Big Data Knows You’re Going to Quit Your Job Before You Do
Are you happy on your job? Are you unsatisfied with your work? Perhaps, you’ve already begun spending quality time...
Author: Jim Stroud
Employee Surveillance: Big Brother in the Office
Tracking employee health and employee movements may improve overall efficiency and the bottom line of the enterprise but at...
3 Things Every Client Delivery Manager Should Know
I ran into a friend of mine – Jim Marinelli, client delivery manager. and our casual chat turned into...
Is it right to profit on prison labor?
When you think of prisoners working inside of a jail, what comes to mind? Prisoners cooking, mopping floors, folding...
8 Reasons Why We Should (and should not) Raise the Minimum Wage
McDonald’s has given up lobbying against a minimum wage increase. Is this a good thing or a bad thing?...
Would you work for a machine?
How do you feel about working with robots and the increasing automation of the workspace? If the thought of...
Whatever happened to employee privacy?
If you have a social media account or a cell phone or an internet connection, then you have no privacy....
The Future of Student Loan debt
There is a crisis of college student loan debt that is mind-blowing in its scope. Let me share some numbers with...
Discussing Trump in the Workplace
What happens when politics is discussed in the workplace? A recent survey says that American workers are stressed out by any...
How To Stop Tech Addiction
I read the other day that chronic social media use is as bad as drug addiction and I remember thinking, “Is...
Privacy is dead and dying more each day…
Amazon reported that 100 million Alexa devices have been sold as of this writing. That’s great for Amazon but for...
Santa Claus and the Free Gift of Universal Basic Income
The Christmas season is upon us which means, among other things, Santa Claus will be delivering toys and gifts...
What happens when designer babies enter the workforce?
A scientist named – He Jianku claims to have created the world’s first genetically edited babies. Shortly after the...
A Future Talk with Dr. Tracey Wilen
{QUICK NOTE: I’m thinking of doing a podcast where I interview interesting people about the future of work, life...
Microchipping Employees is a No-good, Horrible and Terrible Idea
A Wisconsin company made it possible for their workers to throw away their employee ID cards, forget all their...
How Emerging Technology is Disrupting the Training and Development Industry
Attention Human Resources department, instead of spending so much time and money developing an onboarding program and/or a series...