NERDALERT BLOG
The New Learning Paradigm Isn’t About the Platform, It’s About the Content
I love Josh Bersin's ideas and perspective on HR. Usually. But his recently published article, A New Paradigm For Corporate Training: Learning In The Flow of Work, misses something major in my mind. His New Paradigm [...]
Artificial Intelligence for HR is Like Teenage Sex
Artificial Intelligence is a lot like teenage sex. Everyone talks about it. Nobody really knows how to do it. Everyone thinks everyone else is doing it. So everyone claims they are doing it. The above [...]
A (Very Nerdy) Preview of Total Rewards 2018
As a compensation professional, going to conferences about compensation like the World at Work Total Rewards conference is exciting for me. And as a nerd, I like to try to find ways to analyze [...]
How Salary History Laws (Won’t) Affect You
There is a lot of discussion in the HR community about the impact of new salary history laws (here is a previous list, which you should assume will change). As these laws are now “live” [...]
Uber Drivers Have a 7% Gender Pay Gap
Think about that. In a labor market that is fully mathematical (wages are based on a gender-blind algorithm) where the work is seemingly identical (an Uber ride is an Uber ride), there is still a [...]
Free Money! Using U.S. Tax Reform to Invest in the Workforce
Set aside your politics for a minute. Tax reform in the U.S. is now law, and this is not the setting to debate if it is good or bad. It simply is. So now what? [...]