From the ridiculous antics of David Brent in ‘The Office’ to greedy Montgomery Burns in The Simpsons, there are many awful fictional managers on TV. What about in real life? The stats from Kimble’s recent survey on workplace attitudes “The Boss Barometer” don’t do all that much to contradict that picture. Apparently more than two-thirds…
Category: Employer Branding
Some of the world’s biggest companies use The Employer Brand Index to understand, improve and measure their employer brands.
Every company has a brand, but how many of you know about the story behind the brand? For some companies, the story is bigger than the brand and they use that to their advantage. Like the American health care giant CVS Health. Kerry Noone is Director of Health Recruitment Marketing and Advertising at CVS and she…
Seventy-eight percent of professionals have experienced feelings of burnout at some point in their careers, according to new research. The OnePoll study delved into the shifting workplace needs and health concerns of 1,000 employed professionals between the ages of 24 and 40 and found that increasing workloads, an endless barrage of slacks and emails, and…
Most of our clients come to Borderless with a genuine desire to build diverse and diversity-capable leadership teams. That is, after all, our expertise. And at the top of their concern? Women in leadership With women representing more than 50% of the world’s population and a rapidly growing percentage of the most highly educated portion…
EVP, Sports Fans and Technology
Draftkings, is probably best-known for its fantasy sports contests – football or soccer if you’re in the UK, basketball and even tennis are just some of the sports they offer fantasy leagues in. So having fans of your company is probably one of the easiest ways to hire the best talent. Jason Jones is the…
The Dangers of Desktop Dining
Are you one of those employees who eats lunch at your desk each day? If so, why? Is it because you’re too busy to go out? Or do you just want others to think you are? Maybe you’re afraid you won’t be able to stay competitive with those coworkers who use the extra hour to…
If there’s anything you’ve ever wanted to know about EVP and didn’t know where to start – then you’re in luck. This week we are speaking to a veteran in our industry who will be sharing a lot of tips and a couple of pitfalls as well, from his years of running big scale employer…
For most workers with a steady 9-to-5 job or 40-hour workweek, it can be pretty tricky to find the time to inject a healthy or active lifestyle in their daily routine. There are times when you get waist-deep with work that you end up missing a meal, or maybe the long day has worn you…
‘Harvard’ or ‘Oxbridge’ are often mentioned in the same sentence as ambitious global business leaders and the political elite – most relevantly with current US President Donald Trump has earned an economics degree from the University of Pennsylvania and Boris Johnson, Great Britain’s 28th Prime Minister, having attended The University of Oxford. Ivy League schools…