Making Your Company a Best Place to Work
I recently attended the Pittsburgh Business Times Best Places to Work in Western Pennsylvania event. If you haven’t been to Pittsburgh in some time, if at all, I highly urge you to go. The city and the...
View ArticleWhen it Comes to their own Benefits, Many Employees are Missing the Boat
As it’s open enrollment season for U.S. businesses, millions of employees from Seattle to Baton Rouge are making important decisions about health care and benefits that will affect them and their...
View ArticleThe New Must-Have Employee Benefit to Offer?
A say in the matter. That is, the chance for employees to have an active stake in the future success of the company for which they work. Sure, it’s a distant second to, say, giving your employees a...
View ArticleSurvey Finds More Companies Cutting Benefits in 2009
Looks like Starbucks’ dollar coffees are coming at the perfect time for the thousands of U.S. employees who are soon going to have to start paying for their morning caffeine fixes. Following in the...
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Why We’re Looking Up in A Down Economy
You’ve been busy making birthday gifts out of canned goods containers and constructing a stellar (ah, unused) napkin dress for your next work party, but despite your attempts to be scrappy and creative...
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7 Job Seeker Questions You Didn’t See Coming, Part II
I recently posted the first part of of “7 Job Seeker Questions You Didn’t See Coming.” These questions are really to get you thinking more creatively about the types of questions that may be thrown at...
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Better Employee Benefits Generate Perks for Business, Too
Creating a better benefits package isn’t just good for employees. It’s good for business, too. Growing Pains: it’s not just a classic TV series desperately in need of a reunion show. While growth is a...
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The Five Things Job Seekers Want Most: Are You Offering It?
Last month, I discussed a recent CareerBuilder survey of workers nationwide, which asked them which factors they consider most important when evaluating employers. Below are their answers, in order of...
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Workers’ Most-Wanted Perk: Is it Really About the Fancy Title?
Catered gourmet lunches. Nap pods. On-site massages. Bike repair for commuters — or “baby cash” for new parents. Self-created job titles. Half-day Fridays — or four-day workweeks. Paid month-long...
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Is a Vacation Really a Vacation Anymore? How Workers are Getting Away in 2014
As a now 10-year resident of Chicago, I’ve withstood my share of weather woes. Everyone says “summers in Chicago make the terrible winters worth it!” Today is one of those days I agree — it’s...
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