Thursday May 9, 2024

Survey: How 200 managers approach one-on-one meetings

One-on-one meeting agenda app, Soapbox, recently surveyed over 200 managers to learn how they conduct one-on-one meetings with their teams.  Turns out, regardless of seniority, role or department, there were many common threads around how these managers approached one-on-one meetings. Here’s a brief breakdown of some of the key findings: Managers hold weekly one-on-ones About […]

Google HR chief to step down as employee dissatisfaction mounts

Google’s head of human resources, Eileen Naughton, will step down later this year amid rising tensions between the company’s top executives and rank and file employees. The executive departure follows many months of highly public people issues at the company, including claims of pregnancy discrimination and an allegation of sexual misconduct by a senior executive […]

DOL announces penalty increases for 2020

Attention, employers: It just got more expensive to violate the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA) and the Employee Polygraph Protection Act (EPPA). Cost of noncompliance goes up Here are the DOL’s new maximum penalties for violating the: FLSA: $2,050 for willful or repeated […]

Become an “Employer of the Future” — Five tips for recruiting and retaining top talent

The workforce is constantly evolving and companies across all industries are adapting to ever-changing employee desires. Smart employers are striving to create a positive employee experience. That requires constantly refining how they approach human resources to ensure that they can continue to recruit and retain top talent. From flexibility and competitive compensation to professional development […]

Great training is key to creating a positive employee experience

You’d love to have employees working for you who are the type that always want to learn new things and grow, right? Right. Engaged employees spend more of their time working to improve their performance through training and development. They are the type of workers every company wants, and they expect their employers to create […]

NJ court rules workers’ comp must pay for prescription CBD

A New Jersey state court of appeals ruled in January that an employer is obligated to pay for medical marijuana when the prescription is treating a job-related injury. The ruling in Hager v. M&K Construction is the first time a NJ court required an employer to compensate a worker for legal weed used to treat […]

A 7-point time tracking checklist for managers and HR leaders

In any business, time is the most important resource. Time equals money and wasted time equals wasted money. If you’ve seen Avengers Endgame, there’s one line in the movie that pretty much sums this up: No amount of money ever bought a second of time. An organization where employees don’t track how they’re spending their […]

The human touch: How great technology helps teams maximize performance

As technology leaders, we have the opportunity and responsibility to ensure that our teams – whether regional or globally based – conduct work with the efficiency and maximize performance, using software and hardware solutions to deliver the best products and services to our clients and customers. Our mission as technology experts is to review existing […]

Managing Emotions in The Workplace

We deal with emotions in every interaction, every single day. From work to home to social events, life, and family, our emotions range the gamut. So, when expectations are high and, often, resources are low, managing emotions in the workplace can seem like the norm rather than the exception. If you are in a position […]