Bugle #38: No Phones on Break!
Happy Friday Friend! 2018 – this is the year all your dreams come true! You got this. We spent the last couple of weeks polishing off everything that fell out of our new editor updates, and we also patched up some issues with handling rehired employees.
Of course we also put together the best HR, leadership, and policy management articles from the past 2 weeks. Enjoy!
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Article of the Week: This week’s highlighted article (look for the ✦ below) is inspired by a recent 3-day spell sans smartphone. By the third day, I wasn’t instinctively reaching for it in those situations where you often do (like when you’re stopped at a red light that you know takes forever to turn green). It was nice to just look around instead and I promised myself I wouldn’t look at my phone at stoplights anymore. So far, so good.
Show Employees You Care
- Act Last, Read the Room, and Taste the Soup
- Tomorrow Half Your Company Is Quitting (So Win Them Back)
- Workplace Friendships: The Benefits and Challenges
- Entry Interviews, not Exit Interviews
- Why People Really Quit Their Jobs
The Crown
Protect Your Company
- A Real Stinker of an ADA Lawsuit
- Investigating Claims of Harassment, Part 1: The Complaint
- An Intern by Any Other Name… May Not be an Employee
- FMLA lacks clear boundaries for employee contact during leave
- ‘Royal’ additions: handling HR issues that arise due to marriage and childbirth
Become a Better You
Tom O'Dea
Tom is the CEO and co-founder of Blissbook, where he helps HR teams craft and distribute culture-first, digital employee handbooks. For over 10 years, he’s partnered with hundreds of organizations and thousands of HR pros to develop clear, engaging HR policies, employee handbooks, and more. At home, his two daughters provide daily reminders that even the best-written policies are open to interpretation.