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Stealing lunch, starting cliques, and gossiping isn’t just for high school students anymore. It’s happening in the workplace, too. Astonishingly, three out of four workers report childish behavior in the workplace, according to a survey released by CareerBuilder®.
“The Today Show” just reported on gender inequality in fashion for the workplace. Men have been coasting along for years wearing the same few suits, some shirts, and several ties that they select from every day, mixing up the pairing for variety, while females in the workplace are expected to wear the latest colors, hem […]
If, as one employee put it, a workplace “is already a real show” and a “cross between a sorority and a circus,” why not put it on television, especially if celebrities are involved? The E! cable channel has done just that.
What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you hear the word wrestling? Surely not an employment lawsuit, although avid readers will ultimately know that’s the outcome of this story!
Attendance and tardiness can be a costly issue, as we’ve previously mentioned, not only for an employer, but for an employee as well. In this recent incident, an employee was able to bill the government for 4 months of work he never did, and his boss never even noticed! Was this a case of poor […]
Did your teachers accept your excuses for being tardy when you were in school, or were you given a detention anyway? Well, a school board had to deal with someone who was late nearly one third of the time—but it was a teacher!
Being fired for being a hero isn’t rare in the history of HRSBT. So it shouldn’t come as a surprise to learn that the hero in this story was fired as well!
When potential job candidates are looking to work for a company, they’ll do almost anything to stand out from the crowd. Whether the résumé is visually stimulating, features a bold-faced lie, or has a few typos, hiring managers are tasked with thumbing through hundreds of résumés in order to find the perfect candidate. Statistically, a […]
As the summer comes to end, so does the threat of provocative clothing in the workplace. Or does it? A South Dakota teen recently learned the hard way about dress codes.
Some like it hot, while others like it cold. For most offices, this is a real workplace battle. But is it one that is also based on gender? A recent NPR article suggests office air conditioning standards are based on outdated research, created in an era when the majority of workers were male.