Jorg Gray recently announced its partnership with premier MotoGP racer, Ben Spies, Winner of the 2011 Dutch TT race in Assen and the only American since 2006 to secure a MotoGP win internationally. The Texas-based talent, known for winning at every level of racing, joins the Jorg Gray team just in time for the start of the 2012 racing season, which kicks off with the Commercial Bank Grand Prix on April 8th in Qatar.

At a time when employees are putting in more hours in the office, effectively managing inter-office relationships can not only prevent turnover due to discomfort, but it can also boost collaboration.

“Best practices,” as a term, should speak for itself. These rules, procedures and guidelines for how things get done have, obviously, the goal of streamlining and improving work. Otherwise they wouldn’t be best, right?

Are HR pros heartless when it comes to office romances? One leadership consultant offers reasons to embrace the concept, which could be a tough sell. Something to consider this Valentine’s Day.

Over the last year, you may have noticed that a once-niche trend not only crept into the mainstream, but is starting to really make a big splash. Gamification has become one of the hottest buzz words in the industry and is probably in the process of taking over a website or user experience near you.

The talk this week was which Super Bowl ads were the funniest and which flopped. Multimillion-dollar TV spots are certainly the most familiar and talked about form of Super Bowl advertising, but the sponsorship story doesn’t end there.

Often the terms “social games” and “gamification” are used interchangeably, but in actuality they’re very different animals. While it’s true that gamification borrows its game mechanics from social gaming, there are many real-world situations where it makes more sense to apply gamification instead of building an entire game. First, let’s take a look at a definition of each concept:

We’ve all heard it a million times: communication is the key to healthy relationships. Yet when it comes to the workplace, companies aren’t talking. While a 2011 survey by CareerBuilder.com indicates that 40% of workers will date a colleague, less than 15% of organizations provide a written policy around office romance. That’s leaving a lot up to chance.

Free storage in the cloud might sound too good to be true. But startup Symform has built a new kind of cloud storage by enlisting customers to form a storage network made out of their surplus, on-premises storage capacity.

The IPOs of Zynga and LinkedIn have created roughly $16.7 billion in market value. Assuming that about 20% of the equity went to rank-and-file employees as stock options, the amount of instant wealth could be more than $3.3 billion.