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When Company Culture Rewards Fraud
The story of how Wells Fargo’s employees wound up selling bank accounts to homeless people, dead people, fake clients and friends and relatives who had no interest in opening accounts sounds crazy—like some Dickens novel where the evil overlord is forcing the starving...
Getting Real About Employee Handbooks
I’ve noticed that some company managers and owners treat my constant admonitions to get an employee handbook the way kids respond when you tell them to wear their galoshes. They roll their eyes. They let out a soft “gah....” sound. Or sometimes they reassuringly...
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Change is Coming; Can You Handle It?
My first plan for this blog was to list the top five most impactful HR events of 2013. But as I began to think about what those would be—Marissa Mayer’s massive change to Yahoo’s culture, the constantly changing landscape of Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), a new...
Paid Time Off Policies Aren’t One Size Fits All
So, Christmas is coming, which gets me thinking about A Christmas Carol, and poor Bob Cratchit and paid time off...if you follow. Christmas falls on Wednesday this year, and depending on your industry, say professional services or B2B, do you give employees Thursday...
HR Executives Drive Profits…Really
So, people don’t generally say it to my face, but I know how a lot of people feel about HR. Like we’re all coming in with our little clipboards, enforcing rules no one ever heard of, creating work for ourselves by having complex recruiting rituals, insisting on...
You Don’t Have To Come to the Holiday Party. I Repeat….
It’s holiday party time! Time to throw up some sparkly lights, eat a bunch of food you don’t normally allow yourself, spend time chilling with people you normally have to focus with and open a bottle of....or not.... The whole holiday work party issue is a giant...
Setting Managers Up For Success
Managers are in a really tough spot these days. Most of us have seen the statistics that say employees don’t leave companies, they leave managers. Managers are being viewed as the employee engagement lynchpin. They’re expected to not only get the job done, but...
Finally Good Healthcare News! FSA Rollover up to $500
Flexible spending accounts were a miracle when they were introduced in the 1970s. And they just got a whole lot better. Flexible spending accounts tackled inflation and rising medical costs by letting employees set aside pre-tax dollars to cover some medical and...
FMLA Doesn’t Have to Mean FML for Employers
A lot of my clients, who really don’t have time or knowledge to plow through the legalese of the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA), make huge assumptions. Like, they have to let every employee take three months off, just because they asked. And they think the fact that...
Stop Hating on Millennials, Dude
So, recently a client was complaining to me about his Millennial generation employee who was completely pumped about taking Friday off to spend three days at ACL. It just bugged the employer that this generation didn't get it. “He’s just a lot more excited about ACL...
This Is Why You Need an Employee Assistance Program
In the past week I have had the flu, lost my smartphone (which is worse according to most people) and dealt with a dead car battery – doesn't it always come in threes? It’s been a stressful time period and I have not been the most patient of people (my...
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