Ask the Expert: FMLA ‘Fitness for Duty’ Requirements Explained
When a person sees their doctor for a condition approved under FMLA, is the doctor required to specify that the visit is covered under FMLA on the return to work slip?
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Tacking the “E” in DEI: BTS Focuses on Equity
Two particularly interesting aspects of our ongoing series on chief diversity officers (CDOs) and similar roles are the career paths those leaders have taken to get to where they are today and the creative approaches they apply to their unique diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) challenges. For this installment, we spoke with BTS Chief Diversity […]
Organizations Are Failing Their Leadership Teams
Your employees are demanding effective leaders. Are you able to provide this for them? If not, you’ll lose top talent to employers that do—and ultimately, your bottom line will be negatively impacted, as well.
Hiring Faster: How You Can Speed Up Time to Hire
In a job market with high unemployment, employers may find themselves with hiring needs but few available applicants who meet their requirements. What often ends up happening is employers have too many applicants but not enough who are qualified. In today’s unique situation, we’re faced with high unemployment levels but difficulty hiring.
Accommodating Hearing and Visually Impaired Employees During Remote Work
Some of the often-hidden experiences in many offices even before the COVID-19 pandemic triggered a widespread shift to remote work have been the experiences of hearing and visually impaired employees. With a broad shift to remote work, these employees are often finding it more difficult than before to perform their basic job duties. Accommodating the […]
The Generational Fault Lines: Why RTO and AI Adoption Look Different for Every Employee
The modern workplace is a multi-generational landscape, and new data confirms that the era an employee grew up in directly dictates their views on core policy decisions, from where they work to the technology they trust. According to the 2026 State of People Strategy Report, which surveyed over 1,000 HR professionals globally, managing generational perspectives is […]
Genuinely Caring about Employees: The Emerging Workplace Paradigm
What happens when you put a scientist and someone with a passion for HR together? You get someone like Laura Hamill, PhD, the Chief People Officer and Founder of the Limeade Institute. In today’s edition of “Faces of HR,” we learn more about Laura, how she approaches engagement and culture, and what she thinks HR […]
Leadership: The Value of ‘Did You Get That Figured Out?’
The term “micromanagement” has a negative connotation and for good reason. In general, people don’t like to have someone literally or figuratively looking over their shoulder while they perform their work. At the same time, managers are often faced with employees who—for a variety of reasons—ask for more help in performing relatively straightforward tasks.
Creating Incentives for Training Participation
Companies spend considerable amounts of money on training their employees. According to one expert, large companies with 10,000 or more employees spend $13 million per year on employee training on average; companies between 1,000 and 9,999 employees spend $3.7 million per year on average; and small companies with fewer than 1,000 employees spend $290,000.
How to Keep Meetings from Getting Sidetracked
We’ve all been there: a meeting that seemingly never ends; a meeting that goes around in circles over the same insignificant topics without ever coming to a resolution; a meeting that wraps up leaving attendees feeling like the primary purpose for getting together was never addressed.