How to Make Your Job Feel More Like Valentine’s Day and Less Like Friday the 13th

If you’re like me and other standard 9-to-5ers, you spend more than a third of your day at work and half that amount of time — or less — with those you’ve chosen to be in your life. With all that time devoted to work, managing the long-term relationship with your job is essential to keeping you, and your coworkers, safe. So, are you maintaining your job as you would any long-term relationship?

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What Your IT Guy Wishes You Knew About BYOD

BYOD. Yes, it sounds like something that should be included on a party invitation. But to your IT team, BYOD is anything but a tasty beverage because it requests people to Bring Your Own Device. According to a Gartner study, 38 percent of companies expect to stop providing devices to workers by 2016. This means the purchasing decision will potentially be in your hands.

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How SharePoint Adds Hidden Value to Talent Development and For Less Money

There seems to be a new buzzword in the training industry — from gamification and mobile learning to HTML5 and MOOCs. One key word that has gained a firm foothold on the industry and is one of the most important buzzwords in corporate HR and training is talent development. While many companies have increased their learning and development budgets to address this issue, there is an overlooked resource in SharePoint that can add value to any talent development program.

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