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Small, but fierce: How tiny firms can pack a big punch
If you compare the American economy to an automobile, then 2009 was the year it careened off the road. We’ve since towed it out of the ditch but, make no mistake, we’ve still got engine trouble. And...
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The HR software battle heats up: Namely raises $12 million
Namely, a New York-based maker of human resources software, has raised a $12 million Series B round of funding. The company is part of a rising class of startups seeking to disrupt the way companies...
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Your next CEO is probably a Gen Xer
It isn't easy being a member of Generation X. At just 20% of the workforce, employees aged 32 to 49 are overshadowed by Boomers, who are usually their bosses (at least for the moment), and outnumbered...
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4 ways to convince Millennial workers to stick around
Dear Annie: I'm in charge of a product development team at a Fortune 500 company, and right now the division head and I are setting a couple of big goals for 2015, especially regarding products we want...
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To keep your best tech workers, try doing ‘stay interviews’
If you're worrying about how to hold on to your key tech talent, consider what recruiting site Poachable found last month in a survey of 5,000 new members--all of them "passive" job seekers, meaning...
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This Airbnb job listing has an unusual title, but good intentions
Home rental service Airbnb is looking for an important new team member with an unusual title: “Head of Diversity and Belonging.” On the surface, the job listing looks pretty standard as far as this...
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Why you really should go out for lunch today
What are you doing for lunch? If you're gulping down a quick meal alone at your desk, as well over half of white-collar workers regularly do, you might want to make other plans--especially if you're...
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This company will pay $1,200 a year toward your student loans
Anyone not living in a cave has seen the grim statistics on U.S. student debt. About 40 million Americans, or almost three-quarters (71%) of recent college grads, owe a staggering total of $1.3...
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4 reasons your tech workers are quitting
If you're losing more skilled IT staffers than you can easily replace, you're in good company. Even big-name tech employers struggle with this. Google's techies stay barely more than a year on average,...
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How pay transparency can keep people from quitting
Even though Millennials expect it and tech companies hope it will minimize wage gaps, the idea of letting everyone in a company know everyone else’s salary is enough to make most senior managers...
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Treating workers like family: A mixed blessing
Many modern businesses own little inventory or real estate. They're composed mostly of people, who use their skills to accomplish something bigger together than they could on their own. That makes...
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How You Benefit From the Talent Wars (Even Without Changing Jobs)
Maybe your childhood memories in this holiday season include at least one year when a sibling got a gift--a pool table, say, or an Xbox--that turned out to be a blast for you too. A grownup version of...
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What Job Seekers Really Want Now
If you've been thinking about changing jobs, 2016 may finally be your year. Assuming the recession that some economists are expecting doesn't materialize, the outlook for job hunters is likely to get...
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Why Voters Trust Some Candidates and Not Others
Is there anything business leaders can learn from how politicians project their personalities on the campaign trail? Suzanne Bates thinks so. "There's always a vast group of voters whose visceral...
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Tech Salaries Soar Even Higher, Catching Up with Demand
For the past few years, salaries and bonuses in information technology seemed to defy the basic laws of economics. Demand skyrocketed, but salaries and bonuses barely budged. In early 2015, a Dice.com...
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Employees Would Rather Hear Bad News Than No News
Let's say you're a leader in an enterprise that has just had a rough quarter (or two). A competitor is battering away at your market share, and higher costs have hammered profits. In a public company,...
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Think Your Employees Are Paid Fairly? Most of Them Disagree
Every year, compensation firm PayScale does a massive survey on companies’ pay practices. But it's not often that the researchers uncover as many huge gaps in perception as they did in this year’s...
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As Wages Keep Rising, So Does Employee Turnover
Want proof that the job market just keeps getting better (for employees and job seekers, anyway)? Full-time employees ages 25 to 34 got an average 10% pay hike if they changed jobs in the first quarter...
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Pet Insurance Is Now the Hottest Employee Benefit
If you hear more barking, snuffling, and whining than usual around the office this Friday, relax -- it's just Take Your Dog to Work Day. This year is the 17th annual such occasion in the U.S. (it...
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The Trend That Explains Why Most Employees Grade Their Bosses A or B
Ever wonder what your direct reports really think about how well you do your job? If any of them were among the 3,031 full-time employees recently surveyed by Harris Poll for CareerBuilder, you're...
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