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How To Help Prevent Suicide
National Suicide Prevention Week is an annual week-long campaign serving as a reminder of the need to inform and engage the public about suicide prevention by drawing attention to the problem. With the turmoil brought to our lives during the COVID-19 pandemic there is...
A Mid-Year Review of Your Strategic Plan
Strategic planning is a road map for the future that businesses and their leadership rely on to develop short-term, long-term, and contingency plans. This time of year offers leaders a chance to review their planning process and make necessary adjustments in order to...
Navigating Return To Work Uncertainty During a Pandemic
Since March 2020 the Covid-19 virus has taught employers a key lesson about running a business during a global pandemic. During uncertain times, flexibility is the only consistency in a stream of ever-changing variables impacting businesses. Earlier this summer with...
Celebrating 20 Years of Business
Twenty years ago on July 15th, 2001, Juli Bacon started her Human Resource consulting company, JB Consulting Systems. At the time, she was raising a four-year-old son and expecting her second child and realized that there had to be a shift in her own work/life...
Pride Month and Beyond: Supporting LGBTQ+ Employees
The spirit of Pride Month is celebrated every year in the month of June. It’s a time of celebration for the LGBTQ+ community and an opportunity to raise awareness of the inequalities, violence against and persecution of the LGBTQ+-community over the past few decades....
Build Your Dream Team
The sporting world knows the drill when it comes to winning. There’s no one secret ingredient or secret formula for creating a winning team. Ask any athletic coach, trainer or owner of a sports franchise and they’ll likely tell you that building a high performing and...
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Top 4 Reasons Recruiters Struggle to Find the Right Candidates
The Recruiting Disconnect Recruiting is a challenging task that requires a lot of time and effort. Despite the best hiring efforts, it’s not uncommon for there to be a struggle to find the right candidates for open positions. At the same time, candidates often feel...
The Time Has Finally Come – WA Cares Fund Payroll Deductions Begin July 1, 2023
History/Timeline In 2019, the governor signed the Long-Term Services & Support (LTSS) Trust Act, which established the WA Cares Fund, which is a mandatory long-term care insurance benefit administered by the State of Washington for workers in Washington State....
Importance of Employee Performance Reviews and Communication
As we look to close out the first quarter of a new year, we look at the changing work landscape. We have survived a pandemic, there is a labor shortage in some industries, and layoffs in others. Some industries have allowed remote, or hybrid work and others still...
Avoiding a Workplace Retaliation Claim
Did you know that retaliation is the most common type of claim filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)? According to the EEOC, more than half of all charges filed in fiscal 2021 were retaliation based. Taking steps to ensure that best practices...
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