Tips for Improving Performance Reviews
You want to start off 2021 on the right foot and enable your staff to improve their performance so reviews come easier the next time around. Proper performance improvements begin from the top down in most workplaces. A staff is only as good as its leadership and the leadership’s ability to help employees achieve goals […]
Reducing Stress in the Workplace
As the COVID pandemic is continuing to evolve and prolong business ventures, it is also having a considerable impact to mental health. Government response to COVID has caused 67% of American’s reported stress.[1] Managing children’s distant/online learning contributes to 71% of stress.[2] Employers can help employees reduce stress in the workplace in several ways. Here […]
An Employer’s Guide to Remote Onboarding
Given the status of the COVID-19 pandemic, many employers have continued remote work arrangements, including recruiting and onboarding new employees. With remote work being a trending recruitment feature, onboarding a new employee remotely can be a new hurdle for employers. Here is a quick checklist to ensure a smooth remote onboarding process. Before the First […]
Background screening do’s and don’ts
Before hiring a job applicant, companies and their human resources teams take a number of preemptive steps. Chief among these is the interview process, whereby interested candidates can showcase why they would make the best fit. Once this portion of recruitment has been completed and businesses are ready to extend an offer, executives may decide to […]
California LWDA: Work Re-Verification Not Required with DACA Decision
The California Labor and Workforce Development Agency (LWDA) has announced that the Trump administration’s decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) does not require California employers to re-verify work authorization documents. LWDA DACA Work Re-Verification Statement Secretary David M. Lanier of the LWDA, has issued the following statement: “With the announcement to […]
Companies Set New Pace (and Expectations) for Transactions
Despite concerns around privacy and a recent settlement between mobile payment service Venmo and the Federal Trade Commission over consumer disclosures the agency found misleading, the popularity of mobile money services seems unlikely to suffer. The popularity of Venmo in particular – a “digital wallet” that allows users to send and receive funds via text […]
Sure Your HCM Resources Aren’t Being Wasted? Review Your Processes.
Payroll and human resources, the lines have blurred. They’re two things successful companies need, but they can also be two of a successful company’s biggest money sinks. Take payroll: If a company has employees, they need payroll processing. But payroll processing is also expensive – a survey conducted by the National Small Business Administration in […]
