As the world looks to provide cheaper services to its customers at the cost of its employees, Sweden has moved away from the paradigm by implementing six hour workday. Yes, you did read it right. The Scandinavian country has… Continue Reading
HP blundered when it put some of its employees on pink slip notice and later denied ever doing it. Continue Reading
According to the Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology’s (JOOP) study, the person who gets interviewed fourth is most likely to bag the job. Just when you thought numbers and numerology don’t matter to your success, this study will flip your beliefs… Continue Reading
It is standard these days that people who work for a salary work for eight hours a day excluding the breaks. Project costing and resourcing is also based on this theory. Some countries like India make people work for nine… Continue Reading
I recently got an email from a lady, an IT professional from the Netherlands who was sacked earlier in the week. She wrote to me asking my advice on how she can become employable and whether ITIL is a suitable… Continue Reading
Normal IT crowd sit in cubicles. Your nearest neighbor sits within a hand-wave and you can hear every single conversation and all the human sounds such as coughs within a couple of meters radius. This distraction you might consider as… Continue Reading
The term work-life balance is overused and many a time, it is misused. Most organizations in the name of achieving this balance, create policies that theoretically hopes to achieve it but in reality, it fails miserably. For example, a particular… Continue Reading
There has been a number of pointers and tips over the years on how employees can achieve balance between work and personal life, and how the employers must make room for employees to spend more time out of offices. Most… Continue Reading