Can you imagine a workplace with no pointless meetings, no boss hovering over your shoulder, and no punishment for arriving at 9:05AM?  Two online friends of mine, Cali Ressler and Jody Thompson, have just released a new book based on their popular Results-Only Work Environment (ROWE) concept, which they pioneered with electronics giant ...

[ImageAttachment]   This week, the human resources field is abuzz with the news that napping at work can help prevent heart disease. The catalyst?  A study just published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, which is being covered in thousands of news outlets, including Reuters and the Washington Post, as we speak.  To reach ...

[ImageAttachment] A topic that’s been coming up a lot in my discussions with twenty and thirty-something employees is empowerment.  Today’s younger workers want to come into a job and have the autonomy to take hold of projects and run with them self-sufficiently.  However, their baby boomer managers, more often than not, hold them back ...

[ImageAttachment]   Over at CareerHub, Andrea Kay has a great post about people seeking career assistance who claim they have attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).  She names some workplace strategies for coping with the disorder – including executive assistants, coaching, personal organizers, software and timers – but ...

[ImageAttachment]   More than 75% employees are looking for new jobs, according to the 462 employees and 367 HR professionals surveyed in the 2006 U.S. Job Retention Poll released last week by the Society for Human Resource Management and The Wall Street Journal’s CareerJournal.com.  According to HR professionals, 12% of their ...

[ImageAttachment]   Hannah Clark over at Forbes has an interesting piece on end-of-year bonuses.  Apparently, the traditional holiday bonus is nearly extinct, a fact which comes as no surprise to me given that I have never received one.  Clark reports on a study by Hewitt Associates, which found that only 34% of employers will ...

The Society for Human Resource Management reports that CCH Inc., a provider of HR and employment law information and services, has released its 2006 Unscheduled Absence Survey.  The rate of unscheduled absences rose to 2.5 percent in 2006, the highest it has been since 1999.  Unscheduled absences cost some large employers an estimated ...

[ImageAttachment] By now, the news has sunk in that the Democrats have taken over Congress, and everyone’s talking about what will happen next in Iraq.  But what, if anything, does it mean for your earning potential?   In USA Today, Sue Kirchhoff and Kathy Chu speculate about how our world might change in light of the recent political ...

Apparently, employers who lurk around MySpace is yesterday’s news.  In USA Today this week, Stephanie Armour reports on employees who making videos of the workplace and posting them on well-trafficked Internet sites like YouTube.  Some companies consider this a PR crisis, while others view it as an opportunity.  The majority, ...

This the last post in a three-part glimpse into the future of our careers.  Enjoy! What we’ll be working to get:  As we move from a commodity production base to a service and knowledge economy, we’ll be compensated based on how effectively we help their customers improve their lives.  The question will be “What did I do to make ...