I need a new laptop and I had my mind fully set on an ultrabook with Windows 8. I’ve always had a Windows laptop – after all, I used to be an MSCE. But I’ve changed my mind: I’m going to buy a MacBook Air instead. Why? Because I travel more and I want the…
Welcome to my first Carnival of HR. I am pleased to host this time with a special December theme: Let’s Celebrate your proudest achievement in HR. As HR people, there are a lot of things we take for granted when we do them, but that we would single out if one of our employees would…
Now that we are getting close to 2013, we are bombarded with the latest trends in HR and all the things we have to do to make HR even better than before. But if we always focus on the future, and the next improvement, we have no time to enjoy what we’ve accomplished so far….
It’s almost 2013, and the first trend papers have been published. 2012 was a busy year for HR, with many developments in the HRTech space. It all started early this year with SAP’s acquisition of Successfactors. Then Oracle bought Taleo and IBM Kenexa. So for the first time in many years HR was labeled as…
Yes, you read that right: I will never go back to school. But it’s probably not what you think it is: the reason I’m not going back to school is because I never left in the first place. Ever since I graduated, I’ve had to study to keep up in my line of business. In…
Melissa from HR reMix invited me to write a post for her blogiversary. She did not want the usual, but something different about the future of HR. Or in her own words: “The future of HR reMix is to continue to be a place where people can find a different voice in HR.” I was…
The rise of consumer technologies, such as tablets and smartphones, has not only changed the way people communicate and engage with their world, but how we interact with our workplace. Thanks to the digital revolution and resulting employee expectations, both the workforce landscape and HR are undergoing major shifts and anticipating new ones. A Technology…
Are you expecting a raise this year? NGA’s pay index shows you how optimistic you should be.
We are extremely bad at predicting the future. We try and we fail. We observe trends, try again and fail again. The future just never quite turns out the way we expect it to. Why are we so bad at predicting what the future holds? Because we look at it from our current perspective and…
Recently, some articles appeared warning us of imminent labor shortages. They look at the retirement of baby boomers and claim that due to the future, smaller labor force, the “war for talent” will intensify as soon as the economy turns around, so companies better use all their resources to bind employees. There is however one…
I have been reading Walter Isaacson’s biography on Steve Jobs and if there’s one thing that stands out in my mind, it’s Jobs’ everlasting quest for simplicity. He applied that to every stage of the design and every inch of his products – not to mention his personal life. You only have to watch toddlers…
