COVID-19 is ushering in a new form of privilege. There are four adults in my home. We have five vehicles. Late Wednesday night, I was driving home, sitting at a stoplight, and a bus came through the intersection. The header on the front of the bus said: “Essential Travel Only.” On the bus, there…
“There is going to be a level of trauma that people remember from this moment.” That’s from Joey Price, thought leader, founder of Jumpstart: HR, LLC, and host of Business, Life, and Coffee. Joey joined me on Punk Rock HR recently to talk about work and life in the face of COVID-19. One of the…
I came into the first recession unequipped to run a business. As a newly departed HR leader, I was comfortable telling you what you’re doing wrong but not entirely proficient at applying those same principles to my professional life. Not much has changed since then, but I know this: we’re in the early stages of…
Covid-19 has taught me to be more conscious of how I spend my time, money, and energy. “The Curve is Flattening,” “What Our New Normal May Look Like,” “Get People Back to Work!” I have been seeing headlines like these all week and it freaks me out. I’m lucky, I live in a state that…
Happy Sunday! I’m thrilled about this week on Punk Rock HR. My guest is Joey Price, founder of Jumpstart HR and host of the Business, Life and Coffee Podcast. We’re talking about COVID-19, but mostly how to be human and survive in these uncertain times. The episode airs tomorrow and you can find it on…
By Devon McGrath This week our (home) office got two new coworkers. They’re easily distracted and prone to bickering. I often catch them sleeping on the job and when they’re awake, they think it’s fun to interrupt my video calls. I can’t hold it against them though. They’re young, siblings, and growing up is hard…
18.2 million students are going through something we’ve never experienced. Let’s cut them some slack. At this time, two years ago, my ass was firmly planted at the New Bar on campus at University College Cork. Seated with two close friends, we had our 4 pm happy hour before going to one of our most…
Standing on a street corner waiting for no one is power. – Gregory Corso During my final year in college, I was a contract recruiter at Monsanto in St. Louis. I helped hire engineers, chemists, and drafters for agricultural and manufacturing facilities around America. Please don’t blackout from the boredom. It was a temporary job…
Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic-stricken. – Jack Kerouac This upcoming week for HR professionals feels like it will be a doozy. Furloughs are the new layoffs. Remote work is still messy. And even procurement teams are coming to HR and flipping out because very few companies have…
When you have your health, you have everything. — Augusten Burroughs We’re living in an age of social distancing and extreme handwashing that’s been mapped, like a terrible Venn Diagram, on top of a world plagued by loneliness. How do we protect our loved ones? How do we educate our kids? How do we find…
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