HR’s Role in a Sluggish Economy
Is the United States experiencing a recession? It depends who you ask. Recession is generally understood as two consecutive quarters of negative gross domestic product (GDP) – in which case [...]
Should Companies Even Make Disciplinary Exceptions?
We recently heard of a scenario where a trusted, high-performing, longtime employee of a medium-sized business was caught violating a company policy – a policy that two past employees had [...]
Talking Business with Tina Hamilton: The main driver of employee turnover? Toxic workplaces
More than 24 million Americans left their jobs between April and September of 2021 according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics ― an all-time record that no employer felt [...]
It Pays to be Transparent about Salaries
For decades, one of the biggest workplace taboos has been talking about your pay with your co-workers. It’s no surprise: the subject of money often falls right behind politics and [...]
Can We Require Employees to Do Extra Work Outside of Scheduled Hours?
Can you? We’ll break it down momentarily. Should you? That’s another question entirely. Let’s start with the more objective of the two: The question of whether you can demand extra [...]
Some creative ways to celebrate the holidays in the workplace this season (Morning Call Column by Tina Hamilton)
After a year off from celebrating holiday festivities because of COVID-19, many workplaces are figuring out how to celebrate the season safely with the pandemic still working its way through [...]
The Vaccine-or-Test Mandate: What’s Your Plan?
An executive order handed down by the White House is about to impact companies with 100 employees or more – about two-thirds of the country’s total workforce. An effort to boost vaccine rates and save lives, it requires employees to do one of the following: Show [...]
Strong HR Does These 3 Things. Does Yours?
Studies consistently show a positive correlation between strong HR and strong business outcomes. So what characterizes strong HR? Great question. Strong HR is HR that’s not an afterthought or mere [...]
Hiring Challenges (Morning Call Column by Tina Hamilton)
When people learn that I’m in the HR outsourcing business and that our team provides hiring management services, I often get asked, “Has it been difficult for your clients to [...]
What is HR, Really? What It Does and Why It Matters.
Forbes recently shed light on the disconnect between perceptions of HR and HR in practice. Put simply, the administration and risk management duties HR is known for (and often joked [...]