BLR CEO Bob Brady's column BlackBerry® at the Beach covered excess business use of e-mail off the job. Today: Excess personal use on the job.

Most companies consider the end-of-year performance appraisal the crucial one. But BLR's CEO advances a different idea.

When made aware of bullying, employers worsen the problem or do nothing. What's your policy?

Litigation is the ultimate test of the adequacy of an employer’s recordkeeping practices, says attorney Allen Kato of the San Francisco office of Fenwick and West LLP. Of course, the courtroom isn’t the best place to find out that records are...

Yesterday’s Advisor covered calculating the cost of incivility on mental wellness (it’s high) and 6 tips for improving it. Today, we continue with more tips, and we take a look at a broader wellness program.

Workplace incivility is an often overlooked, expensive, yet treatable malady, says the new book, The Cost of Bad Behavior. Authors Christine Pearson and Christine Porath show how to calculate the cost and what to do about eliminating the undesirable...

The best way to deal with difficult employees is to avoid hiring them, advises attorney Dan Forman. BLR® founder and CEO Bob Brady says that while Forman is half-joking, he makes the serious point that difficult employees usually start out that way....

Yesterday's Advisor featured the EEOC's advice for avoiding ADA problems when preparing for swine flu. Today, we'll get the agency’s advice about work practices, and an introduction to a special program for smaller HR departments.