It sounds like a dream, a company with a vacation or paid time off (PTO) policy that doesn’t restrict or enforce any rules around the number off days an employee can take off. That’s right, take 15, 20, 25+ days in a year – you decide. Believe it or not, there are a growing number […]
Lunch Break and a Results Oriented Workforce
There seems to be a trend in employees not taking their lunch break. According to Right Management’s recent poll, less than 50% of employees take a lunch break. What does this mean about today’s workforce? Are we working harder? Or, are there other drivers behind this? As I thought about the results of the poll, I […]
Part-Time Employment on the Rise
SHRM recently wrote a cover article, Part-Timers Make People Strategy Whole, discussing the value of part-time employees and the shift in both numbers of and profile of part-timers in the workplace. In the past companies shied away from part-timers feeling like they weren’t as committed or engaged to the job as their fulltime counterparts. Since the […]
