4 Options for Hiring People
OPTION 1: As a traditional employer, you put people to work for your company because you need them now. But then:
You’re responsible to them, one way or another, as the company…
The End of the World is Here
This is the infamous year. The world as we know it is over, it’s out, it’s falling into the abyss of obsolescence. Ordinary people are crashing the gates, almost exclusively over freedom…
ECM, FAS, and Small Business 2.0
What they do: Earth class mail receives all your mail for you and lets you see your envelopes online (or on your mobile), with the option to scan contents to PDF, shred…
What Floating Education says about Traditional Employment
Traditional education may be a dinosaur since the rise of Google. People point to enrollment stats to say it ain’t so, but this misses the fact that traditional universities have had to…
What Cloud Software Says for Hiring People
Cloud computing is a leaner approach, a more agile approach and a greener approach, than installing stuff to hard drives and servers, keeping it updated, secure, and running smoothly. [This post] observes…
Heinz and Boeing on the Employer Pushcar
Heinz is announcing layoffs, plant closings, and price increases in a weak economy with rising ingredient costs. One could argue that the cost of employing people is not really the drain they…
Ideas and Infrastructure – When They Roll Their Eyes, Roll Your Ideas
Most people think if you have a visionary idea and no business plan, corporate structure, financing, and talent pool, you’re an unrealistic dreamer destined to fail. Their focus is on respectability, not…
Fat Butt Equals Slim Paycheck?
Part of the desperation of the current employment market involves all manner of taking personal and professional stock. Going back to school (which strikes me like getting a home equity loan to…
3 Questions to Ask at Your Next HR Meeting
Three core questions underly the direction a company takes, at any given point, when it comes to staffing. But a lot of companies delay or avoid the questions when the market looks…
We Need to Give Our Children Different Dreams
I can’t help but notice how many young men and women kind of glaze over and mentally back away when I describe independence and freedom. I can see what it is. When…
The New Rules of Work – Free Agents are the Future
We did a story over at the Rules of Work blog (where I’m editor) on the latest change – which is acknowledging that the “Rules of Work” have changed”. It’s…
Retiring from a Job in order to Work
A recent retiree said today in an NPR interview, ‘When I was younger, life was pretty regimented – you went to school, you got a job, you lived, then you retired, but…