E-commerce marketplace eBay has fostered an entrepreneurial corporate culture that in turn has spawned a new generation of startups run by women. "The nature of having a marketplace [at eBay] was that it fostered real collaboration between employees," said Kristina Klausen, who left eBay after more than a decade to start language-learning platform PandaTree.

Male recruiters admit a candidate's looks and attire influence hiring decisions, while female recruiters say they care more about education and references, according to a Jobvite report. The report also lists deal breakers, with 86% of recruiters citing rudeness to a receptionist or support staff, 71% citing phone use during an interview and 52% citing bad hygiene.

Companies need to improve their approach to employee wellness to increase engagement and happiness, Limeade's Laura Hamill told the National Alliance of Healthcare Purchaser Coalitions conference. Wellness programs should be both comprehensive and personalized, and companies should seek to change their corporate culture instead of relying on employee incentives, Hamill said.

About 30 million of the 123 million workers in the US labor force don't have bachelor's degrees but are in "good-paying" jobs, according to a report from researchers at Georgetown University. In California, researchers found most of these jobs are in retail, manufacturing, health services, real estate, construction and financial services.

Civility is a norm, not a law, so workplaces can lose their sense of appropriate behavior if leaders don't set the right example, writes Jennifer V. Miller. "Research shows that when a group of people witness a positive act of kindness, everyone's mood is improved, thereby making them more likely to pass along another act of kindness," she writes.