There was a time when weekly pay was all employees received for their service. In most industries, those days are long gone. Pension and health plans, benefits and other perks have been introduced to keep employees happy and engaged. Personal income has risen over many years, but due to the financial crisis, many companies are…
Reputation is important. Especially if you work in professional services, reputation is the difference between a steady stream of contracts and none at all. There are many tools on the web that claim to measure reputation and influence. Unfortunately, most of them do not disclose how they calculate your final score: they will mention sophisticated…
In many of my trend articles, you’ll find a mention about the move we are making to a service economy. In the service economy, access to talent is important and those talents are in the hands of the employees. There are workers of many kinds, but the group that is on the rise is the…
If you are on Twitter, I am sure you recognize the illustration: the Twitter whale signals that the system is not working as it should. Unless you are in the middle of a tweet-up, Twitter being out of service is unlikely to be more than annoying. But what about other cloud applications we have come…
Deloitte has published their latest Human Capital Trends study titled “Revolution/Evolution”. It’s a good 30 pages on 12 trends that are shifting the HR landscape and reads well. Deloitte mentions that two broad themes – innovation and global markets – are influencing human capital organizations around the world. Each theme is described in a few…
A few weeks ago somebody told me she decided to quit her job and start out on her own. We were talking about the opportunity and I asked her what role HR played in her decision. She answered: `They had some wonderful tools and policies available´. I was a bit surprised to find out that…
Many people own a safe. They use it to store valuable items, which they don’t use every day and want to protect, like passports, birth certificates, diplomas, the deed to a house, money or jewelry. I don’t have a safe at home. Call me naive, but I’ve never understood the concept of keeping your valuables…
Imagine, if you will, your company without an HR function. Now suppose you’re asked to set up HR: What would you do? Would you create something similar or radically different? Would you create it at all? The ‘new normal’ will vastly different We’ve arrived at a turning point in history where new technology is profoundly…
I’ve been trying out some tools to enhance my Twitter experience. I have been using Tweetdeck and Twitter for iPad for a while and like them for tweeting, but when you are looking for experts to follow on topics of interest, for me on “HR” and “future of work”, it´s not so easy to find…
This week’s edition of BusinessWeek contains an interesting cover story titled “The Cloud: Battle of the Tech Titans”. The author gives an overview of the tech companies that have embraced the cloud as the only way forward (Amazon, Google, Microsoft), and contrasts them with companies that view the cloud as part of the overall enterprise…
A few years ago I bought a new house. The previous owners did not spend much time gardening and the back yard was a mess. My first priority was to get the house together. When that was done, I decided to tackle the garden. I enjoy being outside and I wanted to create a garden…
As usual at the start of a new year, research companies and advisors publish articles with their thoughts on developments for the HR function and 2011 was no different. While I was reading, I decided to create a list to keep track of everything they think HR should engage in. It’s wonderful to read how many different…
