Gruntled Employees
"Managers, executives, in-house counsel, and HR people know all about disgruntled employees. They cost employers billions of dollars each year in lawsuits, attorney fees, lost productivity, and wasted time. Here we discuss how to keep employees gruntled. We also talk about dealing with your lawyers."
Author: Jay Shepherd is chief executive of Shepherd, an employment law firm in Boston. He also authors Client Revolution.
Blawg Related Categories: Careers • Work/Life Balance • Labor & Employment • Solo / Small Firm
Recent Posts from Gruntled Employees
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Sugarcoated terminations
This might sound obvious, but when you’re firing an employee, you need to tell the truth. Actually, that’s only half right. Well, closer to two thirds. Anyone who’s ever watched Law and Order or been…
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The wrong question
Too often, when managers and HR professionals get employee requests for special treatment, accommodations, or departures from policy, they ask themselves the wrong question: What if another employee finds out, and then asks for the…
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Does your company need a smartphone policy?
Are your employees twittering during meetings? Texting during conference calls? Checking Facebook on their iPhones during training? As more employees carry and use iPhones and BlackBerrys, some employers are fretting about an increase in impolite…
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Nickel-and-diming your employees
Lucy works as a salesperson for a machine-parts company in the Pacific Northwest. She has to travel a lot to make sales calls; often out of state. Because she's on the road so much, she…
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Thanks
Gruntled Employees started 33 months ago with a post criticizing Radio Shack for firing employees by email ("Radio Shack Deletes 400 Workers, Common Sense"). A couple of days ago, our 122nd post castigated a law…
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"Please leave your layoff message after the beep"
The always-excellent Carolyn Elefant has this post, "U.K. Lawyers Get the Message: 1-800-U-R-Fired," over at one of my favorite blawgs, Legal Blog Watch. Carolyn reports (citing a Daily Mail story) on how 14 trainee solicitors…
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Employers' Rx for swine flu? Eliminate sick days
You may have noticed that you can't spell pandemic without P-A-N-I-C. Today, the World Health Organization raised its pandemic flu alert to DEFCON 3. Or something. Actually, it's called "Phase 6," WHO's highest pandemic alert…
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How Twitter will kill annual performance reviews
My daughters go to elementary school in Newton, Massachusetts. The principal — who is, sad to say, retiring this year — is a brilliant, caring, dynamic educator named Christine Moynihan. One of our favorite things…
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I hate people, but I love this blog
I don't really hate people. I'd really be in the wrong business as an employment lawyer if I did. But "I hate people" is the name of a terrific blog I recently learned about. Its…
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One employer's alternative to layoffs
We’ve written a lot about layoffs lately: "Of layoffs and leaks," "Layoffs: Do you want the good news first?" "The pink-slip blues," and "Monday, Bloody Monday." But here’s one company that took a daring and…