by Girish Anand | Jun 16, 2009 | Random Musings, Uncategorized
We can be grateful to Twitter for bringing us the truth out of Iran in the ongoing civil unrest, but at least one unspecified firm has seen fit to warn against using Twitter–if the fire alarm goes off:
by Girish Anand | Mar 10, 2009 | Uncategorized
Sources tell Personnel Concepts that the much-feared-by-business Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) will be introduced in the House of Representatives today. Well, nothing new here. EFCA made it through the House’s 435 members once before and passed with flying...
by Girish Anand | Feb 20, 2009 | Uncategorized
A week ago, I warned you about the skyscraper index: As more cloud-hugging buildings are built, the economy goes the other direction, down, in other words. Now, here are a couple of more useful, or maybe useless, indices. The first one is the cardboard box index,...
by Girish Anand | Feb 17, 2009 | Uncategorized
A lot is being written, human resources- and management-wise, about so-called millennials in the workplace, millennials being those born between 1980 and 2000. One respected HR authority whom I routinely read, Susan Heathfield, even offers “Eleven Tips for...
by Girish Anand | Jan 28, 2009 | Uncategorized
Okay, forget the official figure of 7.2 percent that the media quote for U.S. unemployment. As the accompanying graphic from Shadow Stats shows, what the media report is called the U3 unemployment rate–the officially unemployed shown on the bottom red line. When...
by Girish Anand | Jan 20, 2009 | Health Care Reform, Uncategorized
I found this interesting. It was on some far-left (the author called himself progressive, but he was way off the spectrum) blog, and it’s a list of who’s received the most in campaign donations from the insurance industry, to wit: John McCain (R-AZ)...
