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The company provides employees with a refrigerator to use in the lunch room.  Except for the occasional complaint (e.g. "My leftover meatloaf is missing!") there hasn't been any significant issue - until no...

Mobile Recruitment is the act of finding job candidates actively and passively through the use of mobile career pages and internet recruiting strategies through social platforms. Here’s a shocker – 1 BILLION job searches are done per m...

There are global forces of change that are and will affect businesses and the resulting job market over the next 40 years including: a global balance of power shift from West to East and North to South; resources and practices are protected (not open t...

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Let it snow...
The news reports all predict yet another winter storm. You know from past experience that the roads will be hazardous, people will likely stay home and that, therefore, you won't have a lot of cus...

“I am a people person; therefore I am not a numbers person.” We hear this all the time in the Human Resources (HR) world and encourage overcoming the “fear” of numbers to achieve career growth. The United States Securities and E...

Did we get your attention? The topic of informational technology (IT) security is boring, but so important. Most of the statistics are downright scary:

52 percent of people email documents from work to home via personal email account
66 percent of peo...

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You Have to Give Me the Day Off!
An employee informs you that he has just converted to a new faith. His new faith prohibits him from working on Xday. He tells you that he'll be in need of a religious accommodati...

So, how are things going? Although the common response in the past was “fine,” we more often hear “busy” as a response. Culturally, busy has become a more attractive term than fine. Perhaps the recession taught us that if we wer...

Ten years ago in this market, it was not common for companies to require drug tests and background checks. Today, 95 percent of employers require background checks, partially due to the workplace theft, violence and negligent hiring litigation. There a...

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What Should You Do?
Your best employee, Mary, walks into your office on Monday and announces that she has made the best New Year’s Resolution of all time. Curiosity gets the best of you and you ask, &ldquo...

It’s a new year. Forget the day-to-day for a minute. Take your best guess at what the next two to five years will look like. The Applied Companies considers the experts at ITR Economics when making decisions. For 60 years, ITR has been offer...

When we think about how Santa accomplishes all that he needs to, there is only one true answer: it’s his wife. Somebody has to run the place while he’s gallivanting around the world. Therefore, we decided to have some fun and create a parab...