5 Things You Should Know This Week

Cara Lucas Cara Lucas

Rise and grind, FOT Nation! Get your Monday started right with these 5 must-reads: 1.Guerrilla Marketing: How Cubans Work Around a National Ban on Advertising: In Havana, advertisers worry about attracting ​too much​ attention. 2. If Lyft Drivers Were Employees They Would Be Owed $126 Million, Say Court Documents: Court documents show Lyft drivers have missed out on hundreds of millions in expense …

5 Things You Should Know This Week

Cara Lucas Cara Lucas, This Week in HR

Welcome back to another great week with your favorite blogging team. Get your morning started with these 5 must-reads: 1. Is McDonald’s Responsible for Its Franchise Workers?: A court case in New York City between McDonald’s and its workers could change the way employees negotiate their pay. 2. Can Millennials Undo What the Recession Did to Their Earnings?: To turn the tide of …

5 Things You Need To Know This Week

Cara Lucas Cara Lucas, This Week in HR

Happy Presidents Day, FOT Nation. Get your Monday started right with these must-read articles below: 1.Robots will steal your job: How AI could increase unemployment and inequality. 2. The Unfortunate Consequences of Reno’s Tech Boom: Partly in response to the presence of Tesla and Apple, the city is building lots of high-end apartments, but little in the way of affordable housing. 3. Your …

5 Things You Should Know This Week

Cara Lucas Cara Lucas, This Week in HR

Welcome back to another great week with your favorite blogging team! Check out these 5 must-reads to get your Monday started right: 1.Starbucks the Benevolent?: What would compel a massive company to start helping its employees pay rent and attend college? 2. Pinterest Produces Amazing Diversity Results … Using Proactive Targeted Referrals: By focusing on one type of diversity referral program, within six …

5 Things You Should Know This Week

Cara Lucas Cara Lucas, This Week in HR

Rise and grind, FOT Nation. It’s Monday and that means it’s time for you to dig into the news as you gear up for the week ahead. Check it. 1.Obama’s New Equal-Pay Rules: Companies with 100 employees or more will be required to disclose pay data broken down by race and gender to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. 2. Candidate Research …

5 Things You Should Know This Week

Cara Lucas The HR Profession, This Week in HR

Welcome back to another week with your favorite blogging team! Get your morning started with these 5 must-reads: 1.Corporations Want Love (and Free Marketing on Instagram): Companies once asked only their employees to feign heartfelt devotion to their products. Now their customers are expected to do so too. 2. Five Execs Leave Twitter: Five major executives abruptly left Twitter in a surprising …

5 Things You Should Know This Week

Cara Lucas The HR Profession, This Week in HR

Welcome back to another week with your favorite blogging team—get your morning started with these 5 must-reads!: 1.Why Are So Many Zappos Employees Leaving?: The online shoe retailer Zappos has always stood out for its unconventional human-resources philosophy. 2. The Silver Tsunami – Recruiting An Aging Labor Force: USA Today reports that a survey of American workers found that 82 percent of the respondents age …

5 Things You Should Know This Week

Cara Lucas Cara Lucas, The HR Profession, This Week in HR

Welcome back to another great week at FOT! Before you get your day started, check out these 5 must-reads: 1.Native Advertising — The Next Big Thing In Recruitment Advertising: You should test using native advertising in recruiting primarily because, in a world where most ads are never even viewed, they work. 2. Why Do Americans Work So Much?: The economist John Maynard Keynes …