Tag: Las Vegas

Telecommuting—Top 10 Tips for Success

Would (or does) telecommuting work for you? Yahoo® and Best Buy® curbed it; meanwhile, Cisco® reported it improved retention and saved $277 million. In today’s Advisor, attorneys Deanna Brinkerhoff and Cathleen Yonahara offer ten practical tips for your telecommuting program.

How Can You Fix Engagement?

In yesterday’s Advisor, Nicole Price suggested that engagement must be paired with personal accountability; today, some of her tips for effectively driving engagement forward.

Better Tech Equals Better Mentorship

SPECIAL from HR Tech Las Vegas In yesterday’s Advisor, we learned about advancements in healthcare benefit management that were presented at HR Tech Las Vegas; today, innovations in connecting new recruits with seasoned mentors in your organization.

Are You Training Employees in the Season’s Spirit of Service?

  Focus on your culture, and the profits will follow, says Zappos’ CEO and author of Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose, Tony Hsieh. And the culture at Zappos is all about customer service. The company, known primarily for its Internet shoe business, does very little advertising, Hsieh says; instead, it counts […]

Feels good AND Positive Business Results

In yesterday’s Advisor, River Software’s Randy Emelo and HP’s Becky Simeon, PhD, talked about the big changes in corporate learning and, particularly, the move toward social learning. Today, the benefits of social learning systems.

What Do Driverless Cars Have to Do with HR?

Special from HR Tech Las Vegas The second machine age is affecting everything—take as examples the abject terror of riding in a driverless car and the pleasure of cows being milked by a robot milker–including HR, says Andrew McAfee, Principal Research Scientist, Massachusetts institute of Technology.