Author: Sara Causey
24 Dec Saturday Broadcast 29
[buzzsprout episode='11900709' player='true'] Key topics: ✔️ ICYMI news, 12/19 - 12/23. ✔️ So many shenanigans are going on in the job market. PIPs. Changed metrics. Lower performance scores. Relocate or quit. Keep your head on a swivel! ✔️Whether you're looking at the job market or the housing market, Q4...
23 Dec “Fear of being laid off”
-https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/21/the-new-remote-work-trend-fear-of-layoffs-and-not-finding-a-new-job.html Remember the commentators who assured us that remote work is here to stay and employees will simply draw a line in the sand and refuse RTO? I felt like a lone voice in the wilderness saying otherwise. I saw a post the other day on...
22 Dec QTIP & Freelancing Pitfalls People Don’t Talk About
[buzzsprout episode='11874027' player='true'] People who say they've never had a project go sideways or never had a client from hell are either lying through their teeth or they haven't done much business. The anagram QTIP, i.e., quit taking it personally, can help us leave the 💩...
21 Dec “Selling” the opportunity to candidates = a big red flag
Image by Canva. Yeah, I'll be the one to say it. If your team has to rely on an outside source to "sell" job seekers on your company and/or your job postings - you're in trouble. On the other side of the equation, if you are...
20 Dec You mean forced group-think isn’t a good thing?
"Dangers of too much collaboration Collaboration technologies at work could be doing more harm to productivity than good, based on research cited by Harvard Business Review. It suggests a high frequency of app usage is driving micro-stress in the workplace, with 49% of participating employees experiencing...
19 Dec Bonus episode: The gross Salesforce Slack message
[buzzsprout episode='11888911' player='true'] Asking for a friend. 😇 As we said back in the day: eww, grody. Marc Benioff of Salesforce sent the following Slack message to employees on 12/16: How do we increase the productivity of our employees at salesforce? New employees (hired during the pandemic in 2021 &...
18 Dec Hiring managers like to LARP that everyone wants RTO
Image by Pete Linforth from Pixabay Based on what I've experienced firsthand in the job market - the main proponents of RTO are hiring mangers. Well, and paid corporate shills and a$$hole billionaires, but that's basically a statement of the obvious. We hear all sorts of drivel. It's the...
17 Dec Saturday Broadcast 28
[buzzsprout episode='11852644' player='true'] Key topics: ✔️ ICYMI news, 12/11 - 12/16. ✔️ Hybrid workers are the most loyal? What goofy пропаганда is this? ✔️Are remote opps dwindling away? Yep. And I have warned you this would happen for quite some time. ✔️1 in 4 people who took out a govt...
16 Dec “Only 1 in 10 women wants to work mostly on-site”
That says it all, doesn't it. Really dispels this notion that people are begging for RTO. 😒 “Women should absolutely seek out remote/flexible work arrangements,” said Sara Causey, certified human resources manager and owner of Causey Consulting, LLC. “So often, women are still disproportionately responsible for child...