Category: Blog Posts

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Required Flu Shots?
Flu season is upon us and according to the Centers for Disease control, between 5 and 20% of the population get the flu each year, costing U.S. employers some ten billion dollars each year. W...

Kyle, a Human Resources manager, had been single a few months when his friends encouraged him to meet someone online. Laughing his way through Amy Webb’s TedX talk on how she hacked online dating, he decided to jump in without an algorithm. At th...

The words “office politics” can make you cringe. We’ve all been there. That certain someone (often early in our career) who stabbed us in the back as they were over eager to climb the ladder, happily leaving everyone in their wake. Or...

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Play Nice!
You have two management level employees that are constantly bickering. They would each like to see the other terminated. 
You heard a rumor that these two managers went to blows about a schedulin...

Let’s talk about employment agreements. Hello? Have you fallen asleep already? They may be a little dry and boring, but important, as they are tools that increase the value of your relationships and help your company manage risk.
Do you need them...

If you have between 10 and 200 employees and you offer an employer sponsored health plan for your employees, you probably “early renewed” in the fall of last year.  This “early renewal” was an opportunity for you to delay t...

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Mental Health Issues - Not Easy!
Consider the following situation:  You hired an employee in November. He seemed fine in the interview…just a little nervous. After he was hired, you observed that he ...

So you’ve been wondering about “going green” at your business. Do you want to control costs, recruit, motivate, and retain employees, attract eco-conscious consumers and employees, drive efficiency and process improvements and just do...

Business owners, if you were away from your company for a month, would the company go under? Let’s say you installed a hidden camera while you were away. What would you see? Would they continue with your philosophy and vision for growth in your a...

This is the second article in a two-part series on turnover. With turnover, there is always a positive with a negative. Focusing on the positive and mitigating the negative is our goal.
Communication
We approach each case with compassion and care about...

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No-Fault Attendance Policy
You have a no-fault attendance policy where employees accrue points for absences. If they rack up too many points, no matter the reason, it will lead to disciplinary action up to and i...

This is the first in a two-part series on turnover. There are all types of statistics out there about what turnover costs an organization in terms of quantitative and qualitative.
Real Cost
Numbers I prefer are 59 percent of annual salary for the rank-...