Month: July 2024

Revitalize Your Team: Boost Workplace Inclusion to Tackle Burnout

In a recent report, Boston Consulting Group drew a parallel between boosting workplace inclusion and resolving employee burnout, and their reasoning is sound. Across the globe, job markets aren’t as stable as they should be, and employees have been left with varying degrees of burnout and dissociation from their work. […]

FTC’s Non-compete Ban Delayed by a Federal Judge in Texas

The FTC’s non-compete ban has been delayed by a judge in Texas this week. Earlier this year, the Federal Trade Commission decided to take serious action against businesses forcing employees to sign non-competes as it believed the decision would “lead to new business formation growing by 2.7 percent per year, […]

Hints of Microsoft’s New Layoff Plans Are Appearing Online

Microsoft’s new layoff plans have hit Xbox for the second time this year. Among the many tech businesses, Microsoft’s employee reduction plans have been quite apparent over the last few months, and despite their many large-scale product and tool releases, they have been just as proactive with releasing employees. In […]

Hints of Microsoft’s New Layoffs Plans Are Appearing Online

Microsoft’s new layoff plans have hit Xbox for the second time this year. Microsoft’s employee reduction plans have been quite apparent over the last few months and despite their many large-scale product and tool releases, they have been just as proactive with releasing employees as well. In January, Microsoft’s layoff […]

Yesterday, a court did block the FTC’s noncompete rule. But, here’s the thing…

the employer handbook

Since my homeowner’s insurance may not cover multitasking blog-related accidents around a lit Fourth-of-July grill, I’m not taking any chances. So, let’s address yesterday’s decision by a Texas federal judge to block the Federal Trade Commission‘s blunderbuss Noncompete Rule, which imposes a comprehensive ban on new noncompetes with all workers, […]