When hiring new employees, most employers only consider qualifications listed on a resume or a LinkedIn profile. They look for only those people with the best Education Experience Certifications Skills This is a mistake, because you can teach employees what you need them to know, and you can give them the experience you want them […]
When calculating the cost of employee overtime, there is more to consider than just the premium wages (i.e. time and a half or double time for the extra hours worked) paid to the workers. There is much evidence that, despite the fact that many employers tout it’s short-term benefits, continuous overtime can cause harm to […]
With the end of the holiday seasonal hiring period, I thought this would be the perfect time to discuss seasonal businesses/shifts. Seasonal hiring does not only exist during the holiday season. Seasonal businesses range from tourism-oriented companies to tax preparation services. However, a larger range of industries experience extreme seasonal shifts, and their needs are […]
The weak economy has caused many people to put off retirement and stay in the workforce much long than originally planned. Combined with the approximately 100,000 new workers entering the workforce every month, a new workplace dynamic has emerged. For the first time in recorded history, there are workers spanning four different generations in the […]
Even though the U.S. economy is predicted to grow faster in 2012, experts do not believe that this will fully extend to the job market. The predicted economic growth is not expected to push the unemployment rate down much – perhaps as little as 0.2% before the presidential elections in November. Economists anticipate barely enough […]
For the first time in recorded history, today’s workforce is comprised of members from four generations. This dynamic is unprecedented and has been dissected as the cause of much workplace strife. Research shows that different generations can be characterized by certain sets of attitudes and beliefs, but today’s workplace realities are a little more nuanced, since […]
Happy New Year!! This is the time of year that we look back at the highlights of 2011 and marvel at how far we have come. But it is also the time that we look ahead to 2012 – to analyze the trends and events that are going to shape the year to come. In […]
Is it important for your employees to be happy? To answer that question, consider the results of the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index, which has been polling more than 1,000 adults every day since January 2008. According to their results, Americans now feel worse about their jobs and work environments than ever before. People of all ages, […]
Wouldn’t it be great if you could eliminate a bottleneck by simply eating a few chocolate candies? If this seems like a strange concept to you, consider the famous 1952 “Job Switching” episode from the iconic television series, I Love Lucy. Here, characters Lucy and Ethel went to work wrapping chocolates in a candy factory. […]
In a society filled with Super Committee failures, rampant ponzi schemes, continual terror threats and pervasive identity theft, you may rightfully be tempted to ask, “Whom can I trust?” The truth is, trust is a rare thing – especially in business today. In fact, a 2011 GfK Corporate Trust Survey indicates that “distrust of corporations […]
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