Twitter Talk - August 24, 2009

I'm thankful I was able to get out with my family yesterday and enjoy our one whole day of summer yesterday!  (We almost didn't recognize the blue sky and sun when it showed up in the morning).  Today, we got hit by a thunderstorm which had me wondering if we were going to leave the house at all!  Guess I should be thankful we have a roof over our heads in order to continually duck this lousy weather.

Anyway, amidst the weather wranglings, there has been a lot of interesting discussion on Twitter during the past week covering everything from enhancing workplace diversity, to how workplace sexual harassment is morphing with the new technologies and even to how those new technologies are impacting employer behaviors.  You'll also see a link to a great video that shows how a person who is blind navigates the internet on his computer.  Happy reading/viewing!

Alberta companies enhancing diversity of their workforces esp in male dominated fields http://chilp.it/?1dec50

Thoughts? Are women penalized in the wkpl if also a mom? http://chilp.it/?06be8e

The 'new' sexual harassment is less in-your-face than in the past but still a big problem. http://chilp.it/?a0fb02

RT @jonhyman: New blog post: Papering a personnel file as evidence of retaliation? http://bit.ly/Ijhgs

Just the beginning...RT @RossRunkel: 7 percent of hiring managers look at applicants' Twitter posts http://tinyurl.com/kkk9jr (@djillpugh)

RT @GlendaWH: Have you ever wondered how a blind person uses a computer? Here's a great video http://bit.ly/uuFC4

 

Comments

[Jared Heinrichs]

Are women penalized in the wkpl if also a mom? - I personally think it's harder to get time off being a dad then it is for woman to get time off for taking kids to the doctor etc... Talk about reverse discrimination...

[Donna Seale]

Hi Jared, thanks for writing in with your comment about working dads. I certainly think that parents can face certain stigmas in the workplace, whether they happen to be male or female. Many of those stigmas are based upon the way our society has been structured in the past -- women to remain home to care for children and men to 'bring home the bacon.' Now that those old societal norms are often being stood on their head as the roles of men and women in the home and workplace change, men and women can sometimes encounter somewhat of a backlash to their desire to live lives that don't jive with the norms. Seems as though that is what you are describing. Forward-thinking employers will cast those old norms aside and look at and respond to the needs of their particular employees. What's that old saying? Happy employees are productive employees!

Thanks again for responding to my post!