Should You Hire a Team?
It takes a team to grow a business, and yet team building is not typically considered when recruiting and hiring—except in a cursory way.
Category: HR Management & Compliance
There are dozens of details to take care of in the day-to-day operation of your department and your company. We give you case studies, news updates, best practices and training tips that keep your organization fully in compliance with ever-changing employment law, and you fully aware of emerging HR trends.
About Those Holiday Bonuses
There’s good news and bad news … which do you want first?
Substitute Custodian Vying for Clean Sweep on Harassment, Retaliation Claims
A substitute school custodian said she was pressured to have sex with a foreman in exchange for more hours and then retaliated against for refusing his advances and lodging a sexual harassment complaint. This case demonstrates the importance of training employees and supervisors on sexual harassment prevention and on protocols for reporting harassment.
What Are Your Company’s Core Values?
Today we are joined by Derek Irvine, the VP of Client Strategy and Consulting at Globoforce, who is answering questions about a recent research report that they released entitled Bringing More Humanity to Recognition, Performance and Life at Work. Let’s jump right in.
Holiday Infographic: Where Are the Happiest (and Most Stressed) Workers?
According to a new survey by Accountemps, a slight majority of office professionals—51%—report they are more cheerful during the holiday season. However, 35% report that they are more stressed during this time. Accountemps sought to identify which cities had employees who reported to be happiest during the holidays—and which identified themselves as the most stressed […]
Why Workplace Harassment Persists—And What Employers Can Do About It
Complaints of sexual harassment and sexual misconduct have dominated the news recently with allegations ranging from sexual threats, to groping, to sexual assault. While the allegations have made the news because they involve people in the entertainment industry and politics, it’s readily apparent from the thousands of stories shared using #MeToo that sexual violence and […]
How Year-Round Development Is Replacing the Formal Review
The idea of replacing the formal employee review with a 2.0 version has been a growing consensus in HR over the past few years. While most companies still have an employee review process, it’s true that traditional annual reviews have long been on life support.
Employees Who Travel for Work Reveal Challenges, Motivators
A new survey has found that 62% of American workers have traveled to another state for work in the past 12 months, with 38% having spent 30 days or more in another state for work-related travel during the same time frame. The TSheets survey sought to find out what motivates these mobile workers, as well […]
#MeToo Hits the Workplace
The accusations of sexual harassment and assault against Harvey Weinstein and others have unleashed a cascade of reports of similar conduct across a wide range of industries. As the #MeToo campaign has caught fire on social media, women and men of seemingly all ages, all professions, and all levels have come forward to share their […]
Only 35% of Hiring Managers Expect to Increase Investment in D&I Programs in 2018
Glassdoor has released new data revealing greater resources are expected to be devoted towards improving a lack of diversity over the coming year. One in three (35%) hiring decision makers expect to increase investment in diversity and inclusion (D&I) efforts and only 3% expect it to decrease; the remainder are continuing to invest at the […]