Nineteen United Parcel Service employees are suing the giant parcel distributor, saying they suffered repeated racial discrimination and the company did nothing to stop it, according to published reports...

What manager wouldn’t love to walk into the office each morning to a group of smiling, eager employees, ready to take on the day? 

But the reality is… that just doesn’t happen...

For many companies, discussing salaries has always been taboo. Some firms even required new hires to sign an agreement swearing they wouldn’t disclose their pay to co-workers. 

This “loose lips sink ships” approach is largely illegal, of course...

CollegeWise is the leading college admissions agency in the world. It scores in the 99th percentile in Gallup engagement surveys. And for the past four years, it has had a near 0 percent turnover rate.

The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) puts the annual turnover rate for companies at around...

What does it mean for a company's leaders to be accountable? It's a question worth thinking about as Lyft, the ride-hailing startup, prepares to go public with an ownership structure that's both controversial and increasingly the norm for high-growth tech firms. 

Lyft's two co-founders, Logan Green and John Zimmer, together own...

Most days you may feel like employees’ cell phones are surgically attached to their hands – at their desks, in meetings, even in the company restroom! But beware: Those little devices can saddle you with a big legal bill.

How big? Try $5.4 million...

To cut costs whenever and wherever possible, your finance staffers must be able to recognize purchases that qualify for sales and use tax exemptions. But that’s easier said than done.  

Even B.J. Pritchett, president of Pritchett Sales & Use Tax Consulting, admits that...

If you haven’t been boycotting the news this week, then you’ve probably heard about the big college admissions scandal. According to the New York Times...

This headline above was a key finding in a management study I recently happened across. Specifically, 36% of employees felt so strongly about recognition (or lack of it) that it was "the number one reason they're considering switching jobs."

This stat was from...

This is the second Valentine’s Day since the #MeToo movement erupted in 2017, and these new survey results reveal that office romance is still alive and well. Despite organizational efforts to...

The only thing that stays the same in business is change, and such seems to be its pace that every day presents new challenges and opportunities. So how managers adapt to the changing horizon can make the difference between surviving or thriving.

In other words...

Its 2003. 

The dust from the dot-bomb explosion is settling, and I start a small (and I mean small) content-marketing company www.businesswatchnetwork (BWN). I vividly recall the first company server in my basement, connected to a 750MB DSL circuit - adjacent the plywood shelving where my 12-year old son’s baseball and hockey equipment waited patiently for the next game.

As U.S. companies are on track for $1 trillion in buybacks, according to Goldman Sachs, there have been deep, dark concerns that these are financially driven market manipulations that are taking money out of worker’s pockets.

Politicians may not agree on...

We all have our own way of referring to intuition…’something tells me,’ ‘I just have this feeling,’ ‘my intuitive reaction is’ and on and on. Some of us listen to those voices, others...

Ask anyone working at Intuit and they will tell you that former Intuit CEO Brad Smith is the type of person you feel lucky to know and call a friend. After 11 years as CEO...

Four titans who defined a new era in business during the past decade recently concluded their terms: PepsiCo’s Indra Nooyi, Unilever’s Paul Polman, Mayo Clinic’s John Noseworthy, and US Bancorp’s Richard Davis.

When they became CEOs...

It’s simply a given that leaders carefully set and monitor lofty goals, and it’s an accepted trope of managerial culture that we encourage others to do the same...

The tech giant reportedly used various tax breaks and credits to claim a $129 million rebate on $11 billion in profits last year.

Amazon almost doubled its profits from $5.6 billion in 2017 to $11.2 billion in 2018, but the company isn’t expected to pay...