May 20, 2010 - Why would anyone commute to work? Almost throughout the 20th century, that question would have seemed absurd. We commuted to work because work happened in factories and offices, and it was the daily duty of every employee to transport themselves from their homes to those places of work by 8 or 9 a.m.
May 20, 2010 - The Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment (HIRE) Act provides new cost-saving measures for employers that hire and retain new employees.
April 29, 2010 - Where are you working these days? Or, where are your people working? The answer to both is increasingly “at home.” Is this because of the economy or is it an emerging trend?
April 29, 2010 - A do-it-yourselves guide for organizations that want to increase their community involvement
March 25, 2010 - One of the greatest challenges of the 21st century workplace is dealing with social media and employees’ use of it during and after work.
March 18, 2010 - Today’s economy has made business survival, much less business growth, quite challenging. Labor costs continue to represent a large proportion of a business’s operating expense, and employees’ varying needs have made the traditional 9-to-5 schedule a thing of the past. Successful organizations, though, are those who are flexible – developing alternative approaches to work that help them manage their operating costs without adversely affecting growth.
March 18, 2010 - Frequently the terms orientation and assimilation are used synonymously and often referenced as an HR function. Many organizations focus on developing or perfecting orientation programs as a first step in combating employee turnover. While this action allows for initial good feelings and a reduction in the direct stress placed on a new employee, it often doesn’t have the expected impact of decreased turnover.
March 18, 2010 - The majority of employees fully embrace the Web 2.0 world, including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and YouTube. In fact, YouTube receives more than 1 billion views per day, and Facebook and Twitter both experienced triple-digit growth in 2009. If your Human Resources department doesn’t have a strong sense of employee’s social media activities, then you need to start the discussion on appropriate engagement as social media continues to grow explosively.
March 18, 2010 - During challenging economic times, companies often cut back on learning and development programs. But that approach could negatively impact your business. To remain competitive in a down or a thriving economy, companies should consider investing in their most important asset — their people.
March 18, 2010 - Employers usually want to hire the most talented candidate for a position. In the quest to do so, employers sometimes unknowingly commit one of seven common mistakes that can expose their company to potential litigation and/or result in a hiring disaster.
March 18, 2010 - There are certain mistakes that a plaintiff’s lawyer love to discover. Below is a short list of common errors made by employers that are avoidable.
March 18, 2010 - What do you want to be when you grow up? That’s most likely a familiar question for most of us—one that we’ve been asked in our younger days, or one that we are asking children today. As leaders in our organizations, however, perhaps the question we should be asking is “WHO do we want to be, NOW?”
March 18, 2010 - Hiring from within is a strong part of our corporate culture, and it is widely known among our employees that we are keenly interested in advancing their careers. But it used to be the case that when a position opened, Human Resources (HR) managers would have to phone around to various regions across the country to get personal recommendations from other HR managers for potential candidates.