New Kids on the Block: No, Not the 80’s Boy Band — the Millennial Generation & Generation Y

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New Kids on the Block: No, Not the 80’s Boy Band — the Millennial Generation & Generation Y

Hewlett Packard recently announced that employees would no longer be working from home and Yahoo announced a ban on working from home back in February. These changes from flexible working options to the traditional model of yesteryear are especially surprising given an article recently published in the October issue of HR Magazine about The New

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Why You Should Be Watching Breaking Bad

I’m going to tell you something you’ve probably been hearing a lot lately, but I’m telling you again in case you haven’t been paying attention. Breaking Bad is the best TV show ever put to print, and if you haven’t started it yet, you should. Very few times in life are you truly missing something

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PeopleTools: Creating an Activity Guide

We’ve written about Activity Guides before. In a nutshell, we think they’re incredibly useful, and not enough people know about them. If you want a very clear example of how to create a simple activity guide, we recommend the one Matthew Haavisto and team whipped up for the PeopleSoft Technology Blog. PeopleTools provides a feature

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NHL Goal of the Year…Already?

I don’t get into sports too much around here, but you have to see this. Here is San Jose Sharks rookie Tomas Hertl scoring a downright incredible goal against the New York Rangers: Two crazy things about this goal: 1. Well, just look at it. To pull off a trick goal like that in live

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PeopleSoft Mobile Time Entry Now Available in FSCM

Howard Shaw gives the scoop on PeopleSoft Apps Strategy: Oracle is pleased to announce the release of PeopleSoft Mobile Time Entry, part of the PeopleSoft Expenses application, which is now generally available in PeopleSoft FSCM 9.1. PeopleSoft Mobile Time Entry provides the ability to enter time sheets quickly and easily for project-based resources on the

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The Upside of…Um, Making People Angry

Tim Ferriss, writing for The New York Observer, talks about why pissing people off is both inevitable and necessary: Doing anything remotely interesting will bring criticism. Attempting to do anything large-scale and interesting will bring armies of detractors and saboteurs. This is fine—if you are willing to take the heat. There are good reasons to

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The PeopleSoft Update Manager

One of the features many don’t know about in PeopleSoft 9.2 is the PeopleSoft Update Manager (PUM). Essentially, this changes the way all maintenance code and new functionality is being delivered. Oracle’s PeopleSoft Technology Blog has a nice rundown on what the PUM is: Oracle and the PeopleSoft team have changed the way all maintenance

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Casual Friday: Sitting Is the New Smoking

We’ve posted a bunch about health and nutrition before, and we got a bit nerdy. Maybe too nerdy (as if there’s such a thing). But today, we’re posting about health again, but we’ve cut out almost all the nerdy. Promise. Today is about why sitting is killing you. Sure, there are tons of articles out

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Tip: Custom Email Templates

Anoop Savio over at The PeopleSoft Blog has a tip that we’re sure many of you have bumped into: how to build a custom email page for messaging. Savio explains: You might have had requirements where you have to build a configurable email page for messaging purpose. People use several ways to accomplish  this requirement.

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