HR

Do You Need to Reevaluate Your Onboarding Process?

Watch for these signs that your onboarding process needs a makeover. A good onboarding process is crucial for turning your candidates into productive workers. Many companies use outdated materials and rush through the process to get new employees right to work. However, carefully planned and thorough onboarding can actually add value to a company by enabling new employees to start out with ample experience before hitting the work floor...

Managing Client Relationships

Staying on positive terms with your clients can be just as important as the quality of your products or services. Retaining customers is about more than just giving them good value on a good product — it is also about being perceived as convenient, reliable, and willing to go the extra mile. Here are a few simple tips that can help you manage customer relationships more effectively: Manage Customer...

What to Do When An Employee Breaks the Rules

Whether it’s a habitual bad apple committing another infraction, or even a model employee making a sincere mistake, employee discompliance is never an easy topic for employers to deal with. After all, workplace morale, employer-employee relations, staff completeness, and even legal actions all potentially lie in the balance. However, such issues cannot be ignored — especially when they are serious and/or ongoing in nature. In this article, we will...

3 Things to Do Before Hiring a New Employee

Whether your company has nine employees or ninety-nine employees, making a new hire is always an exciting time because it is a sign of growth, success, and hope for the future. All the same, it is important to avoid getting carried away in all this excitement, as making an impulsive hiring decision can easily come back to haunt you. No need to worry, though — hiring doesn’t need to...

Wage Theft: What You Need To Know

One of the most important topics in modern employer/employee relations: wage theft. According to a recent study published by the Economic Policy Institute, wage theft has become an “epidemic” in the United States, costing workers hundreds of millions of dollars each year.   The problem of wage theft has not gone unnoticed. Many state and local governments have responded with strong regulations, for example, and many unions have made...

Avoiding Wrongful Termination Lawsuits

  Wrongful termination lawsuits are an employer’s worst nightmare — not only does losing an employee in the first place cost your company time and money, but dealing with a lawsuit can drain your resources, damage your resources, and harm employee morale. That’s why it should go without saying that it’s in your best interest to be proactive and avoid wrongful termination suits from the very beginning. Here are...

4 Questions To Ask Yourself Before Making a Hiring Decision

Dedicated employees are the heart and soul of every successful business. Your hiring decisions will determine your company culture, they will determine public perception of your business, and they will determine how effectively and efficiently work gets done under your watch. When going through the hiring process, it is important to craft insightful questions for job candidates. But it is also important to ask yourself the right questions before...

The Growing Trend of Unretirement

  Journalist Chris Farrell recently published an interesting book titled Unretirement: How Baby Boomers Are Changing the Way We Think About Work, Community, and the Good Life. In short, the book examines one of the most important professional trends in the 21st century. Namely, many senior citizens are choosing to work (either in full or part-time capacity) beyond the standard retirement age. In this article, we will break down...

12 Ways An HR Firm Can Make Your Life Easier

Have you ever considered outsourcing your company’s HR functions? Here are a few ways that an HR firm can make your company more efficient: Check Signing & Stuffing is a rote task that can consume precious managerial time. If you prefer to spend your work time leading your company and finding solutions to real problems instead of filling envelopes and writing your own name, we can help! Direct Deposit...

7 Rights and Responsibilities Employers Should Take Into Account

Hiring employees goes along with a variety of important rights and responsibilities. Here a few tips that every employer should be aware of: Hiring Must Reflect Necessity. Have concrete reasons for hiring the employees you hire, and document them. This will help protect you from claims of discrimination and other unfair hiring practices. You may also wish to review the EEOC’s guidelines on fair hiring practices. Worker’s Comp Insurance...