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Employee Recognition
Has COVID lowered employee morale?
Last year was a brutal year on all of us as we went through a global pandemic and experienced drastic changes to our typical lives. People’s lives changed, how we do work changed, and the way we see the world has changed. Specifically, the workplace has been changing continuously to fit the needs of safely......
6 ways Small Businesses Improve Results by Investing in HR
Not every company needs to hire an HR professional, but every company needs to invest in its HR function. Without skilled and experienced human resources advice, small business owners can make expensive mistakes. In addition, HR can offer ownership proactive guidance and recommendation on ways to improve HR processes and procedures and shape and de...
Paying Non-Discretionary Bonuses (and proper OT) to Hourly Employees
Bonuses are great motivators for performance and a meaningful way to recognize employees that deliver excellent results for your business. If your company plans to pay overtime eligible employee (hourly) bonuses (on a quarterly or annual basis), you need to follow the rules in the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). To help employers, the Wage......
Keeping a Remote Workforce Connected
How can you improve your company’s employment experience when your employees are not located in a shared centralized environment? Whether your workers are out on construction sites, dispatched on a daily schedule of customer visits, working from home, or staffing client locations, the challenge is the same: how to create a unified and satisfy...
Employee Engagement for Small Business
There are some occupations — astronaut, surgeon, or prima ballerina, for example — in which people rarely succeed without being rocket-fueled by commitment and passion … and it is unlikely that their employers spend much time worrying about their level of “engagement.” But I think it is probably safe to say that most...
10 fresh (but affordable) ways to Recognize Employees
Let’s face it – continuing to do the same thing, at the same time, in the same way, is boring. This is totally true for employee recognition. Classics include: employee of the month, gift certificate raffle, great parking spot, monthly lunch were all great ideas – but companies need to keep things fresh and trendy......
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