An Open Letter to Small Businesses: Stay Alive
The best thing small business owners can do for their employees is whatever it takes to survive long enough to employ them when this crisis is over
Tagged: employment
It Really is All About the Money
Pretending to be bewildered at the failure of recruitment and retention efforts while denying that compensation plays a role is bad business, even for government.
Ordinary World: Throwback Thursday
Over ten years, Ordinary Times has over 15K posts. Here are a few that you should check out, and are interesting today in hindsight.
An Economist Nitpicks Sci-Fi: Employment in The Expanse
Many scientists like to nitpick science fiction, but why should they have all the fun?
First Monday 2014
Same cast, brand new season! Burt Likko offers a look at some of the high points of the Supreme Court’s docket for the 2014-2015 Term.
Let My People Go
One company begins an experiment in ways to take enlightened management techniques down a notch, conveniently in the middle of union negotiations. Burt Likko offers a few answers to the question, “What could possibly go wrong?”
Non-Contractual Employment
An employment lawyer entertains a very radical idea. Except it may already be real!
Young People of the Internet: You Should Go to College, and You Should Really Stop Telling Other People Not To
More an more, people on the Internet are arguing that young people are better off in the long run by skipping college. They’re wrong.
Why You Should Stop Being a Loyal Employee
It’s Stupid Tuesday over at Blinded Trials, and this week Russell asks what eras have we passed in our lives, when we declared, “to [ourselves] and to others, ‘I once was this, but now...
Basketball Bet: Bad Bankruptcy Barrister
Randy Harris won our NCAA pool this year and has selected me to write an article in response to this hypothetical, which I present here with minor editorial changes from what Randy sent me:...
The destructiveness of “hard work”
Few things in American society are as universally revered as a good work ethic. It’s one of the core values we attempt to instill in our offspring. Commentators and politicians have been known to...
