Archive for June, 2008
Images from CareerBuilder’s 2008 SHRM Experience
Jun 27, 2008
We had such a great time meeting, greeting, and interacting with the attendees and fellow exhibitors of SHRM’s 2008 Annual Conference - and we have the pictures to prove it! Here are a few of our favorites…
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What Was Hot, What Was Not: SHRM 2008 Crowd Reactions
Jun 26, 2008
I spent most of my time on Tuesday, the last day of the SHRM conference, wandering around. Half of my time was spent trying not to get lost, and the other half was spent either 1) eating or 2) talking to people. In my moments of talking to attendees and exhibitors, I found out a lot of useful and interesting tidbits. My eating time was not actually wasted, either - you’d be surprised to find out how much people will tell you while lingering over a small electric grill and a smattering of juicy bite-size steak samples.
So, what was HOT and what was NOT, according to the people on the street - er - exhibit aisles of McCormick Place?
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The Top 5 Exhibits that Made me Stop and Pause — SHRM 2008
Jun 25, 2008
Shiny bottles full of liquid of every hue as far as the eye can see. Men and women from all corners of the country clutching sweating bottles of Bud Light and juggling wine glasses as they continuously dodge oncoming traffic.
SHRM 2008 exhibitors going above and beyond
Jun 23, 2008
Three days. 16,000 people. Millions of free pens. The SHRM 2008 Conference and Exposition is in full swing in Chicago.
Among the speaker highlights so far were opening keynote speaker Sidney Poitier (yes, that Sidney Poitier) on Sunday and author and The Table Group, Inc. president Patrick Lencioni, who spoke this morning. You can get a good rundown of some of the speakers and sessions here, or here. While SHRM’s lined up some impressive presenters this year, the exhibitors, with their increasingly creative displays and fancy giveaways, seem to be just as big a draw for attendees.
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Employers Must be Forward-Thinking Amid Rising Fuel Costs…or Employees are Gone
Jun 20, 2008
In a previous post, I talked about the effect of fuel costs on employees, as well as various ways that employers are alleviating these pains. However, it seems that although the impact has been fast and furious, some employers are a bit slow on the draw in adopting workplace changes. Employers must be forward-thinking in the midst of our current (and not-ending-anytime-soon) fuel crisis - or they risk employees becoming frustrated and leaving.
In a recent Robert Half survey, 44 percent of workers said that higher gas prices have affected their work arrangements or method of commuting, up 10 percent from 2006. The top changes they are making? Increasing carpooling/ridesharing, driving a more fuel-efficient car, telecommuting, or looking for a new job that’s closer to home. That’s right - looking for a new job.
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Employees name top workplace frustrations
Jun 18, 2008
Perhaps encouraged by the response to a recent column about the reasons GenXers are unhappy at work (a piece that elicited over 430 reader comments and generated a follow-up slideshow on the subject), BusinessWeek recently launched on an online survey, asking all readers to voice their workplace pet peeves for publication in a mid-August special issue.
So far, nearly 8,500 readers commented or cast their votes, allowing the news magazine to narrow the top workplace complaints down to these six: Read the rest
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- Categories Employee Retention, Generational Hiring, Survey Results
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