by Caroline | Jun 27, 2016 | Hiring, HR Strategy, HR Technology, HRCompliance, HRIS, Management, Non profit HR
Do you know how much your employees are costing you, relative to what they’re producing for you? Do you know what your turnover rates are, compared to other companies in your industry? Do you know who your most effective manager is? What I mean is, do you have data on...
by Caroline | May 25, 2016 | Compensation and Benefits, HR Technology, HRCompliance, HRIS, Labor Law, Leadership, Management
As I discussed last week, many small business leaders choose to pay everybody salary, regardless of the rules. I’m thinking they won’t be doing that any more, now that the Department of Labor has issued new overtime rules and will be cracking down on people who...
by Caroline | Mar 3, 2016 | Company Culture, HRIS, Leadership, Management, Non profit HR, rewards, teamwork
Tomorrow is Employee Appreciation Day, which most people assume is about leaders and managers appreciating employees. And it is about that. But here’s a statistic I picked up from the Society of Human Resources Managers recently: according to a 2012 report by SHRM and...
by Caroline | Jan 20, 2016 | Company Culture, HRCompliance, HRIS, Leadership, Management
In case you haven’t heard, the IRS deadlines for Affordable Care Act reporting requirements have been pushed back. For companies that are on the ball and scrambled to do whatever they had to do to make the deadlines, this is an annoyance. It’s like people who prepared...
by Caroline | Dec 30, 2015 | Company Culture, Culture, Holiday Wishes!!, HRCompliance, HRIS, HRSafety, Labor Law, Management, People Evaluation, rewards, teamwork
2015 was, in a lot of ways, a big year of shifting. With a crazy battle for talent and everybody trying to figure out how to create a winning culture, there were many organizations wrestling to figure out how to flatten their hierarchies and what benefits would really...
by Caroline | Oct 7, 2015 | HRCompliance, HRIS, Labor Law, Management, Non profit HR
I read a statistic recently that 77 percent of HR professionals say their departments have gone paperless. And I started thinking about the other 23 percent, having people come in and get a piece of paper and fill out all the boxes—oops, mistake? Scratch it out, or,...
