Trending New HR Tech Event Unleashed European-based HR industry event organizer HRN is running its second U.S. conference in May and going head to head with the existing HR Technology Conference. January 16, 2018 , European-based HR industry event organizer HRN, which is behind a fledgling U.S. HR…

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…

Finding an in-network doctor using the online service Zocdoc was supposed to be easy. That’s Zocdoc’s whole premise, after all: Users input their health insurance information, and the service returns a list of in-network doctors, along with their availability in the coming days and weeks. But Zocdoc…

Benefits Beat Benefits Offerings Shouldn’t Be a Puzzle to Assemble Before you move forward and make any significant changes to your benefits ecosystem, consider how they will fit into your current environment. January 3, 2018 , Many of our clients are waiting for the release of a technology solution…

Technology Plugging In: Technology Continues Its Surge Through HR Departments HR tech, meet HR’s vast life cycle. And it takes a special kind of manager these days to marry the two. January 1, 2018 , Human resources technology managers are hot commodities. The most desirable are well versed on the…

President Donald Trump ended 2017 much the same way he spent it — on Twitter, needling his foes, as he wished a happy new year to his “enemies,” his “haters” and even the “Fake News Media.” As our Country rapidly grows stronger and smarter, I want to wish all of my friends, supporters, enemies,…

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Digital investing advice has evolved in the past several years from digital-only to a hybrid that includes advice from human beings — and assets on these platforms have grown substantially. In 2018, experts expect that trend to continue, but with a face-lift for the traditional and hybrid “robo…

FAANG stocks — Facebook, Apple Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Netflix Inc. and Google parent Alphabet Inc., which have all generated a lot of buzz this year — can take a seat in coach class because the biggest gainer on the Dow Jones Industrial Average this year has outperformed the lot, even though it’s…

Joe Heller Joe Heller/Cartoon of the Day The New York Times and Politico report the existence of the Pentagon's secret Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program, begun at the instigation of then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. This makes sense: Nevada is where Area 51 is, after all. "My…