IBM violated age-discrimination laws by cutting more than 20,000 US employees over age 40 in the past five years and replacing many of them with younger, less experienced workers, a ProPublica review found. The review -- which included confidential planning documents -- revealed a strategy aimed at forcing older workers into lower-paid positions and preventing high performers from being rehired for other positions in the company. ProPublica (3/22)
Why Warmth Is Critical to Your Career If people think you have low interpersonal warmth, "you have something like a 1-in-2000 chance to make the top quartile of effectiveness as a leader," according to Kellogg School of Management Professor Loran Nordgren. Read more.
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Recruiting & Retention
How HR can hire and develop people with autism HR can help place and support employees with autism by designing an unconventional interview process and showing supervisors how to accommodate them, writes Susanne Bruyere, director of the Yang-Tan Institute on Employment and Disability at Cornell University. "Communication about the Autism at Work program and its role as a part of the strategic business imperative should be evident in both external and internal company messaging," she writes. HR People + Strategy Blog (3/20)
Starbucks has pledged to achieve 100% parity in male and female employees' pay in locations around the world. "It is important, as a company of our scale, to help bring more attention to this critical issue," says Lucy Helm, the company's chief partner officer. Bloomberg (free registration) (3/21)
The HR Leader
How "opening up" can help minorities' career advancement Sharing details about their personal lives can help people who are in the minority at their workplaces -- including racial minorities, women and people with political views different from the majority -- advance their careers. Connecting like this helps break down barriers and fosters deep relationships that can boost career trajectory, researchers say. Harvard Business Review (tiered subscription model) (3/2018)
Workplace Chatter
Want more football? A new league is on the way The professional league Alliance of American Football will launch next year as a February to April league, with officials saying it's not intended as a direct competitor to the NFL. Vince McMahon has separately announced plans to bring back the XFL in 2020. CNNMoney (3/20),USA Today (3/21)
