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Email is a major form of communication, and employers need to teach their employees how to be effective users of email, including when not to use it. Here are the Big 5: five rules everyone should follow when sending and receiving emails to be effective and professional. 1: Always Respond If you send an email […]
Health care employers continue to face heightened scrutiny of their wage and hour practices. Hospitals, physician groups, long-term care facilities, rehabilitation providers, home health agencies, and other health care organizations operate around the clock and often rely on complex scheduling and compensation structures. Those operational realities can create compliance challenges under the Fair Labor Standards […]
Recent research highlights a glaring gap in traditional benefits strategies: 21% of HR executives report that insufficient guidance during Open Enrollment serves as the main barrier to benefits utilization, while 26% point to a complete lack of ongoing education outside of enrollment season as the biggest obstacle holding employees back. According to Robert Deshaies, Chief […]
Colorado employers should review their Form I-9 and employment eligibility verification procedures following the enactment of House Bill (HB) 26-1283. The new law became effective on June 3, 2026, and added new restrictions on an employer’s possession and retention of government-issued identification documents. What the Law Says The new law, codified at C.R.S. § 8-2-124.5, […]
When Open Enrollment rolls around, employees find themselves buried under an avalanche of medical options, leaving little mental bandwidth for anything else. According to Robert Deshaies, Chief Operating Officer at WEX, treating benefits as a once-a-year administrative task means leaving substantial value on the table for both your organization and employees. “Benefits utilization is a […]
Have you ever suddenly realized that it’s already October and you still have two weeks of vacation time to burn through? Millions of employees have had the same realization, and this year is no exception. With the end of the year quickly approaching, many employees are scrambling to avoid a PTO cliff. This is because […]
In case you were looking for another chatbot cautionary tale, the latest comes from a decision issued by an administrative law judge analyzing a company’s arguments in defense of a National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) Section 7 charge. Employer Confesses, in Writing, to Unlawful Motive for Firing The facts underlying the charge are simple enough. […]
AI safety has become an employee-relations issue. In the past week, mainstream reporting has covered an Anthropic researcher resigning over safety concerns and bipartisan senators pressing OpenAI about whether advanced AI systems can elude human control. That public discussion will reach workplaces where HR leaders are already managing anxiety about job loss, deskilling, surveillance, and […]
Taylor Swift’s recent sourdough obsession offers an unexpectedly useful lesson for employers navigating employee performance improvement concerns: good results take the right ingredients, a little patience, and plenty of follow-up. So what do sourdough and employee performance issues have in common? They’re both crummy! I was inspired by Taylor’s journey into sourdough and actually started […]
AI is reshaping how organizations attract, screen and evaluate talent. As adoption accelerates, so does the conversation around risk, regulation and responsibility. But much of that conversation is built on assumptions that do not hold up, and they are quietly preventing employers from building effective and accountable hiring programs. Here are five misconceptions that I […]