A California state audit revealed that a Department of Motor Vehicles employee took three-hour naps at work every day for four years. The unnamed data operator will reportedly not be disciplined because the infractions weren’t documented properly. The dozing amounted to 2,200 hours of work time and […]
According to a Justice Department survey, one-third of the U.S. working-age population has a criminal record. The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) and the Charles Koch Institute (CKI) conducted a study showing that many employees, managers, and Human Resources (HR) professionals, are open to working with […]
My favorite culture story, which I share in my keynote address, highlights Chick-fil-A, a fast-food restaurant based in the United States, which is a benchmark for all things employee engagement. I complimented a worker on the fantastic customer experience and heard, “It’s our culture.” Music to my […]
Smart companies understand how employees are collaborating, the effectiveness of their knowledge management tools and practices, and the level of employee confidence in the security and their ability to use the tools at work. Study after study shows that employees lack a central hub for storing company […]
More than 50 percent of the U.S. workforce is between the ages of 18 and 34 years old, which means millennials now represent the largest share of workers in America. As demographics change, so too must the way companies hire and retain this generation of workers, as […]
Ingvar Kamprad. Not a household name, but a Swedish business legacy nonetheless. The world lost Kamprad – the founder of IKEA – in 2018. Kamprad founded IKEA at 17, by selling replicas of his uncle’s kitchen table. The chain now has more than 400 locations, $62 billion […]
In many areas of the world, cold weather is upon us, driving some animals underground. According to the Farmer’s Almanac, most toads, frogs, snakes, skunks, rodents and bears go torpid, their metabolism slows down and their body temperature drops, so less energy is needed at a time […]
Aurea conducted research with Gartner about employee engagement. And guess what? People who are creating a business out of telling you millennials are ‘different’ are wrong. Like the media, they are creating a divide, so they can step in and ‘help.’ Some key findings of the research […]
Many of us learned in the past year that we take things for granted. We are given harvests, but until they were taken away, we didn’t realize how fortunate we were. Every day, leaders around the world till the soil and plant seeds, in the hopes of […]
