Performance reviews play an important role in an employee’s work life. They decide if an employee had worked well enough to get a promotion, a raise etc. Most people are conscientious about how they handle performance reviews. After […]. Engagedly MORE

According to the United States Department of Labor's Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA), workplace injuries cost American businesses a hefty price. Employers pay out nearly $1 billion every week for direct workers' compensation costs. That does not include the additional costs incurred from medical expenses or legal services. Safety Safegagement MORE

Electronic content management typically connotes the ability to store data, and while that is indeed one if its primary functions, its capabilities are far greater than that alone. The HR Communications Challenge. Improving communication is especially critical – yet challenging – when it comes to HR-related materials. The ECM (Electric Content Management) Solution. appeared first on HRsoft. MORE

For this 15th anniversary of jihadist Islam’s declaration of war on the United States, I wanted to express my anger at what this war has cost all of us in the loss of privacy and freedom as well as in human lives and treasure.  It’s a war whose enemy combatants wear no recognizable uniforms, dwell in the shadows, and do not recognize the Geneva Conventions.  Success not just in war but in living.  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.). Book recommendation of the week:  How to Party with an Infant , by Kaui Hart Hemmings. Food, gossip, snark — a delight. MORE

More and more workplaces are offering some form of flexibility in terms of where an employee works. Some organizations have even developed a 100% “virtual” workforce—having no central offices where employees gather and instead allowing all employees to work from home or wherever they happen to be. Thankfully, there are a lot of ways that this can be effectively managed. This fosters camaraderie. MORE