A business lunch can range from two colleagues meeting to discuss a new idea to a job interview for a corporate position. Sure, lunch sounds simple enough. Order an iced tea and a grilled chicken salad and engage in professional conversation. But something as simple as a business lunch can go poorly. Showing up late, [...]

One of the hardest obstacles for companies to overcome when debating telecommuting is whether employees will be actually working or just lounging on the couch watching daytime TV. A new study from Brigham Young University reveals telecommuters who have flextime have better work-life balance. The study looked at 24,436 IBM employees in 75 countries to [...]

One of the hardest obstacles for companies to overcome when debating telecommuting is whether employees will be actually working or just lounging on the couch watching daytime TV. A new study from Brigham Young University reveals telecommuters who have flextime have better work-life balance. The study looked at 24,436 IBM employees in 75 countries to [...]

In this world of e-mail, texting, Twitter, Facebook postings and LinkedIn messages, we’ve all grown comfortable with shooting off a few words of thanks to a colleague, customer or supervisor. There may be a new generation of workers who have no idea how to write a thank-you note unless it appears in a text as [...]

If we’ve learned anything from the Internet, it’s that information is shared and it’s shared immediately and with the world. For businesses, this can be both wonderful and worrisome. You can reap incredible benefits of positive word-of-mouth marketing or you can find yourself in a public relations quagmire. One of the toughest situations for businesses [...]