If a new law meant you could never hire anyone new, would that affect how you approached performance improvement plans (PIPs)? You’d probably look at performance improvement plans as tools to help employees be happy, engaged, and productive, and not as documentation for an upcoming termination. They can
My employees say they are underpaid, and the thing is, they are right. Salaries are rising, and I cannot keep up. (I’m not one of those CEOs making millions — my take-home pay is less than my vice president’s pay.) Pre-pandemic, their salaries were at market rate, and the
I (along with my brilliant jobshare partner) ran layoffs for a Fortune 100 company for several years. Our names and contact numbers went out on every single severance package, which means we handled hundreds and hundreds of calls with questions about this, that, or the other regarding the
When you interview candidates, you have many options, including behavioral interview questions. This is a popular method to help managers determine if someone will fit the job and the organization. You may wish to try them out, but what exactly are they? People understand what technical interview questions
Weekly testing, masks, or mandatory vaccinations, and who pays for the testing? The employees. Those are the critical parts of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) long-awaited Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS). Since the Whitehouse announced it in September, businesses with 100 or more employees have been sitting on the edge.
With 40 percent of Americans wanting to work full time from home and 35 percent who prefer a hybrid situation, you may need to hire remote employees just to keep your business open. Of course, you also have to manage these employees once you get them. However, you’ve
Over the weekend, a journalist working for the Associated Press, Colleen Long, reported that a Southwest Airlines pilot said “Let’s Go, Brandon” during his routine flight announcements. Also in defense of airline I was asking them to open locked cock pit and probably sounded insane! — Colleen Long (@ctlong1)
While costumes and candy are the best parts of Halloween, the spooky stories bring it all together. While lots of scary stories are fiction, sometimes what happens in an office brings whole new meaning to the term “ghosting.” Here are seven true stories about the spirits in the office, gathered from the Evil HR
