Workforce Planning

During this pandemic, many “hidden gems” of talent can be found among employees in the retail and hospitality industries. In fact, it’s an amazing once-in-a-lifetime recruiting opportunity.

Apple’s workforce is 9x more productive than IBM’s, and wouldn’t your CEO be mad if your productivity lagged behind that much within your industry?

This election will likely have HR impacts on diversity, unionization, paid leave, healthcare coverage, D&I training, and recruiting. And because it is better to be prepared than surprised, you should begin thinking about these changes even today.

The highest impact decision on productivity and innovation over the next 2 years will be finding the optimal mix of on-site, remote work, and robotics.

The pandemic has been distracting employees for months. But soon worrying about kids at school and possible evictions or layoffs will dramatically cut productivity even further. Can you even imagine during the first weeks of physically sending their kids back to school? The number of times each day when every …

Corporate diversity has become a top business imperative. Like any accountable business leader with a seat at the table, an HR leader that hasn’t produced diversity results should “fall on their sword” and resign.

“When people are in turmoil, you take advantage of them,” said John Sullivan, a professor of management at San Francisco State University. “The data over the last three months is so powerful,” he said. “People are shocked. No one found a drop in productivity. Most found an increase. People have …

By Dr. John Sullivan and Michael Cox We are experiencing what I call “The grand WFH experiment.”  Initially, the Working From Home (WFH) critics were heavily favored. However, because of its powerful business case, WFH is now destined to become “the new corporate normal.” I have been writing about the …

Even after the initial negative impacts from voluntary buyouts fade. It’s important that executives and shareholders be aware of some continuing dollar costs that may take some time before they negatively impact your balance sheet.

If you are a shareholder in a major company, voluntary employee buyouts should alarm you. First, I find them to be the single most costly strategic blunder* of all HR actions. Second, their bottom-line result may actually become negative when you calculate the real costs of paying your best employees to “take the money and run.”