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Maybe you’re already offering health insurance to your employees, but you’re not sure about offering additional, ancillary benefits. Should you offer additional benefits like dental, vision, or life insurance? Many business owners avoid these benefits, believing they’re too small to offer them, the benefits would be too expensive, employees don’t care, and other reasons. But…

Workers love the flexibility of defining their own work schedule. Employers like being able to have the right number of staff at the right time, maintaining efficiency. And yet there are challenges to helping both workers and employers navigate this situation that both sides want. It’s much more complicated, managing everyone and what they’re doing,…

We all want extraordinary performance from our teams. Extraordinary performance requires productive behavior. And to get productivity, you need engaged employees. One of the most important tools for driving employee engagement is simple: conversations. But not just any conversations. Learn why the check-in conversation is the most powerful five minutes you can spend, and how…

A growing company often needs to hire a lot of people in a short period of time. This is a good problem to have—you’re succeeding and growing!—but a problem nonetheless. Hiring can be difficult and time-consuming, and the choices you make about the people you add to your team can have a huge impact on…

You’ll often hear people describe their business’s work culture as being “like a family.” But is that a good description? Is that something we should aspire to, or not? The answer is, well, it’s complicated. There are definitely some strong positives people desire: commitment, communication, and acceptance, for example. On the other hand, some people…

Human resources can be an extremely complicated, time-consuming task for small businesses, making it a prime candidate for possible outsourcing. Do some research, and determine whether outsourcing some of your HR functions could be a huge boon to your business, freeing you to spend more time on the things that you do best, and that…

The average employee is spending less and less time with a company before moving on to a new job, and businesses will need to find new ways to improve and speed hiring. Believe it or not, dating-style recruiting apps are growing in popularity, allowing recruiters to match candidates who not only have the right skills,…

Bringing in new employees is a necessary and important key to any growing company’s success. But with new laws and regulations coming up every year, it’s vital to stay up to date with the legal requirements to stay compliant. In this article, we look at some of the compliance requirements in the pre-employment stage. Is…

A diverse workplace can yield some obvious benefits, like building your brand, reaching your community, and adding to your office culture. But there are many other very important benefits to having a diverse team. Diverse teams think more creatively, are more likely to overcome biases, and make better decisions. To learn more about why diversity…