Leaders help their careers by promoting themselves Executives should promote themselves by recognizing unconscious bias, highlighting their value without bragging and seeking support from mentors and sponsors, writes Nadine Greiner, chief HR officer for the Institute on Aging. "As part of your self-promotion efforts, it's essential to underscore your potential," Greiner writes. Full Story: SHRM's Executive Network Blog (5/27)
Keep your passion in check Passion for your job should come out of curiosity about little things and not a consuming goal that leaves you exhausted. "When we overinvest passion in one area, we create an illusory 'fragmented self' that wants only one aspect of life to work well -- and we end up weakening our whole system," writes business coach Bianca Finkelstein. Full Story: Fast Company (tiered subscription model) (6/1)
What today's workers want from employers Companies must understand what motivates employees to recruit and retain the best talent. Today's employees want certain allowances from employers, including flexible work policies and evaluations based on the value employees deliver, rather than on the volume of output, research suggests. Full Story: Harvard Business Review (tiered subscription model) (5/31)
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The federal Equal Opportunity Employment Commission updated its guidance to state that it's legal for employers to offer incentives to workers to get vaccinated. The guidance states employers "must keep vaccination information confidential" and also clarifies that employers can legally require new recruits and those re-entering the workplace to be vaccinated, but must allow exemptions based on religion or disability. Full Story: CNN (5/29),The Hill (5/28)
Seeing as how the building they surveilled checked many of the same boxes as an indoor weed farm, the police raided the facility. But all those random visitors, the maze of ventilation ducts and the excessive energy use were really just signs that "farm" was actually a "mine" -- a bitcoin mine. In the end, the cops got their collar because the building was mining bitcoin with stolen electricity. Full Story: Gizmodo (5/28)
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