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Confessions you wish you could make to your team but can't. There’s a lot you don’t know about your employees, especially the things your employees will never tell you .

It's that time of year again when many people are facing open enrollment with their employer's healthcare plans. Personal finance expert Carmen Wong Ulrich has tips and strategies to get the most bang for your buck.

A GameStop employee posts a photo of himself planking, and gets himself and the co-worker who took the picture, fired. GameStop's business is entertainment, but the company made it clear that those on the clock shouldn't be partaking in the fun and games. The Grapevine, Texas-based company fired an employee who went planking on the job, as well as the fellow employee who snapped the photo of him doing so between two in-store kiosks.

An Iowa convenience store employee took no-longer-saleable soup from the dumpster to feed to her dog--and was fired. The Iowa Court of Appeals upheld a decision to deny unemployment benefits to a convenience store employee who was fired for taking soup from the dumpster. The company, an Iowa-based chain of franchises called Casey's General Stores, has a policy that employees cannot remove any company property from the stores without paying for it—including out-of-date, no-longer-saleable items such as doughnuts and soup

Brandon Labman and Tom Moore's staffing company, ROCS, thrives in its niche market, staffing entry-level jobs. Here's how ROCS says no to expansion but yes to growth

More small businesses are choosing to pay out-of-pocket for employee health claims, rather than a fixed monthly premium to an insurance carrier. Here are the pros and cons. As insurance premiums skyrocket and uncertainty surrounds the 2010 health care reform bill, small and mid-sized companies are increasingly looking to contain a spiraling employee health bill

By increasing the volume of "spray-and-pray" candidates, is LinkedIn really helping the hiring process?

Workers get hurt all the time, both on the job and off. In 2009, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported 1,238,490 injury or illness cases in the United States requiring days away from work to recuperate.