The department that turned firing into a growth opportunity.
Officially assigned or appointed to a specific role, duty, or responsibility—basically getting picked first, but sometimes you don't want to be picked.
A state of dissatisfaction that drives change; the opposite of complacency. When people are discontented, they're motivated to demand better conditions, though management usually wishes they'd just keep quiet.
A corporate initiative to improve workplace representation while maintaining that the hiring pool was 'just not diverse enough.'
The strategic effort to create workplaces that welcome and support people from different backgrounds. Easy to talk about; genuinely difficult to implement without tokenism.
The legal obligation employers have to maintain a safe workplace and protect employees from foreseeable harm, often honored more in breach than in observance.
A tax-advantaged benefit allowing employees to set aside pre-tax money for childcare or eldercare costs, saving approximately 30% in taxes but requiring careful usage-or-lose-it planning.
Compensation arrangements where employees forgo current earnings in exchange for higher payments in the future, often including stock options, RSUs, or non-qualified deferred compensation plans. It's basically a promise: 'we'll pay you later... probably.'
Work beyond the minimum required, performed voluntarily. The metric companies use to measure if you actually care.
A group of employees organized around a specific function, united only by their mutual resentment of other departments.