Recession Fatigue - the new Workplace Fad

Now that Swine Flu isn't so exciting anymore for the unscrupulous media and business hysterics, we need to move onto the NEXT THING (unless you're that poor kid (life=ruined)).

Recession Fatigue has my vote. You know it's real when Forbes says it is.

Found a funnier posts about this topic from Well Heeled, with a Mission. I also cringe when I hear "in this economy" - same reaction that I used to get to hearing "sea change" during the late 90's.

I have fad fatigue. That's a real thing too, but there is seemingly no cure.

SHRM Article on Immigrant Visas - KBACE Interviewed

Earlier this year, a staff reporter from SHRM interviewed me, my VP of HR and several KBACE employees who are on H1-B visas. It was an interesting experience, and I think we finally got the proper message across - that hiring using immigrant visas is a necessary part of working in the technology industry, not a necessary evil as many would portray it but just a part of doing business. I think the quote attributed to our VP is actually something I said, as I kept repeating this message.

One thing that was part of the employee interviews but not a theme of her article is the extreme level of uncertainty that employees live under while in the green card process. I can't imagine living in limbo and constant fear that you will be required to return to your home country, if you lose your job or your applications are not approved.

The SHRM article can be viewed here: http://moss07.shrm.org/Publications/hrmagazine/EditorialContent/Pages/0609zeidner.aspx

So you have employees in every state

At my current company, we have employees in almost every state, working from their homes and traveling to client sites 4 days per week. We don't have an internal corporate counsel, so to keep on top of all the state regulations without paying extreme hourly fees to our employment attorney,

I've found these lists of laws by state to be very useful:

• Who is a dependent for Health Insurance? National Conference of State Legislators
• When do you need to provide Final Pay to terminating employees? Nolo
• Which states allow vacation to be forfeited (use-it-or-lose-it) at year end? Employment Law Handbook