Blue Apron laid off 6% of its roughly 5,000 person workforce on Wednesday. The meal-kit company is attempting a “realignment,” the CEO said in a letter to employees. The company has struggled since its disappointing IPO in June. Blue Apron has laid off 6% of its total workforce, the company announced in an […]
Financially Stable Employees Are More Dependable If you want to help employees learn about their personal finances, they need to know that they could be spending too much on goods and services [they] don’t need; or make savings in critical areas. In America alone, personal debt averages more than $130,000 per household with debt. Now
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If you’re tired of reading cliché “fail forward” or “failing is succeeding” stories, you’re in luck. This isn’t one of those. This is about the mistakes — big ones — that my professional speaker colleague Kristen Hadeed, entrepreneur and CEO of Student Maid, made over her last 10 years in business. She recently gathered these
The world’s top companies are starting to manage employee energy like a strategic asset. They know that ever-increasingly pace of change requires more and more human energy. Any entrepreneur will tell you that it take a tonne of energy to grow a business. The key is to manage it; sometimes you have to exert energy, other times you need to
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A senior employee, let’s name him Alex, is pacing outside the executive conference room doors. He is waiting for his manager to get out of her meeting. Alex has been trying to get time with his boss, but she is continuously in back-to-back meetings all day. If he can walk and talk with her as
Building a successful business requires engaging with a lot of different people — customers, social media followers, even your own employees. There’s no shortage of options for increasing engagement. And members of the online small business community have some thoughts to share. Read on for tips on building brand engagement and more. Build Up Brand
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VISHNU_KV / Pixabay The specter of insider threats hangs over every employee in an organization. An employee can inadvertently be a threat after opening a suspicious email, may intentionally cause a breach for profit, or may be impacted after a breach occurs. Enlisting all employees in your insider threat mission is a critical need. Communication
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Finding good employees can be time consuming and expensive, so it only makes sense that you would want to keep great workers around for the long haul. If a quality worker has ever exited your business, then you probably understand the vacuum that can be left in their wake. Suddenly, work is completed more slowly,
Executive Summary The consumer products landscape is in the midst of a significant digital shake up. Success of these new ideas and approaches depends on the abilities, skills, and mindset of the company’s workforce. Work with leading consumer products companies around the world shows that there are clear practices and investments that drive a greater
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Usefulness Content Freshness Are you hiring to the best of your ability? If not, take a peak at Scott Wintrip’s “High Velocity Hiring: How to Hire Top Talent in an Instant “. This book, written by an expert with 20+ years of recruiting experience, offers a
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