Two former Twitter employees were recently exposed as spies for Saudi Arabia. The employees had access to personal information and account data for millions of Twitter users. Mike Chapple, former NSA
In a recent podcast, author Christine Porath speaks to incivility in the workplace, and its effect on work environment and morale. Porath emphasizes that (1) incivility is toxic to all (not just
Recent experiments with shortened workweeks (and fewer work hours per day) suggest that we are going through a work transformation. Author and professor Cal Newport suggests that “work today is where automobile manufacturing was
We all like to think of ourselves as good people; however, such thinking may be detrimental, according to psychologist Donny Chugh. Individuals assuming that they are good will resist challenges
McDonald’s recently fired its CEO, Stephen Easterbrook, following the discovery that Easterbrook and another McDonald’s employee had been engaged in a consensual sexual relationship. Even though the relationship was consensual,
U.S. Census data suggests that Wisconsin is losing working-age men and women and that the under-18 population is also decreasing. Such population changes could indicate a future worker shortage (particularly as increasing
A Comcast call center in Delaware improved its employees’ work environment and experience by adding live plants, a fish tank, quieter rooms, games, and more. This stands in stark contrast to the
In September, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed AB 5 into law which introduced strict new rules for employee classification. Under the new law, workers will be considered employees—and not independent
Chicago recently passed the Chicago Fair Workweek Ordinancewhich addresses employee concerns about irregular schedules, short notice of shift changes, and other unpredictable elements of their work. The ordinance requires employers to
The Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas) recently upheld a lower court’s decision, finding that a plaintiff’s termination one day after he was informed that he
