Journal

Notes from the corridor, not from a keynote.

Technician at a manufacturing workstation

What Taiwan manufacturers get wrong about retention

Exit interviews collect stories. Grade design decides whether a technician who can read English drawings has a next step that is not a fake coordinator title.

Continue
Open notebook beside a laptop during a review

Performance reviews people will actually complete

Forty-minute forms produce fiction. Three questions and a load ranking produce arguments you can use.

Continue
Handshake across a wooden table in an office

When to hire an HR consultant versus an in-house lead

Retainers are not cheaper HR managers. They are useful when the organisation cannot yet describe the seat it wants to hire.

Continue
Open office floor with people at workstations

Labour standards and the middle manager

The Act is not a poster. The person who decides a late stay is usually a supervisor with a production number, not the handbook author.

Continue
Laptop showing charts on a dark desk

The quiet cost of unclear job architecture

Finance sees overtime. Recruiting sees ghost requisitions. The missing diagram is usually sitting in someone’s English title.

Continue