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New Data Highlights Challenges of Harnessing AI’s Potential

AI has been heralded as a game-changer for the workplace, offering unparalleled access to knowledge, increased efficiency, and automation of repetitive tasks. From streamlining workflows to enhancing decision-making, AI holds the potential to revolutionize productivity and innovation. Companies that effectively harness AI can gain a competitive edge, allowing employees to focus on higher-value, strategic work. […]

EEOC Updates Enforcement Priorities to Curb What it Calls “Anti-American” Bias

Recent guidance from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) makes it clear that national origin protections under Title VII of the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 protect American workers. In a one-page guidance document, the EEOC emphasized that federal law prohibits employers from favoring foreign workers to the detriment of American workers based on national […]

How the New Workforce Is Changing Incentive Compensation

Millennials employees are no longer a novel concept. As Scott T. Rollin notes in the Minneapolis Star Tribune, they’ve begun to move into middle management and other key employee roles. Coupled with employers’ worries about hiring and retaining qualified workers, the result is a mounting concern about how to compensate key Millennials.

Want to Help Grow the Business? Start with a Total Talent Strategy

As a recruiter, hiring manager, or HR professional, are you interested in helping your company grow its business but unsure of how to do so? The key to growth may come from your company’s talent strategy. However, for some companies, investing in a talent strategy may not be an option, that’s where a total talent […]

How Companies Can Advance Women in the Workplace

Forty-two percent of working women in the United States report experiencing gender discrimination in the workplace.  Women in the workplace have made a considerable amount of progress, but true inclusion and belonging require more equitable action than just equality. To ensure true inclusion and belonging in the workplace, businesses must take proactive steps to remove […]

Part Timers? Go Ahead and Terminate Them

Many managers and supervisors operate under the misguided belief that part-time employees have fewer rights than full-time employees, but that’s not so. In fact, the DOL does not make any distinction between part time and full time. For guidance, we turned to Compensation.BLR.com. What Is Considered ‘Part-Time’ Employment? There is no federal law that defines […]

Keeping Independent Contractor Relationships ‘Independent’

Whether a company is a start-up, in growth mode, or looking to hire out-of-state workers, it may face a dilemma about whether to bring on a new worker as an employee or an independent contractor. That distinction is important because independent contractors don’t receive overtime pay or unemployment benefits, aren’t covered by the company’s workers’ […]

A little compassion would have gone a long way for United Airlines

by Dan Oswald Imagine you own a restaurant. It’s a small, cozy place that caters to families and has a great reputation not only for the food but also for the atmosphere. One evening, a customer comes in and orders that night’s special. When his entrée arrives, he takes issue first with the temperature and […]