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For employers that offered telework as a temporary option in the earlier phases of the COVID-19 pandemic, now is the time to evaluate whether a formal remote working policy is a good fit going forward. While offering telecommuting options may have business advantages such as being a recruiting tool, lowering facility and travel expenses, and boosting morale, there are also legal risks to consider.
Kiss 2019 goodbye—we’re heading into 2020! Over the last year, let alone the last decade, recruiters have had to deal with unusually low unemployment, the rise of automation and artificial intelligence, and a candidate-driven market that’s thrown old practices to the wind, resulting in creative strategies to secure top talent.
Managing healthcare costs has been at the top of most HR professionals’ (pro) to-do lists for the better part of the past decade, as medical costs continue to rise. With the onset of 2019, the New Year presents the opportunity to make it happen. Fifty-two percent of U.S. consumers have low healthcare system literacy, according […]
Minimum wage and overtime pay are two of the requirements set forth in the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The FLSA mandates that employees be paid at least the minimum wage and also that they receive one and one-half times their regular rate of pay for weekly hours over 40 hours.
Within your company, is there one employee who just kind of gets everyone’s guard up? Maybe they’re a bit rude or forceful. Maybe they kick back too often and let others pick up the slack. Or maybe their negative attitude is just a total drain on business operations. The problems they bring to the table […]
At a time when HR teams are under pressure to identify top talent, they’re increasingly turning to objective and predictive hiring tools. Traditional hiring methods such as résumés and unstructured interviews force HR teams to rely on subjective impressions and judgments to make hiring decisions, and these methods often fail to provide sufficient information about […]
Federal Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald ruled that President Trump could not block certain Twitter users from viewing his tweets, and that doing so was in violation of the U.S. Constitution. This ruling comes on the heels of President Trump—whose Twitter handle @realDonaldTrump—blocking some of his critics, many of them celebrities, from his Twitter account. Those […]
Healthy competition in the workplace can increase productivity and encourage innovative thinking. However, a critical aspect of sustaining an optimal work environment is to focus on creating collaborative learning opportunities that employees actually seek out and enjoy.
As more and more companies have shifted their employees from in-office workers to remote work, people are starting to see a major change in the way their teams at large interact with one another. These types of interactions add up to a vague but important term: company culture. But what is a company culture? The […]
Over the last few decades, background checks have become an integral part of the hiring process all over the country. According to a 2022 PBSA survey, at least 94 percent of American employers conducted at least one type of background screening in the last year. Screening candidates both efficiently and effectively can help companies craft […]