Downtown Detroit is home to countless historic buildings. But did you know that many of these magnificent edifices were also the birthplace for some significant corporate events? Here are just four of them.

Effective February 1, 2015, all employees will be required to use their own separate entrance music when coming into a room. Here are some staffers testing different songs and entrances. Mandatory exit music will become effective in 2016.

When the boss is hammering you with questions, there are exactly five things you can say to get off the hotseat. Watch as these three hotseat veterans deftly work in all five - and in under 90 seconds, real time!

The North Pole announced Friday that Federal Express will take over Christmas Eve gift delivery starting in 2017. “We understand about Santa Claus, the tradition and all that,” says North Pole spokesperson Caitlyn Gingley, “But we also owe our shareholders a solid return on their investments.”  North Pole stock shares...

In 2019, when Masters Customization set out to hire a new employee, one human resources staffer could make it happen in less than an hour. As of mid 2024, it was taking an average of 232 hours for every new hire, with 17 people assigned to filling each position. Finding...

reasons most often cited is that the right hand doesn’t know what the left is doing. That was certainly the case at Comstock Dependables of Muncie, Indiana, which saw profits decline by 40 percent over two years. To turn things around, on July 1 Comstock’s right hand started receiving daily...

To ensure a healthy work/life balance, all employees are required to complete a 14-page report each week, documenting the points they’ve earned for performing “life activities.”

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Norman Williston, a file clerk at Palmeri Marketing in Columbus Ohio, asks the same question every time he passes someone in the hallway: “Working hard…or hardly working?” He’s been asking it ever since he was hired in 2021 – numerous times every day to dozens of the company’s 350...

Q.  I'm an Accounts Receivable clerk, writing this from under my desk, where I have been for three days. I don’t know why I went under here. I think I just wanted to see what it felt like – away from Charlene Larrington demanding that I have the multiple...

Sears/Wills, the international travel aggregator, achieved a 1598 percent increase in its employee satisfaction score this year by making one simple change to its annual anonymous attitude survey: Employees are now required to provide their signatures when submitting. “Everything is still anonymous,” says Myrna Pillings, the company’s    VP of...

After spending two years and 82,000 meeting hours trying to develop a new formulation platform, Cleveland techno-aggregator Quality 1.1 found itself hopelessly mired between two strategies:  Advancing pre-productive platforms or reassembling multi-factored transitions. So, as often happens with companies in such situations, top executives recommended going back to the drawing...