Has your company followed Facebook, Google, Yahoo, eBay and American Express in creating an open office plan? Many companies, especially tech companies and startups have removed cubical walls and replaced them with communal desks to boost creativity, communication and collaboration. Additionally, an open office plan can save a company on office space expenditures, cutting the amount of space needed per employee and saving on cubical purchases, as well as convey an image of efficiency and [...]

“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.” – JFK Last year, you may have heard about the University of Oklahoma’s (OU) former members of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity making incredibly bad choices. These former members were filmed chanting a racist tune while on their way to a party. The leader of OU, President David Boren, took a strong stance against their actions and shut down the fraternity. Acting swiftly and taking a strong stance [...]

Back in November, our own @ColleenCoco shared a blog post about the dangers of misclassifying employees. From independent contractors to temporary workers to exempt vs. nonexempt, employee classification can be a tricky web to weave. Employers are cautioned to evaluate the role of the employee and make sure that each is labeled correctly, because that classification plays out into different realms of employment law. Lyft, the ride-sharing company (similar to UBER), settled its lawsuit as [...]

“Integrity is doing the right thing even when no one is watching.” – C.S. Lewis   Doing the right thing. It’s something we teach our children in school, and a lesson we hope is learned by the time young adults enter the business world. But in the world of work, where do people draw the line between right and wrong? How do we build a culture in our own organizations of doing the right thing, [...]