Please forget the company-branded swag and wellness-week photo op. Please. Employee well-being has nothing to do with hoodies with the company logo and lunch on Fridays. Rather, employee well-being is the lived experience of work: how work is designed, how
RecFest Lessons: Practical Ways to Modernize Hiring
While swinging through Nashville last week at RecFest, I scribbled a few notes as I went. What follows (below) are the bits that stuck once the music faded and my feet stopped hurting. Revolutionary? Busting the lid off TA via
Unpacking a Bad Day at Work
Did you ever get a mouthful of sand? Swimming in the ocean, face-planting on the beach, or sliding into home plate during a neighborhood baseball game as a kid? One second you’re fine; the next you’re crunching grit between your
Free Speech at Work: Understanding the First Amendment
“Free speech” gets invoked everywhere – from campus quads to corporate Slack channels. In U.S. law, though, it has a precise meaning: the First Amendment restrains government actors from abridging expression. That protection is foundational and robust. It is also
