Category: Employee Engagement

  • Office Friendships Can Hurt Your Career–A Lesson Learned The Hard Way

    BY ALLIE HOFER Regardless of our specific fields, we all have experience with personal relationships in the workplace. Anywhere from the daily exchange of a cheesy colloquialism to a close friendship cultivated over years of working together, it’s inevitable that the line between personal and professional will be blurred and the two sectors will intertwine.…

  • What Would You Sacrifice to Work from Home?

    Jessica HowingtonFlexJobs Content Manager Working from home is often the most esteemed and coveted of all flexible employment arrangements. With this in mind, if you had the potential to work remotely and make a choice on benefits, what would you sacrifice to work from home? Would you be willing to make a sacrifice? Should you…

  • The Importance of Emotional Intelligence at Work

    Use These 7 Emotional Intelligence Tips to Be a Better Leader Mariah DeLeon • Guest Writer   Scholars may have coined the term “emotional intelligence” in the early 1990s, but business leaders quickly took the concept and made it their own. According to emotional intelligence, or EQ, success is strongly influenced by personal qualities such as perseverance, self-control…

  • How Power Changes People – the Paradox of Power

    THE PSYCHOLOGY OF POWER First there was Bill Cosby’s sexual harassment charges, then the Uber Crisis and CEO Travis Kalanick’s resignation amid an investor revolt and just last month, movie mogul  Harvey Weinstein was ousted from Miramax by his own board of directors in light of dozens of sexual harassment allegations. Some of these behaviours…

  • Are Millennials Really Job Hoppers?

    So the story that millennials job hop a lot is true, but they don’t really differ from previous generations…