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The $6.9 Billion Smoking Gun E-Mail

‘Innocent’ little e-mails and text messages can cost companies billions, wreck promising careers (of politicians and HR managers), and cause untold hassles. In today’s Advisor, attorney Mindy Chapman sorts out the issues. Chapman, a popular speaker and consultant and president of Mindy Chapman & Assocates LLC, offered her tips at the recent SHRM Annual Convention […]

The 2015 Employee Leave Survey Results Are In!

The results of our 2015 Employee Leave Survey are in and reveal that 99.4% of participants offer some form of time off to employees (marginally up from 98.9% in 2014). Here are a few more highlights of the survey: Paid time off (PTO) is available to 96.6% of those responding to our survey. Paid sick […]

Benefits of Texting Job Applicants

Do you text job applicants? Some employers prefer the formality of e-mail communications, while others prefer the personal touch of phone calls. Many combine multiple forms of communication at the same time.

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3 Strategies for Improved Interdepartmental Communication

As companies grow, there is necessarily a division of functions across various departments. While a start-up might have a handful of employees or even a single person engaged in all aspects of the business—from marketing and operations to accounting and finance—larger organizations tend to engage specialized teams or departments to focus on specific areas.

Santa’s Workshop Continues to Deal with COVID-19 Protocols

Everyone at Santa’s workshop is busily preparing for the Big Day. The COVID-19 shutdown earlier this year put them behind schedule, and meeting the workshop’s stringent pandemic protocols has been a challenge, but things look good now for meeting their Christmas Eve deadline.

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Job Descriptions: Worth Doing or a Tedious Waste of Time?

Job descriptions—usually seen as just another task on the to-do list for HR professionals—are generally an underused resource. But you can rely on them for a variety of reasons, including recruiting, performance reviews, reasonable accommodations, and employee classification.

What Happens When the Police Want to Share Your Investigation?

Yesterday’s Advisor gave guidance about reluctant witnesses. Today, what happens when the police want to be involved. Again, we turn to BLR’s Workplace Investigations: The HR Manager’s Step-by-Step Guide for assistance.   On occasion, you may have to interview someone who has been accused of an act that is a violation of your workplace policy […]

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Collaboration and Coming Together After COVID-19

Most of us have been transformed in unexpected ways by the pause in our life forced by COVID-19. We can dwell on the negatives, but the inspiring people we’ve interviewed at Ever Widening Circles teach us that the future belongs to those who find the positive gift of insight through chaos and negativity.