by Marin Wren | Jun 10, 2025 | Blog
Finding the right people for your team is one of the most important decisions you can make as a business leader. But that doesn’t mean you need to pay tens of thousands of dollars to get it right. Traditional recruiters and headhunters often charge 20–50% of your new...
by Marin Wren | Jun 10, 2025 | Blog
June is Migraine and Headache Awareness Month, a time to shed light on a condition that affects millions of people—but is often invisible in the workplace. Chronic migraines are more than just a headache. For many employees, they’re a life-disrupting condition that...
by The HR Experts | May 20, 2025 | Blog
Olympia, WA — At the 2025 Winter Board Meeting of the Building Industry Association of Washington (BIAW), members gathered to elect Juli Bacon as the new State Professional Women in Building (PWB) Chair for the upcoming year. Bacon, a well-respected leader in the...
by Marin Wren | May 13, 2025 | Blog
Understanding the Language of Disengagement—and How to Respond with Intention The modern workplace is evolving rapidly—and with it, so is the language employees use to describe their experience. Phrases like quiet cutting, loud leaving, rage applying, and resenteeism...
by Marin Wren | May 13, 2025 | Blog
An HR Tale of Culture, Communication, and Crumbly Consequences It started like any other Monday. The office kitchen—normally a buzz of caffeine-fueled camaraderie—was unusually quiet. The Motivation Monday donuts, a sweet tradition courtesy of HR, were nowhere to be...
by Juli Bacon | May 13, 2025 | Blog
May 10, 2025, would have been my dad’s 87th birthday. It kind of crept up on me, but I started thinking about him a lot more and feeling waves of grief wash over me that had at least gotten duller in the past 2 years. That’s when I realized what time of the year it...
