by Caroline | Aug 13, 2014 | Company Culture, Hiring, HRCompliance, Management, People Evaluation, teamwork, Training
Anyone who works in your organization has to hand over a lot of pretty sensitive, private information: Their social security numbers, their health information, their job history. They’re trusting that whoever has access to that information is going to handle it...
by Caroline | Jul 23, 2014 | Company Culture, Hiring, HRCompliance, Management, Recruiting, teamwork
Many of our clients are startups so I really appreciate the concept of disruptive companies and Zappos is about as disruptive as they get. I mean, when you think about it, they sell shoes—so it’s not like they invented the consumer jet pack (when is that coming out by...
by Caroline | May 21, 2014 | Hiring, HRCompliance, Management, Recruiting, Training
I recently read an article about a bunch of Conde Nast interns suing the company for underpaying them because they did menial tasks that didn’t help their careers and could have been done by employees. The article wondered: Is this the end of internships? No!...
by Caroline | May 14, 2014 | Company Culture, HRCompliance, Management, People Evaluation, Training
Occasionally, when we propose discrimination and sexual harassment training, clients push back. “We would never hire the kind of person who would use racial epithets,” they say. “We would never hire someone who would sexually harass other employees.” Well, maybe not....
by Caroline | Apr 16, 2014 | Company Culture, HRCompliance, Management
Workers compensation insurance ain’t cheap. So companies may sometimes be tempted to fudge a little. Like, if one of your IT guys normally doesn’t do a lot of heavy lifting but when you need stuff carried out of the office he’s your go-to guy, you might be tempted to...
by Caroline | Mar 5, 2014 | Hiring, HRCompliance, Management, Non profit HR, Recruiting
In honor of SXSW, when film, music, comedy and tech lovers descend upon Austin en masse, I like to focus on using technology to free up human resources for the people side, not the paper side. Human resources has evolved a lot, but one thing that stays is the...
