Tag Archives: benefits

What Should An Employee’s First Day Look Like?

You’ve sifted through resumes, you’ve sat through countless rounds of interviews, you’ve extended an offer, and you’ve lined up a start date. But now what? You want your new employee to have a fantastic first day – you want them to feel welcomed, start building relationships with their teammates, get a taste for what their […]

PEO Problem Solvers: Graduating Interns to New Hires

Internships are a great way to find talent for your company. More than 67 percent of interns were given a job offer stemming from their internship at a company, and a whopping three-quarters of those given the offer ultimately accepted. With these statistics in mind, you know that there is a lot of potential to […]

How to Develop an Enriching Intern Program

Developing an internship program is a labor of love in and of itself but developing a program that is enriching for both the interns and the rest of your business is a whole other undertaking. The good news is that many of the facets that go into making an internship program successful align with what […]

How to Focus on Mental Health for Better Employee Benefits

Mental health is an expensive issue for business owners. Depression, the leading cause of disability worldwide, costs the U.S. economy $210.5 billion per year in absenteeism, reduced productivity and medical costs, affecting more than 16 million Americans, according to the American Psychiatric Association. Lost productivity accounts for $44 billion of the $210.5 billion. May is […]

4 Ways to Ease Your HR Burden

Running your own business is not easy and more often than not you’ll feel like you’re being pulled in all kinds of directions and asked to wear more hats than you ever dreamed of. There is a solution – outsourcing employee benefit management services to a Professional Employer Organization (PEO) that can help with the less […]

How to Get Your Employees to Stay

One of the biggest goals of any small business owner is to hire talented, motivated employees and, perhaps even more importantly, keep them on board as the business grows. So, whether it’s one employee leaving – or it feels like a revolving door of employees these days – there are some strategies that can help […]

Top HR Checklist for 2019

If you’ve made the promise that 2019 is the year that you’re FINALLY going to get organized, this is the checklist for you. It includes dates that you as a business owner should have on your calendar in order to stay on top of various HR-related tasks and deadlines even when you work with a […]

How to Sell Talent Retention as Key Component of Business Success

As a human resource professional, you dedicate so much of your time finding the perfect person for a position. Once you hire them, how much time are you dedicating to keeping them in their role or growing them within the company? Losing employees is costly to any business. The general study response is to look […]

How to Deal with Employee Debt, Financial Education

Debt. It’s a four-letter word no one likes. American households carried $13.3 trillion in debt at the end of June 2018, according to Federal Reserve records. That’s a lot of money owed in mortgages, student loans and credit cards, just to name a few sources of debt. Chances are your employees owe some it and […]

Enrollment Time: Tips for the Other Most Wonderful Time of the Year

The holidays and New Year are fast approaching, but there’s another big event we have to tackle first: Open enrollment season. While pretty much everyone would agree that it’s decidedly less fun, it is none-the-less necessary and can present a significant burden to the small business owner. Luckily, Abel HR’s network of human resource professionals […]

How to Decide If a PEO Is Right for Your Business

Once you’ve made the decision to outsource some of your human resources responsibility to an outside vendor, the next big decision is selecting the best vendor to meet your needs. The reality is that there isn’t a one-size-fits-all solution for every business. Instead, you must evaluate each Professional Employer Organization for not only its quality as […]

Addiction in Employees: How to Recognize the Signs

Drug use in the US is reaching prolific levels. Estimates from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health suggest that a staggering 21.5 million Americans battled a substance use disorder at an estimated cost of $740 billion annually in crime, lost work productivity and health care in 2014. Drug abusers are no longer the […]