With the country experiencing the worst job market in 75 years, our Talent Management columnist suggests college graduates consider some unorthodox options, including delaying graduation, seeking employment abroad or "doing almost anything other than working."

Social and mobile technologies are enabling employers to take their wellness efforts to the next level.

The Working Families Flexibility Act of 2013 passed the House of Representatives recently and now heads to the Senate. While its implementation wouldn't be without challenges, the bill has merit because it gives private-sector employers the long-overdue chance to provide workers with more flexible options.

There are several practical things HR leaders can do to help employees reflect on life's death and dying phases -- both their own and the lives of those they love.

No one reading this needs to be told recruiting has been the greatest source of innovation in HR technology for almost two decades. Now "the newspaper of record," which still means something to me, at least, has published two long articles on successive Sundays catching the world up on the new technologies being applied to that wildly inefficient process.

We have an employee who is a chronic prescription drug abuser. He has not been performing at work but every time we try to terminate him for cause, he immediately enters a drug rehabilitation program in order to avoid termination under the ADA, claiming that he has a disability. Does the ADA require that we keep this under-performing employee on our payroll just because he is enrolled in a drug rehabilitation program?