The Upside of Hiring Now

Inc.com: "Why companies who can add employees now should."

"As pink slips pile up nationwide, hiring may seem like a risky – or downright foolish – move for employers. Yet, according to many career counseling experts, if you can afford to, now is a great time to augment your staff..."

Key points:

• There is a much larger pool of extremely talented people who are hungrier than ever
• Employers can find talented and valuable workers who are more open to flexile relationships like contract work or part-time positions
• Companies to look to this labor pool, if not for new hires than to replace their own inefficient workers

Read the article for the full scoop.

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Eight bad tech habits to quit in the new year

msnbc.com offers up a list of Eight bad tech habits to quit in the new year - "Bad habits are hard to break. But as 2009 ushers in a new year, it's time to usher out some of our bad technology-based behavior..."



#6 is probably responsible for a measurable decrease in office productivity. Read the full list...

You can't fire me, I'm drunk!

Ah, OK then...

Reuters: "Peru's top court has ruled that workers cannot be fired for being drunk on the job, a decision that was criticized by the government on Wednesday for setting a dangerous precedent...

The Constitutional Tribunal ordered that Pablo Cayo be given his job back as a janitor for the municipality of Chorrillos, which fired him for being intoxicated at work... Celso Becerra, the administrative chief of Chorrillos, a suburb of Lima, denounced the ruling."

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Recovering From Negative Reviews

WSJ.com Video: "A Web site can be a marketer's lifeline with its customers, but what happens when it's marred with negative reviews and comments? Bruce Weinberg, marketing professor at Bentley University, tells WSJ's Erin White how to address and recover from poor feedback..."

This video addresses how to deal with reviews of a company or product Website. However, it's broad message is applicable to many situations. Feedback received, good or bad, is still better than not knowing about potentially legitimate problems with your product or performance. Watch it here...

Web Culture And The New Ethos Of Work

Stowe Boyd gave a presentation back in July at the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston, entitled Web Culture And The New Ethos Of Work. A colleague on twitter recently pointed out that the slide deck and notes from this presentation are on Mr. Boyd's blog. Some interesting ideas, check it out...

Happy New Year!

We have some exciting site improvements planned for 2009, and can't wait to share them with you.

Here are a few new things you can start taking advantage of right away:

• Get Valuable Feedback with our improved request feedback feature
• Browse and select pre-made Review Templates - choose to give or request feedback on Work Performance, Events/Milestones, or Documents/Deliverables
• Create your own Review Template from scratch - from a simple question, to a detailed structured form, you can ask exactly what you want