The Health Effects of Business Travel
Travel is essential for many businesses and employees in order to provide a more personal connection to potential and current clients. Those tasked with traveling undoubtedly know what to expect and may enjoy getting to see new locations, but too much travel can...
How Partnering With an HR Outsourcing Company Can Benefit Your Business
Even if your company has the best staff around, it can sometimes be difficult to complete its work in all departments at a consistently optimized level. If things get busy, it’s not uncommon for items to slip through the cracks and for efficiency to slow down. For...
Handling Employee Harassment by Customers
Much of the focus of harassment in the workplace tend to center around how employees interact with one another, but for those who have to work directly with customers and clients, it is entirely possible to encounter harassment from outside the company. Even though...
Keep Employees Up-To-Date on New Technology
“Yes, training lacked with new technology. Those of us who did not grow up with the new technology were not given a reasonable amount of time to learn. I wish the department was able to have us go to certification training workshops so we could do better at our job....
Supporting New Parents and Reducing Employee Turnover after Parental Leave
Welcoming a new child into the world is an exciting and often exhausting experience for new parents. Schedules and routines are suddenly thrown off balance or completely out the window, and while still trying to navigate this new normal, the time eventually comes to...
Sexual Harassment in the Workplace
Businesses have a responsibility to provide employees with a safe work environment, whether it is in regards to equipment or culture. Regardless of the type of business, sexual harassment is a very real threat that can make individuals feel uncomfortable or unsafe and...
Handling Safety Issues in the Workplace
“Certain situations would put me in danger and I was told to just do my job. Even though we had safety meetings we were made to disregard them when working at certain job sites. It was all about doing the job with no regard to employee safety.” – Actual comment from...
Handling Employees’ Summer Vacation Requests
Summer is almost here, and that means an influx of time-off requests for the holidays and various family vacations. Having a process in place to ensure you have staff on-hand is essential, but it needs to be done fairly and in a way that still provides your employees...
Workplace Violence: Identify Risks and Prevention Tactics
People going to work generally don’t think much about violence taking place within a professional environment, but unfortunately, there are 2 million assaults and threats of violence against others in the workplace annually, according to the National Crime...
Addressing and Correcting Poor Employee Performance
“Management must do a better job with problem employees and correct situations.” – Actual comment from an employee exiting a company. The truth of any business is that the employees’ perceptions are reality. If managers allow issues to go unaddressed, work will get...
Don’t Lose Employees over Job Security Concerns
“We were always worried about being on the chopping block because of jobs being eliminated so I decided since my security was at risk, I would find other more secure employment where layoffs were less common.” – Actual quote from an employee exiting a company If...
