SiliconBeat

Telecommuting has been a workplace topic for at least a decade now, but we suspect that its adoption by a vastly larger number of employers and their employees is just a matter of time, given the steep spike in gas prices recently coupled with the increasingly dire information about climate change. We were intrigued by a release put out today by Challenger, Gray & Christmas, an executive outplacement firm known by us mostly for their periodic reports on lay offs in the U.S., that conducted a survey on employer responses to the soaring price of gasoline faced by their workers.

Telecommuting could soon rise to the level of (already be?) a national security issue: Read the rest of this entry »

Here’s a business decision we don’t often see: a local firm moving jobs, not AWAY, but TO the Bay Area. That’s what Omnicell announced Tuesday. Read the rest of this entry »

OK, aside from Dilbert, who among us would not be shocked to read that 86 percent of managers are not fully engaged in their managerial roles? That’s the conclusion of a five-year study of 2,600 managers at 149 Fortune 1000 and other large organizations across the United States and Eastern Canada conducted by ConceptReserve, which admittedly has a dog in this fight: it describes itself as a “research-based training firm that specializes in manager transitions and employee engagement.” Read the rest of this entry »

Hmmm. Is this advice that really needs to be given?

Evidently. ELT, a provider of online legal compliance training based in San Francisco has put out a self-described “funny but wise” tip sheet that offers “tough love” advice to the
graduating class of 2008, a group “celebrated for their technological savvy but woefully
unschooled in the customs of the corporation.”

In addition to the amusing but we’re assuming obvious suggestion that recent graduates just landing their first corporate jobs avoid the practice of rating their new bosses in the same way they have “professors, friends and random faces and bodies on social networking sites,” the tip sheet warns cubicle-dwelling worker newbies: Read the rest of this entry »