Why Soft Skills Are the New Career Makers
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Core-Flex Basics: The Relocation Policies That Will Make Your Life Easier
Domestic and global mobility grow increasingly complex as economic, geographic, and individual employee factors are all weighed together when it comes to making policy decisions. Traditional relocation programs can struggle to meet the challenges of this complexity, pushing firms to look for flexibility.
Hey, HR, Your Employees Are (Finally) Interested in Their Voluntary Benefits
Typically, employees think about their benefits two times: when they are first hired and the day before benefits elections are due. This year, however, things are very different. According to recent research from Voya Financial, 71% of employees plan to spend more time reviewing their voluntary benefits this year compared with last. The reason for […]
Train Employees to Give Great Customer Service to Coworkers
If you and your employees don’t work directly with company customers, it may seem that customer service training doesn’t apply to you. But it does. Customer service is an issue that involves everyone in the organization. That’s because all employees have customers. If they don’t have external customers, they do have internal customers, otherwise known […]
Navigating California’s Pay Equity Enforcement Act: What Employers Need to Know
California has long been a leader in workplace equity, but the recent passage of S.B. 642—the Pay Equity Enforcement Act (“Act”)—marks a significant turning point for employers and employees alike. Signed into law by Governor Gavin Newsom on October 8, 2025, the Act went into effect January 1, 2026. It introduces new requirements for pay […]
10 Dogooder Acts that Drive Good Salespeople to the Competition
Stevens is Vice President of R&D at Chally Group Worldwide, a global leadership, sales potential, and performance measurement firm. [Go here for Mistakes 1 to 6] MISTAKE 7: Being a Do-Gooder Since most sales managers enjoy influencing other people, they tend to pride themselves on improvements they see in their sales forces. They have a […]
Best Practice: Training Program Provides Workers with Skills and Employers with Feedback
Today’s Advisor reports on how one company’s training program has performed beyond all expectations.
Ask the Expert: Is Our Policy for Substituting Paid Leave for FMLA OK?
My understanding is that employers may not require employees to use paid leave not yet available. At my company we make employees use all but 5 vacation days before taking unpaid FMLA leave. Are we violating anything by doing this?
Catch Me If You Can Compensation? DOL Says ‘I Caught You’
“There is a dramatic increase in wage and hour lawsuits,” says Contacos-Sawyer (and the recent Wal-Mart decision probably means an even greater increase). At her presentation at the recent World at Work Total Rewards Conference in San Diego, Contacos-Sawyer, president of HR Consultants, Inc., was joined by colleagues Polly Wright and Judith Mickey. What About […]
Employers Would Likely Foot the Bill for Trump’s Parental Leave Plan
President Trump’s latest budget proposal calls for 6 weeks’ paid leave for new parents. And while the employee wage replacement that comes with the leave would be paid out by states, experts say states will have to draw at least some of the funding from businesses.