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Supporting Employees Through Tough Times
We have often spoken about the need to admit that the vast majority of workers have never quite recovered after the trauma of the pandemic. This is constantly and bizarrely overlooked in all industries and despite living and breathing people topics and speaking to tens of companies, we can’t...
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The Dark Side of the Tech Layoffs Wave
The Dark Side of the Tech Layoffs Wave
I find it nothing short of astounding how willing we are to turn a blind eye to some horrendous things in the knowledge industry. There's so much that's common knowledge and we still carry on about our day trying to fit sideways around major elephants blocking the room and ignoring naked...
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They Say You Can't Spell "Hero" Without "HR"
They Say You Can't Spell "Hero" Without "HR"
Today’s video is appealing to HR and it is straight from the heart. People need a people hero to establish the need for the human work and they need them yesterday. Over the past week, the terrifying events at Twitter (and Meta) are a lot worse than meets the eye. This calls for a major...
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Help Build -Some of- the Metaverse
Help Build -Some of- the Metaverse
I was going to tell you all about my Elon indignation again on here but being that I already covered it twice this week and that given enough rope and time he’ll soon hang himself again, let’s ignore his actions that only suggest maybe he’s taking his belief that we live in a simulation to the...
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How to Get and Keep Talent in the Midst of the Many Workplace Crisis
How to Get and Keep Talent in the Midst of the Many Workplace Crisis
In a world that’s crying out for heroes and feel-good stories, it’s little wonder someone like Elon Musk is capturing the imagination of so many and I was indeed expecting yesterday’s article to be unsavoury to them. What I didn’t expect was for their objection not to be encompassed in a defence...
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A Mistake Not Even Elon Can Afford
A Mistake Not Even Elon Can Afford
No one reading this can possibly have escaped rumblings of the furore of the Twitter layoffs and everyone on LinkedIn seems to be discussing it so I won't repeat the background other than to say that within days of being acquired, Twitter has seen a wave of dismissal of seismic proportions in a...