Productivity / Performance

‘Tis the season for online shopping on-the-clock

12/02/2015

Next to a credit card with a hefty limit, a workplace computer may be this year’s most essential holiday shopping tool. After a slight downturn in work-based online shopping in 2014, more employees say they’re spending working hours hunting for deals and buying gifts this year, according to CareerBuilder’s annual Cyber Monday survey.

Performance reviews lose their luster

11/26/2015

CEO of GE Jeff Immelt is considering axing annual performance reviews. Instead, it’s experimenting with more frequent performance discussions between managers and staff. The industrial giant is also launching an app for supervisors and employees to share feedback with each other.

How to accommodate Muslim employees in the workplace

11/25/2015

Minnesota is home to North America’s largest Somali immigrant community, most of whom are Muslims. For Minnesota employers, this means becoming familiar with Islamic practices and the ways employers often must accommodate them.

What (or who) keeps telework from working?

10/30/2015

Resistance from senior executives is the primary reason more employers don’t institute a regular telework plan, in which employees work remotely at least once a week.

‘I got stuck under my bed’ and more priceless absenteeism excuses

10/28/2015

CareerBuilder has learned that some employees take their excuses to the next level, from claims of poisoning at grandma’s hands to the urgent need to dumpster dive. Real-life bosses no doubt cringed when they heard that a subordinate missed work because he or she …

In praise of praise

10/25/2015

New leaders tend to get tripped up on praise because they worry that it will seem unprofessional or that people will get overconfident and complacent. It isn’t … and they won’t.

3 types of underperformers who taint your workplace

10/23/2015

Underperformers really come in only three varieties, and most of them can be repaired, but more easily, prevented from becoming one in the first place.

Sobering statistic: The hidden business cost of hangovers

10/22/2015

Binge drinking and the resulting hangovers cost U.S. employers $77 million in lost productivity at work, according to a study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The employee, not the job, is what makes telecommuting work

10/14/2015

What should the rules of telecommuting be—and who is it really working for?

Should you swap performance reviews for a feedback app?

10/09/2015

Some companies, including General Electric, have begun replacing traditional performance reviews with web- and mobile-based apps that let employees provide real-time, 360-degree feedback of one another.