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5 ways to fight age and gender discrimination in the workplace
On 24 January 2019, in Boston, Workable hosted a panel discussion titled Diversity in Gender & Age: The Career Challenges Fa...
Can we discuss politics or other controversial topics at work?
Let’s say that one of your employees posts a racist joke on their personal social media page. Even if it was meant by that emplo...
Why I’m cautious about remote work
For all its many virtues, the remote work trend could be making light of human development in the workplace. Does it impede your...
Why your business isn’t a ‘family’
Businesses with good intentions refer to their companies as a “families” in product pages, careers pages, job descriptions and e...
How to reduce new hire turnover
To reduce new hire turnover, it's crucial to improve your hiring process by being clear about the role and evaluating candidates...
How to write an employee handbook
An employee handbook is a vital tool for communicating a company's mission, values, and expectations. It serves as a guide for n...
How to write a recruitment policy
A recruitment policy is a standardized framework – or rulebook – that establishes a standard for all your recruitment practices ...
Why even ‘casual’ companies should have dress codes
Companies should have dress codes to define what professionalism looks like in their workplace. Dress codes can clarify roles, c...
The limits of euphemism
As individuals it is likely that we have differing degrees of tolerance for being spoken to indirectly. And yet most of us are e...
The most popular company policies
Most employee handbooks include policies like anti-discrimination, confidentiality, code of conduct and attendance. Though those...
Holacracy after the hype: lessons for business
It has often been tough to separate Holacracy from its accompanying hype. The alternative management system, meant to distribute...
The dishonest myth of work-life balance
There are some truly bad ideas that are nonetheless born survivors. The notion of “work-life balance,” popularized in the 1980s,...