HR Management

Plan unforgettable team-building events

03/27/2024

Team-building events can be a hit or a miss. If you ask colleagues about their experiences with such activities, you’re bound to get mixed responses. Team-building can be fun, engaging and beneficial, but poor planning and lackluster ideas are often the downfall of what could have been extraordinary. Here are some options to consider across the country for your next team-building event.

10 keys to retaining your high performers

03/22/2024

Tackling the talent shortage head-on requires a fresh roadmap for leaders. Let’s discuss the first of several secrets to solving the short-term crunch and providing a long-term talent solution.

Incorporating AI into HR: Set these 4 essential policies

03/20/2024

As artificial intelligence becomes increasingly integrated into the workplace, it is more important than ever to place limits on its use. Applied to HR, AI can deliver many benefits, including streamlining recruitment, reducing hiring bias, organizing and analyzing data, automating administrative tasks and personalizing training. However, it’s crucial to pay attention to the potential risks.

5.5% of workers live more than 50 miles away

03/18/2024

The rise of remote work has given employees the flexibility to live almost anywhere there’s a good internet connection, and the result is greater physical distance between workers’ homes and their employers’ facilities.

Control March Madness by setting policy on workplace gambling

03/18/2024

In many companies, bracket-pool betting on the tournament is a time-honored tradition. Should you worry?

Get out the vote: Create a voting leave policy

03/15/2024

Were you prepared for the elections that just took place in March? Were your employees clear on when they could take time to vote? Make sure you are prepared come November by implementing a policy or scrutinizing your current one. You can encourage voter turnout by implementing a voting-leave policy that shows employees you take the right to vote seriously.

Beware the fine line between insubordinate threats and actual violence

03/13/2024

It’s up to HR to keep an eye out for workplace discord that could erupt into violence. Train supervisors to be alert for obvious insubordination. An employee who refuses to follow directions or openly challenges authority other than through reasonable channels may be on the verge of escalating insubordination into violence. In turn, HR should have a plan to intervene, either through appropriate internal discipline or by referring the matter to the police.

Limit liability from data breaches that expose employee info

03/11/2024

Imagine this nightmare scenario: You’ve contracted with a vendor to enter personnel data into a new computer system. You hand over confidential employee info, including Social Security numbers, addresses, names of dependents, health records and bank account routing numbers. Then the vendor notifies you that the employee information was somehow stolen. What will you do? It happens more often than anyone would like to admit.

Considering return-to-office mandate? Read this research first

03/04/2024

Are your organization’s leaders thinking about ordering staff to return to in-person work after four years of telecommuting? It might pay to consider the findings of a recent study that found that return-to-office mandates generally fail to deliver performance gains. They do alienate employees.

Ask your lawyer: Does California’s pay-data law apply to us?

03/01/2024

Hundreds of HR-related state and local laws have a long reach that affects employers with even the slightest connection to the jurisdiction where they originated. You might have to comply if you have just one remote employee working there.