Great events and not so great events in the workplace and for Human Resources, managers, and employees happened from 2000-2009, the first decade of the century. When you look back at this decade, what will you remember as the best and worst happenings and events, your favorite and least favorite happenings and events of the decade for you and your workplace? Help me identify the best and worst of the decade for workplaces, Human Resources, employees, and managers.
Here are a few questions to ponder: Did Federal or state employment laws pass that hindered you or helped you? Did your company change direction? Did you change direction? Did your company adopt a new approach to employee relations? How about a new recognition system? Did a book change the way you view the world? Did a state, national, or international event change your work world?
Thanks for your responses; I hope to turn these into an end of decade piece that all of us will find useful.
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For me, and this did not happen to me personally, the worst event in a workplace was the terrorist hijackings on 9/11. So many places were affected. So many new policies arose from this tragedy. Airlines, insurance companies, fire, police and emergency personnel, even how buidlings are designed and constructed now. This list is great. It has affected just about every company and workplace in this country and how many of us operate on the job now. Companies that did not have emergency plans in place now do so. It was essentially the catalyst for what we do, how we are paid, even how we eat this very day. It is mind boggling the ripple affect this event caused our nation and our world.
There have been 4189 confirmed American casualties in Iraq. This is greater than the casualties on 9/11. Additionally, a civilian death count of 103,160.