In this episode of the Culture Chat , we have the pleasure of welcoming Kirsten Davidson , Head of Employer Brand at Glassdoor to talk all things transparency and employer branding MORE

Much has been said about company culture in the past few years, but do you actually know how much it is important to today’s top executives? As Forbes reports , a recent survey of more than 1,400 US CEOs revealed that an overwhelming majority of executives believe that company culture is essential for an organization to thrive. But how can you create an engaging culture ? Conclusion. MORE

Millennials, especially those who have just begun their first full-time job, may not be thinking about stashing savings away for their retirement. But it doesn’t have to be difficult. Is there anything an employer can do to encourage saving in an environment of low entry-level wages, and high college debt MORE

This comment section is open for any non-work-related discussion you’d like to have with other readers, by popular demand. This one is truly no work and no school. If you have a work question, you can email it to me or post it in the work-related open thread on Fridays.). You may also like: all my 2015 book recommendations update: my coworkers mercilessly tease me about my drunken holiday party behavior the best “ask the readers” posts in 2014 weekend free-for-all – October 22-23, 2016 was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. open threads MORE

[You may also enjoy my “Firing Line with Bill Kutik” episode on this.]. There’s been a lot of discussion across the enterprise IT and financial analyst community about the long term economic viability of the SaaS business model.  And the enterprise IT community continues to debate the merits of the various flavors of SaaS architectural and infrastructural models.  much more. MORE

Yesterday a massive DDOS attack on Dyn, a New Hampshire based DNS service that many of our favourite sites use, from Twitter to Spotify to Vox Media. The attack came through a botnet with nodes on the largely unsecured internet of things. You already know all of this, right? But it kept me busy for much of yesterday, and away from writing — so today you’re getting a late Friday Five. MORE