for employees to communicate in a large company. But Microsoft Canada thinks it has found a solution using enterprise social media.
I read last month that Netflix is once again pushing the envelope by offering U.S. workers unlimited paid maternity or paternity leave during the first year after a child’s birth or adoption.
Canadians can expect to see average base salary increases of 2.4% in 2016, a Hay Group survey finds.
Few employers have backup plans should star performers leave their company.
Demographics around the world are changing, and this has profound implications for the Canadian labour force, said Dr. Linda Duxbury, professor, Sprott School of Business at Carleton University and keynote speaker at the ISCEBS Symposium in Vancouver.
Do you suspect someone at work is trying to sink your career? You're not alone.
I recently watched U.K.-based CNN anchor Hala Gorani—born in the U.S. to Syrian parents and raised in Algeria and France—give a graduation speech at George Mason University. Part of it was about how her otherness has helped her produce award-winning Middle East coverage.