Some employee behavior and performance violations necessitate immediate termination. However, a growing number of companies are shirking automatic firing in favor of more constructive responses whenever promising and fitting. In [...]
A friend of mine, Brad, owns a gas station and convenience store chain in the Lehigh Valley. I stopped at one of his stores recently and stood behind two customers [...]
In a recent blog, we shared our belief that offering employees glimpses of company financials can increase their trust – especially in financial climates like today’s, when worry about job security [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
To pay or not to pay interns? It’s a common question among businesses who lean on us for HR – and one we hear most often in spring and summer, when [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
