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The Best Christmas Bonus A Company Can Give

Posted on November 30, 2014 by VoiceGlance
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Now that Thanksgiving has passed, it is time for businesses to figure out what to give their employees for Christmas. There is the traditional Christmas bonus, a custom that (perhaps rightfully) is going by the wayside. There is the Christmas party, which could be fun, but can also lead to uncomfortable situations and often becomes a JATTP (just another thing to plan). Both of those options have major downsides, which I’ll get into. Instead, there is a better solution out there, which avoids the major pitfalls of the two aforementioned ones: an unexpected day off. No employee, in any job, wouldn’t …Read more »

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What HR Teams Need To Learn From United Technology’s Big Hire

Posted on November 25, 2014 by VoiceGlance
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United Technologies shocked the business world Monday when it announced its CEO of the past six years, Louis Chenevert, was abruptly retiring and would immediately be replaced by their longtime CFO, Gregory Hayes. What’s interesting about the move is not necessarily that a longtime CEO abruptly left a company that generated $62.6 billion in revenue in 2013 or the rumors that go along with that. Or even the person who replaced him, Hayes, who has served as the company’s CFO since 2008. What’s interesting about it, at least from an HR perspective, is how commonplace the hire was. Hayes, a …Read more »

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Is Uber’s Audacious Recruiting Tactic Smart Business?

Posted on November 24, 2014 by VoiceGlance
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Earlier this year, Lyft drivers across the nation were experiencing a familiar phenomenon: they would pick up an Uber recruiter acting as a passenger, who would then spend the entire trip convincing the Lyft driver to take a job driving at Uber. Specifically, the drivers were offered more money per hour and up to a $1,000 bonus to join the rival driving service, according to various news reports.  The move was just part of a master plan by Uber entitled Operation SLOG designed to crush their biggest competitor. It is hard to argue that the plan is ethical, as Uber …Read more »

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Want To Be More Creative? Don’t Sleep

Posted on November 20, 2014 by VoiceGlance
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Wednesday, famed sportswriter Bill Simmons released a podcast where he interviewed Lorne Michaels, the man who created and still runs Saturday Night Live. In the interview, Michaels said something particularly interesting about the creative process. Simmons asked him about the grueling nature of SNL, where Michaels and his staff have been putting on a live hour of television each week for the past 40 years. Specifically, Simmons asked if that sort of schedule was too difficult, if there would be a benefit to cutting back. Michaels’ answer: no. “There’s a mantra that I have, which is fatigue is your friend,” …Read more »

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Is This Company The Next Chipotle?

Posted on November 19, 2014 by VoiceGlance
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My co-worker, the legendary Bill Palifka, came up to me today and had some advice for what I should write about next: Zoe’s Kitchen, a Texas-based “fast-casual” restaurant chain that serves kabobs, pitas and other Mediterranean food (full menu here). “I’d invest in that company,” Bill said, who raved about the food and how he felt like he was getting good food, served quickly, as opposed to the traditional fast food fare. He said he wouldn’t feel guilty taking his son to dinner there, which he said he would if he took him to McDonald’s. Investors agree. Zoe’s went public earlier this …Read more »

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Why Smart Businesses Love Hard Times

Posted on November 18, 2014 by VoiceGlance
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As you have probably noticed while filling up, gas prices are down. In fact, The Wall Street Journal reports that crude oil prices have hit a four-year low last week at $81.76 a barrel, thanks to growing supply. While that’s good news for you and me, you would think that would hurt a company like Halliburton, a $47 billion provider of oilfield services and equipment. Higher oil supply means lower margins for oil companies like Halliburton, and many would guess that the company would be conservative right now, not aggressive. But, in fact, the opposite is true. On Monday, Halliburton, …Read more »

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Want A Raise? Take A Vacation

Posted on November 13, 2014 by VoiceGlance
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In 2013, American workers permanently lost 169 million days of vacation time they didn’t use, the most in four decades, according to ustravel.org. That’s time that cannot be rolled over, paid out or used for any benefit whatsoever, just lost forever. That totals $52.4 billion workers just gave away. Essentially, rather than take the time they were due off, millions of American workers said to their bosses, “Hey, no problem, we’ll work for free.” Sounds like a great deal for businesses, right? All those extra man hours for free? Well, when you really analyze it, it isn’t. Instead, businesses would …Read more »

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Why I Won’t Shop On Thanksgiving

Posted on November 13, 2014 by VoiceGlance
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This will be the first year in at least the past five that I won’t have to work on Thanksgiving. Before, I worked as a journalist, and news breaks every day, including holidays (in fact, particularly on the holidays, as alcohol and families don’t always make a good fit). My girlfriend is working this Thanksgiving at her job as a CNA. Her mother, a nurse, is probably working as well. So are her two brothers; one a security guard, another a police officer. A lot of waiters and cooks will work on Thanksgiving. So will most movie theater employees. And …Read more »

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The Impossible Proven: Lose Weight Just By Thinking Differently

Posted on November 12, 2014 by VoiceGlance
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Today is a pretty amazing day in the world. The European version of NASA landed a probe on a comet. No big deal, really, except that the comet is roughly the size of a dishwasher, it’s 300 million miles from Earth and was traveling at roughly 25,000 miles per hour. Simple, right? Not that we should be surprised. The human mind is unquestionably the most powerful force on planet Earth, as we are capable of both the unbelievably extraordinary and the astonishingly awful. We’ve built medicines that have saved millions of lives, systems that connect the entire world and bombs that …Read more »

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An Emmy Doesn’t Qualify You for a Job at the Container Store

Posted on November 11, 2014 by VoiceGlance
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A post on café.com by Deborah Copaken, an Emmy-winning, best-selling author, has gone viral after she was not hired at The Container Store. The premise was pretty simple: Copaken won an Emmy, she’s a best-selling author; surely, she’s good enough to get a retail job. In the post, Copaken wrote about several other troubles she went through recently; most notably, getting divorced, being diagnosed with breast cancer and losing her health insurance. Those are some terrible ills and I sincerely hope she wins her battle with cancer. But not getting a job at The Container Store does not belong on …Read more »

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