Tag Archives: workplace

How to Get to the Root of Employee Conflict

You’ve heard rumors of a rift in the office, and now one of the parties in question has set up a time to come sit down and hash it out. You agree to the appointment but then aren’t sure what to do next. How do you handle these conversations? Should the other person be present? […]

Should You Leave the Past in the Past?

So, you’ve found the perfect employee. They are qualified, smart, motivated, and charm your socks off in the interview. However, when you go to run their background, it comes back with a giant red flag: Your dream candidate has a storied past. Now what? The first thing to know is that it is getting increasingly […]

Mom to the Rescue…But Who Rescues Mom in the Workplace?

Bringing a new baby into the world is always an exciting time. What isn’t always considered, however, is how stressful this time can be for moms returning to work after welcoming a new little one. It can be overwhelming for employees and human resources to make the transition back to work. The employer needs the […]

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 […]

Generate Gen-Z Results: Mentor from Good to Great

A whole new generation of workers is just now entering the workforce, and the reviews to-date have been far from flattering. Known as Generation Z – or the iGeneration – this generation is more attached to their cellphones than they are a political cause, and they’ve already been lauded as the laziest generation to date. […]

Are The 20-Somethings Really That Lazy?

Now that you’ve worked out all the tips and tricks for getting the most out of the Millennial generation – who are classified as those born between 1981 and 1996 – while engaging and retaining them, we have some bad news: A whole brand new generation is just now entering into the workforce and they’re bringing […]

How Lazy Timekeeping Weakens the Bottom Line

As a small business owner, are you a real stickler for timekeeping accuracy or a little lax on the process, especially for your full-time exempt employees? If you are lazy about enforcing timekeeping, you’re opening yourself up to financial hardship and a huge headache with a whole lot of hard work to get yourself out […]

Six Myths about Disabled Workers that Prevent Business Growth

Disabilities come in all different forms, from neurodiversity to mobility issues to vision and hearing challenges to mental health, even allergies. There are nearly 40 million Americans, or almost 13 percent of the American population, with a disability in 2015. This is a large pool of workers, especially in a tight labor market. Disabled people […]

Why Evidence-Based Decision Making Will Grow Your Company

A business owner wouldn’t make a decision without looking at the data behind it—what do the sales numbers look like? How much revenue do we need to make in order to offset the decision I’m about to make? Does it fit into the forecast? When folks discuss the role of HR, the first phrase to […]

Look In From The Outside. What Do Prospective Hires See?

If you’ve been in the HR game for a while, you know that human resources folks love nothing more than a new buzz word. The latest one? “New joiner experience.” This term basically captures everything that your employee faces when they come on board with your company. From the very first interview to making their […]

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 […]

Do You Know Your Prospective Employees’ Social Score?

Companies are reviewing their prospective hires’ social media presence more than ever before bringing them on board. Social media activity can give business owners and those involved in the hiring process big clues as to who the person is they are looking at. But now, companies are turning to actual social scores to determine the […]