6 posts and columns on HR

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Management Quality Assurance

in Voices on October 5, 2011 at 1:45 pm PT

We can all agree that people are paramount, yet nobody in tech seems to be on the same page with what the people organization — Human Resources — should look like.

Exclusive: Skype Employees Were Briefed in Plain English — The Internal Equity Incentive Plan Deck

in News on June 28, 2011 at 1:14 pm PT

What did Skype employees know and when did they know it? A lot, if you’re reading this “Equity Incentive Plan” deck, which clearly outlines what happens to “good leaver” and bad leaver” execs.
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Viral Video: Jeff Zucker Gets Zuckered

in News on October 1, 2010 at 4:40 am PT

Yahoo is not the only HR excitement these days! Here is a very funny spoof of the firing of NBC Universal CEO Jeff Zucker last week by new owners Comcast, which was on the “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” late-night television show. BoomTown interviewed the media mogul at the seventh D: All Things Digital conference in 2009, which is also below. Guess which one I like better.
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Microsoft: Want to Learn About Our Secret Tablet? Read Engadget.

in Media on March 23, 2010 at 11:58 am PT

Want to get the latest news on “Courier,” Microsoft’s rumored-but-not-confirmed answer to Apple’s iPad? Microsoft doesn’t want to talk about it. But Redmond does have a suggestion for you: Read the gadget blogs.

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"Up in the Air" Dragged Back Down to Earth by Start-Up

in News on January 14, 2010 at 12:15 pm PT

We skim hundreds of press releases that include tie-ins to current events and pop culture, entries with headlines like “Aviation Expert Available To Discuss Flight 27 Fire” and “What Does Avatar Mean For Cloud Computing?” (These are fictional but plausible examples.) Yesterday’s effort from venture-backed job search and outplacement company RiseSmart Inc. is way better than most, partly because of its intelligent critique of “Up In The Air.”

RealNetworks’s Internal Layoff Memo

in News on November 5, 2009 at 6:02 pm PT

Earlier today, Kara Swisher reported in BoomTown that RealNetworks would sack four percent of its workforce–70 employees out of its 1,700-person staff. After the jump, the official internal memo from RealNetworks Founder, Chairman and CEO Rob Glaser, breaking the bad news.
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