Human resources – TimBatchelder

Overcome the 6 most toxic employee behaviors

December 19, 2013December 27, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Digital Health, Information Visualization, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Regenerative Economy

How to Overcome The 6 Most Toxic Employee Behaviors
BY BAIRD BRIGHTMAN, fastcompany.com

Identify, prevent, and get rid of the most toxic of workplace behaviors forever.

The old adage that “People are hired for their talents and fired for their behavior” is true. People often fail at work by exhibiting patterns of behavior th…

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How Psychologically Healthy is Your Workplace? (psychologytoday.com)
How to Overcome The 6 Most Toxic Employee Behaviors (fastcompany.com)
How to Change Employee Behavior & Impact Culture-Not (symbolist.com)
The Real Costs of Keeping a Toxic Employee (inc.com)

The Happiness Machine

January 30, 2013February 12, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Digital Health, Knowledge Management

Google Campus (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Farhad Manjoo, slate.com

A few years ago, Google’s human resources department noticed a problem: A lot of women were leaving the company. Like the majority of Silicon Valley software firms, Google is staffed mostly by men, and executives have long made it a priority to…

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The Happiness Machine

The Google Happiness Machine (breatheoutandsmile.wordpress.com)
How Google became such a great place to work. (slate.com)
Google Tracks Its Own Employees As Closely As It Tracks You On The Internet (businessinsider.com)
How Google obsessively monitors its employees to make sure they’re the happiest in the world (bgr.com)
Google’s employee experiments keep the happiness machine rolling (theverge.com)
The Happiness Machine (slate.com)
Farhad Manjoo: Why “Don’t Be Evil” is evil, and why Google isn’t so bad (nextlevelofnews.com)
The Next Frontier for Peer Production: Open Machine Learning Services (continuations.com)
Marissa Mayer Using Google Charm to Improve Yahoo Culture | CareerBliss (careerbliss.com)

Measuring An Employee’s Worth? Consider Influence

October 1, 2012February 18, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science, Design UX, Knowledge Management, Regenerative Economy

Measuring An Employee’s Worth? Consider Influence
By E.B. Boyd, fastcompany.com

The performance review of the future will include services like Salesforce.com’s Chatter and its Influencers feature, which measures how much weight you carry among your peers.

Today, your performance review is based on things like sales numb…

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Salesforce.com Announces Timing of its Fiscal Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2013 Financial Results Conference Call (virtual-strategy.com)
Driving engagement and a social business: it’s child’s play with gamification (blogs.techworld.com)
Medtronic Selects Indicee Analytics via Salesforce.com’s AppExchange (virtual-strategy.com)
Cornerstone for Salesforce: Optimizing CRM Investment (nextgeninsights.com)
FeedMagnet Platform Boosts Participation at Cars.com Annual Sales Event, Integrates Salesforce Chatter (prweb.com)
Salesforce.com Executive to Participate in Upcoming Investor Meeting (sacbee.com)
The Internet of everything (information-age.com)
Vala Afshar: The 10 Must-Have Sales and Marketing Business Tools (huffingtonpost.com)
At CES 2013, Salesforce tracks show buzz in the cloud (zdnet.com)
World Economic Forum, Salesforce.com and Accenture Deliver Real-time Social Media Insights to Participants of World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting in Davos (prnewswire.com)

Netflix’s Unlimited Employee Vacation Policy; Why It Works

May 23, 2012August 23, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Digital Health, Information Visualization, Knowledge Management, Regenerative Economy

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Netflix’s Unlimited Employee Vacation Policy; Why It Works.

The Vacation Paradox: Why Some Companies Are Paying Workers To Go Away (loszachreport.wordpress.com)
To Recruit Techies, Companies Offer Unlimited Vacation (businessweek.com)
Flexible & Unlimited Vacation Policies? (thehrstrategiesblog.wordpress.com)
Know Your Apps: Netflix (samsung.com)
Netflix to raise subscription cost – will you stay our leave? (epicagear.com)
Netflix for iPad gets a sexy new interface (reviews.cnet.com)
Employers offer unlimited paid vacation (sfgate.com)
Latest work perk: unlimited vacations (lifeinc.today.msnbc.msn.com)

LaidOffCamp: networking for people between jobs

November 12, 2009November 12, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science, Information Visualization, Knowledge Management

A Funny Thing Happened The Day After I Got Lai... — A Funny Thing Happened The Day After I Got Laid Off on Vimeo (Photo credit: Gregula)

Tip to Reduce Stress From Job Loss (sheilacraan1.wordpress.com)
IBEC says 2012 may be last year of falling employment (newstalk.ie)
What to Know Before You Get Fired or Laid Off (huffingtonpost.com)
Top Tax Write-offs for the Self-Employed (turbotax.intuit.com)
When identity is tied to former employer, unemployed report higher well-being (esciencenews.com)
Create Jobs By Signing the Paid Intern Pledge (forbes.com)
3 Tools That Can Take the Headaches Out of Hiring and HR (news.terra.com)
Employment scam uncovered in Delta’s flood relief camps (vanguardngr.com)
You: Identifying With Former Employer Boosts Self-Esteem in Unemployed (psychcentral.com)

Whocalled.us: trace that caller

August 28, 2009November 12, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science, Design UX, Digital Health, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search

Voice over Internet Protocol, how it works — Voice over Internet Protocol, how it works (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Background Checks Do’s and Don’t’s (kellybusinessadvisors.com)
Background checks should be required for all gun purchases (bangordailynews.com)
Info Quest, Inc. Unclear about Background Checks? (backgroundchex.wordpress.com)
3 Little Known Reasons Employers Ask for a Background Check (kellybusinessadvisors.com)
Obama urges tighter background checks on gun buyers (news.yahoo.com)
WhitePages’ new Current Caller ID app is the future of smartphone calling (venturebeat.com)
Police advisory: internet and computer scam affecting Darien residents (darientimes.com)
Caller ID meets Facebook and Twitter in new WhitePages app (geekwire.com)
Expert Review: Samsung Knack Cell Phone (samsung.com)
Caller Id and the Fall (danielundem.com)

Salary Range: Salary rate pay scale by salary experts

November 12, 2008February 9, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Digital Health, Information Visualization

2011 MLS Salary Grid — 2011 MLS Salary Grid (Photo credit: Bernhardt Soccer)

Salary Range: Salary rate pay scale by salary experts. Salary level, salary comparison, salary info..

Katie Donovan Launches 360 Degree Salary Negotiation Coaching for Professional Women (prweb.com)
Degrees that Saw the Highest Pay Raises for 2012 Graduates (money.usnews.com)

PayScale – Salary Comparison, Salary Survey, Search Wages

August 22, 2008August 22, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Design UX, Digital Health, Information Visualization, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Regenerative Economy

PayScale — PayScale (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

PayScale – Salary Comparison, Salary Survey, Search Wages.

interactive, self building

Reminder: Complete the Salary Survey and Save 15% on the Report (slablogger.typepad.com)
GuySuCo estates grind to a halt over pay demands (kaieteurnewsonline.com)
The problem with IT Salary Surveys (zdnet.com)
Fresh grads expect higher salary, faster promotion: survey (todayonline.com)
Generation Y struggling to find jobs, settle for retail en masse (wjla.com)