How did a diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) program manager defraud Facebook and Nike of more than $5 million? With the help of crooked relatives and friends, as it turns out. Former DEI program manager Barbara Furlow-Smiles was sentenced to…
Policy and culture
Jensen Huang, co-founder and CEO of Nvidia, is a certified genius and extreme workaholic in the same mold as Elon Musk. Huang was destined to succeed wildly in whatever career path he followed. Yet would Nvidia boast a $2.2 trillion…
Studies show employees miss a couple of days of work every year due to stress. Then there are the folks who come into work anyway but are too stressed to be as effective as they normally are. If a staffer…
Talk about a swift kick in the you-know-where! President Biden stopped at a Sheetz convenience store on a recent campaign stop. Biden ordered a cup of coffee and chatted up employees and customers. Later that very same day, Biden's Equal…
Looks like AI won't be taking the place of all those vacant jobs after all. CEOs at bigger companies -- some who laid off a lot of people over the last eight months -- are chomping at the bit to…
The metropolitan areas where employers and employees want to settle are in flux this decade. COVID-19 accelerated the flexible on-site work routine for millions of people. And as companies insisted their people come back into the office, a company's location…
What company wouldn't opt for an employee benefit that helps new families out and pays for itself in various ways? A recent report on companies that expanded child care assistance is an eye-opener for businesses that seek to attract and…
Companies say they're struggling to find talent. Maybe you're in the same boat. It can seem like top performers are choosing other firms, or that they just don't exist. Or it could be that employees with potential aren't getting a…
Paying six-figure salaries to relatives of the owners or top executives of a company is never a good look. For a publicly traded company, failing to report this kind of questionable compensation will attract the attention of the feds. Popular…
Year after year, surveys show about 70% of job applicants lie on their resumes or applications. People lie about their skills, employers, college degrees, you name it. The onus falls on hiring managers and HR to dig deeper during the…
With a new year comes new state laws with compliance challenges that could disrupt business as usual. In addition to the minimum wage hikes that we recently reported on, there are other rules in effect, or about to go into…
Generosity is alive and well in America. The following story is proof positive. Harvey and Maddy Rovinsky own Bernie Robbins Jewelers (BRJ), once a go-to shop in Center City Philadelphia. Maddy's father started the business in 1962 as a hardware…
