Navigating New State Employment Laws in 2024 As we settle into 2024, companies across the United States face a wave of new state employment laws. These changes, spanning from minimum wage adjustments to increased worker protections, carry significant implications for employers across the country. In this article, we’ll delve into some of the major changes […]
How You Can Take Advantage of Your Employee Stock Options It’s the dream of any freshly-hired startup employee: Start with stock options in your fledgling company, work hard to see that company become a success and reap the rewards of your equity with a handsome post-IPO payday. Real-world stories of employees at world-famous startups like […]
Why Teamwork Skills are Important to Include for Your Resume Chances are you use teamwork skills every day without even knowing it. Even if you’ve never had a professional job. You use teamwork skills, or the skills used to work well with others, with coworkers in the classroom, while volunteering, or during your extracurricular activities. […]
What is a Performance Improvement Plan (PIP)? Companies use strategies for performance action plans called a performance improvement plan (PIP). A PIP is typically used to help employees who are not meeting performance objectives. This could mean consistent failures or due to behavioral-related concerns. Human Resources professionals determine whether or not the PIP is appropriate […]
5 Ways to Make Engagement More Appealing It can be hard to speak up while at work about things that are not meeting your expectations. Or the opposite – activities or good deeds that go unrecognized that you feel should be acknowledged. Therefore, employee engagement surveys can be a useful tool when it comes to […]
9 Strategies to Effectively Manage Your Hybrid Workforce Managing remote employees can be tricky, but it’s possible to overcome the challenges inherent in the hybrid workplace. Hybrid work plans, which combine in-office and remote work, are becoming increasingly popular as employees seek a balance between both models. Hybrid work plans give employees the opportunity to […]
How to Make On-the-Job Training Work for Your Business On-the-job (OTJ) training involves teaching new hires about their position while in the workplace. It focuses on experiential learning, or learning through doing, compared to offsite training. HR plays a major role in developing these OTJ training programs to have in place. HR professionals often advocate […]
Ways to Answer ‘Why Should We Hire You?’ The job market these days is tough everywhere. From finding top quality candidates, to tougher interview processes, it all comes down to what the top reason is to hire a top applicant. It may feel impossible to answer, yet it’s a perfectly reasonable question – ‘Why should […]
Why Organizations Cannot Ignore the DEI Shift in the Workplace An organizational shift to include Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives at the workplace has existed, making an impact, yet rarely was it prominent enough to warrant the attention it deserved. However, this shift has been more prominent than ever before in recent years. Furthermore, […]
What You Should Know about the New Pregnant Workers Fairness Act In the past few years, many types of discrimination in the workplace have come to light. Awareness about discrimination against minorities or those with disability in the workplace has led to some great changes. Unfortunately, pregnant employees still face unfair treatment at work.