Can you believe that the holidays are weeks behind us?  It’s once again safe to brave the malls to use those gift cards and return those unwanted items that were given to us.

That’s why I received a chuckle and a dose of reality when reading Tim Sackett’s blog on Workforce Management. Tim writes about the “HR gifts” he’d like to return, which include many of the staples, no pun intended, of the corporate world. Many of the practices that have been ingrained in our minds and processes now seem antiquated.