Dear Moneyist, I will be inheriting $300,000 soon. I am debating how to invest it. I am currently working part-time, so though I would love to buy a rental property — my house is paid off — that isn’t in the immediate future. I do plan on working full-time in the near future, and will set aside…

The Practical Employer The Wile E. Coyote Method of Noncompete Litigation Sometimes you win an injunction. Sometimes the court drops a big boulder on your head. January 25, 2018 , Wile E. Coyote. Forever chasing the Roadrunner. Always ending up falling off a cliff or crushed under a giant boulder.…

Trending The Private Exchange’s Spread in the Workplace Benefits exchange expert Alan Cohen seeks to demystify the private exchange in his new book. January 23, 2018 , After co-founding Liazon, one of the industry’s leading benefits exchanges for employers in 2007, benefits expert Alan Cohen…

Nearly a year after it was promised, Amazon.com Inc.’s cashierless convenience store is slated to open to the public on Monday. The new Amazon Go store, located in the base of Amazon’s main headquarters in Seattle, uses computer vision and machine-learning algorithms to track shoppers and charge…

The Practical Employer Employee’s Refusal to Take Drug Test Dooms Discrimination Claim Don't drug-test employees without a policy protecting both the act of the drug test itself and any employment actions you take against employees as a result. January 18, 2018 , Can an employee, terminated for…

If a Soldier Can’t Build Rapport, They’ll Never Earn the Green Beret In the past year, I’ve had lengthy conversations with one of the Special Forces commanders involved in the battle featured in 12 Strong . Sam MacPherson was a primary planner for combat operations in Afghanistan for Task Force…

Shopping with Amazon Prime just got pricier. Amazon Prime users will now have to pay nearly 20% more per month for memberships, the company announced Friday. It is raising its U.S. monthly fee from $10.99 to $12.99, which works out at $156 per year. The cost of a student membership is also…

When I moved from Google (approximately 70,000 employees) to become CEO of Quizlet (about 30 employees when I started) and started learning more about the small-but-mighty team building our learning platform, there were a number of things that surprised me in my first few weeks. One was that despite…

The investigation into the crash of a Nature Air charter flight in Costa Rica that killed 12 including ten Americans on New Years Eve, took an eyebrow-raising turn when the General Directorate of Civil Aviation, suspended the carrier's operating certificate at the end of last week. The suspension…

Despite being drenched and briefly thrust in to darkness, the largest annoyance for many top tech executives at CES was the shadow of Spectre. The world’s largest electronics show immediately careened toward the twin maladies dubbed Spectre and Meltdown , potentially exploitable weaknesses in the…

One applicant, who was encouraged to apply through his warden, noted that he wanted to be a truck driver. The pay is steady, he wrote, and the freedom of the road seemed like the opposite of a jail cell. He worked at HCT, eventually saving up enough to get his Commercial Driver’s License, but he…

If you invested in the stocks back in 1999, it is hard to observe the bitcoin mania and not experience the feeling that you’ve seen this movie before and know how it will end — in losses and tears. The internet convinced great minds to invest capital and energy into businesses that have transformed…

The Practical Employer An Argument for a More Reasonable Bereavement Leave Policy A flexible bereavement policy will repay you with the knowledge that when the grieving employee returns to work, he or she will be more focused on the task at hand and more loyal and dedicated to you as an employer.…

U.S. stock futures on Tuesday pointed to a rise at the open, putting the Dow Jones Industrial Average on track to build on a record-setting run that has left it up 27% over the past year. What are the main benchmarks doing? Dow Jones Industrial Average futures YMH8, +0.19% tacked on 51 points, or…

Legal Harassment by Emojis Love them or hate them, emojis are here to stay, which may present challenges to HR departments trying to prevent sexual harassment. January 8, 2018 , Appearing in text messages, emails, on T-shirts and even their own movie, emojis — cartoon representations of emotions and…

President Trump has said he doesn’t read a lot , if at all. And prefers to rely on his “common sense.” But could Michael Wolff’s “ Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House ,” a blistering account of the first year of the Trump administration, be enough to get the president — and the rest of…