For Your Benefit Employees Asked to Mail It in to Fight Opioid Crisis Providing employees with safe and secure medication disposal is a preventative measure to fight the opioid crisis and a logical counterpart to pharmacy benefits programs. May 8, 2018 , With the opioid epidemic costing employers…

Work in Progress Get Ambitious in Your Hiring Fact is, you need ambitious people. You probably don’t have enough of them. Here are four ways you can determine candidates with ambition in their DNA. May 4, 2018 , Dissatisfaction is a symptom of ambition. It’s the coal that fuels the fire.” — Trudy…

The Practical Employer 5.1 Million Reasons to Keep Religion Out of Your Workplace Your employees have the right to practice the religion of their choice or not to practice any religion at all. May 2, 2018 , “Onionhead” teaches people to direct their emotions in a truthful and compassionate way. It…

The Practical Employer Hair Discrimination: Not a Thing Can an employer run afoul of discrimination laws by making an employment decision based on one’s hair style? April 30, 2018 , “Give me a head with hair, long beautiful hair Shining, gleaming, steaming, flaxen, waxen Give me down to there hair,…

Obtaining signatures for business documents doesn’t seem like much of a business, but highly valued startup DocuSign Inc. believes it represents a $25 billion market. DocuSign DOCU, +0.00% which enables companies to provide forms to customers and obtain their legally binding electronic signatures on…

Wal-Mart is the latest company to consider a more casual workplace dress code. And while such a move may be geared toward attracting job applicants, it’s also leaving workers confused. The big-box retailer is testing a new, more relaxed dress code in some of its stores. Workers in those locations…

In recent news , Jack Daniels has sued the companies behind the Lonehand Whiskey brand, amongst others, for damaging the Jack Daniels brand. The complaint was made on April 20th, against Dynasty Spirits in Dallas and Houston's Gulf Coast Distillers, who are allegedly selling a variety of different…

Companies increasingly register the raw power of online discontent — for example the #MeToo and #NeverAgain movements. Power nowadays lives and dies on the strength of one deceptively powerful tool: the hashtag symbol. Put another way, he who controls the hashtag controls the conversation. This…

Training Starbucks to Implement Unconscious Bias Training After protests erupt at Starbucks, the company announces unconscious bias training for all employees. But will it make a difference? April 18, 2018 , Starbucks Coffee Co. announced it will close more than 8,000 stores the afternoon of May 29…

Shutterstock / Paint Dang it Jeff. Pornhub accepts Verge now. Pornhub, the website you always happen to have open when your mom calls, is now accepting cryptocurrency payments in the form of Verge (XVG), cryptocurrency apparently improved upon the original Bitcoin blockchain. Clearly at some point…

President Trump’s executive order for an analysis of the U.S. Postal Service’s financial situation may finally end his tweets asserting that Amazon.com Inc. is underpaying for mail delivery. The order, issued late Thursday, doesn’t mention Amazon AMZN, -1.22% specifically. However, Trump has taken…

Compensation Dozens Rally for Parity at Equal Pay Day Chicago Event A director at nonprofit Women Employed explains the significance of Equal Pay Day and how employers can address pay inequities within their own organization. April 12, 2018 , Federal data shows that full-time working women earn 80…

The Practical Employer The Other Side of Diversity One side says that employers cannot discriminate against minorities. The other says that employers cannot discriminate against non-minorities in favor of minorities. April 11, 2018 , Workplace diversity has two sides. One side says that employers…

What exactly is "Democratization of Disaster Recovery"? In the IT world, disaster recovery is the ability for an organization to return to operations in the event of, well, a disaster. In my IT experience, my concerns were focused on hurricanes and earthquakes (I was in IT for the States of Florida…

You can read the full version of Richard’s letter at The Moneyist Facebook Group. Dear Moneyist, When I was 6 years old my parents split and there was a nasty divorce. They were both teachers and were working in the Bahamas in the 1960s. There was a custody dispute and I was kidnapped by my father…

As the tech sector takes a header, the key question for stock-market bulls revolves around how much its leadership really matters for the broader market. Technology shares were under pressure again Wednesday, with megacap companies putting in a mixed performance a day after succumbing to a…