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Handling Political Opinion and Conversation in the Work Environment
With the 2020 elections coming up within the week, many employers are facing a constant stream of political opinions being shared and discussed in the workplace that may have potential for disruption of productive conversation. Employers are tasked with determining...
Projecting Staffing Needs for 2021 in the Time of a Pandemic
As most businesses have learned this year, a pandemic can really skew projections when it comes to profitability and growth. As such, it’s also changed many hiring and recruitment plans for businesses that had been on target for greater growth pre-pandemic and have...
New Payroll Tax Holiday Available September 1 – December 31, 2020
New IRS Guidance related to employee payroll tax collection has been issued to allow for deferral of payroll taxes through the end of 2020 in an effort to provide income relief to those employees who have been impacted by COVID-19. Notice 2020-65 was issued on...
New FMLA Forms Available
If you’re an employer of 50 or more, you have likely had the experience of handling an employee’s leave of absence under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and know just how many forms are required to process and authorize an employee’s FML leave. Just recently,...
Understanding the Ins and Outs of Compensation Reviews
Have you ever been asked by an employee how you decided what they would make? Or perhaps tried to identify whether a role should be classified as Exempt or Non-Exempt? Or created a new position and had to determine how much to pay the new employee? One of the most...
ALERT: Fraud against small businesses on the rise!
ALERT: Fraud against small businesses on the rise! During the general kerfuffle that has arisen around COVID-19, many small businesses have been hit hard by fraudsters. One of the latest areas that we have seen a dramatic uptick in fraud has to do with Direct Deposit....
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Grief in the Workplace a Personal Experience
Grief, unfortunately, happens and the loss of loved ones, friends, and acquaintances cannot be avoided. When employees begin to navigate the grieving process it may have a profound impact on the workplace. As an employer and advisor to other employers, I didn’t fully...
Drive Consumer Action With Content Marketing
Today, the average amount of daily screen time a person spends on a device has increased to seven hours and that time has more than doubled over the last two years. Before the pandemic, the average user spent only three hours engaged with their devices, but as...
Recruitment Tools for Today’s Hiring Melee
With a record number of open job postings, and with many workers still on the sidelines, this has created a challenge of finding the right candidate to fill those open roles. With candidates in short supply, your recruitment strategies of pre-2020 now require a...
Rethink The Way We Work
March of 2020, what a different time. What we assumed would be short-term inconveniences to our daily lives has led to lasting impacts and changes in our thinking and our world as a whole; women have felt the brunt of the impact. Women have lost over 1 million more...
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