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Quick clicks for your Friday afternoon - 21/1/2009

January 23, 2009

This week's top five HR-related web treats for your Friday afternoon:

5. The return of child labour
4. 'HR-bot' to monitor staff on Facebook
3. Jobs that pay more for working less
2. Unicycle butcher OH hazard
1. Why Google employees quit


5. The return of child labour
An eight-year-old boy has been hired as an IT specialist in Macedonia. Out of the coal mine, into the fire...

4. 'HR-bot' to monitor staff on Facebook
A start-up blog comments on the first version of an 'HRbot', or computer programme that patrols social networking sites to monitor current employees and job applicants.

3. Jobs that pay more for working less
A compiled list of the top 20 jobs in the world where employees work less and earn more. Obviously, there is no sign of HR.

2. Unicycle butcher OH hazard
From the pages of a "How-not-to-run-a-business" manual, this picture should have HR and OH experts cringing. Original advertisement from 2007 can be found here.

1. Why Google employees quit
For several years now, Google has been trumpeted for its approach to employee issues like recruitment, engagement, training, etc. This list of employee feedback (after they left the company) is every HR officer's dream.

For your consideration... "Why Google Employees Quit".


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Posted for your edification by Guru on January 23, 2009 1:30 AM |

Comments (1)

Jason C.:

An HR-Bot can't be that far off! With so many companies using HR outsourcing through a PEO it is only a matter of time until we see outsourcing automated into bot form.

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