General advice holds that on a first date, you avoid politics, religion and whether you still live at home with your mom. The same can probably be said of the workplace, although in the current economy, the live-at-home choice will most likely be viewed as a fiscally responsible alternative (and she probably cooks better to [...]
Archive for February, 2012
27 Feb
Employee handbooks – just when you thought it was safe . . .
. . . to finalize what you have spent months reviewing, revising and beautifying, the DOL wants to make a teensy change and extend leave for military families. And to think, you were minutes away from sending it off to be leatherbound! To read more about the proposed FMLA changes, check out this article from our partners [...]
24 Feb
A little more t…
A little more than three months ago we introduced our first HR column – Hanna’s Recipe. Today, we are bringing you our second – Helpful Read – that will highlight books we think are worth your time. If you have any books you think we should share with everyone, shoot us an email at hru@accr.biz. And [...]
23 Feb
Brainstorming – collaboration feeds innovation?
Um, nope. At least if you believe Picasso (“Without great solitude, no serious work is possible.”), psychologists Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and Gregory Feist (how do you argue with people with names like that?), Roy Williams from the MondayMorningMemo (this newsletter continually bends my mind, in a good way), Susan Cain in the New York Times, or [...]
