Articles by Suzanne Lucas

If you want a raise, you need to prove your worth, do your research, and ask for it! This is great advice to employees, but I have to ask, why is this the employee's responsibility? It's time to flip the tables...

It's a year into the pandemic, and we're all tired of Zoom meetings, but one woman may owe her life to a Zoom court hearing. State attorney assistant Deborah Davis noticed that the victim in a domestic abuse hearing acted strangely, and she asked the judge to investigate. The police came and found...

New York State just passed a law--effective March 12, 2021--that requires businesses to provide four hours of paid time off (PTO) for each Covid-19 vaccination an employee receives. This means...

The Centers for Disease Control reported that, as of late June, 40 percent of adults were struggling with mental health or substance abuse. Forty percent. Chances are, a good number of your employees are in that 40 percent, and you may well be also...

Just about everyone wants to see life get back to normal--whatever that means. But, how do you do it safely? Some businesses are talking about doing antibody testing for COVID-19 [[our style on this is Covid-19]] to determine if people are safe to return to work. Normally...

Rent the Runway laid off all of its brick-and-mortar staff. With stores shut and parties canceled, layoffs make complete sense. But they reportedly did it via Zoom. Is that acceptable? In the pre-social distancing rules...

Just a few days ago, the House passed the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) and then changed it to make the Senate happy. Today...

Have you ever worked with a narcissist? As they go around, leaving havoc in their wake, they seem positively unperturbed at what they've done. And new research says this isn't an act. Some narcissists are...

Harvard said that they would not renew Professor Ronald S. Sullivan Jr. and his wife, Stephanie Robinson, positions as faculty deans of Winthrop House, a dorm for undergraduate student after student protest

Why were students upset...