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Our Take on Topics & Trends for Business Success
The Employee Handbook: An Unexpected Place to Reinforce Culture and Set the Workplace Tone
The employee handbook: most employees consider it to be a dry, just-the-facts document solely aimed at describing work procedures and benefits packages. And growing numbers are claiming not to read them at all. Increasingly, companies are bucking the “TL;DR” trend by...
Use These Employee Incentive Ideas to Boost Morale and Motivate Your Team
Have you heard about the perks enjoyed by Silicon Valley employees? From free lunches to on-site massages to lucrative stock options, big tech firms offer blockbuster incentives to recruit and retain employees. But you don’t have to be a billion-dollar company to...
Embracing Diversity in the Workplace Without Creating Divisions
In the hit sitcom, “The Office,” bumbling Dunder Mifflin manager Michael Scott attempts to educate his staff about diversity in the workplace by making them pick an index card with a different ethnicity on it and pretend to greet each other with the stereotypes of...
Why You Can’t Skip the Employee Exit Interview
Exit interviews are sometimes treated in a cursory fashion, but they can yield helpful feedback on why good employees leave and how an organization can improve. While it’s tempting to overlook this final step in a worker’s employment, there are several reasons why...
Key Considerations for Your Leave of Absence Policy
Employees request a leave of absence for myriad reasons, including having a baby, bonding with a newly adopted child, recovering from a serious illness or caring for a sick family member. Some of these types of extended leaves fall under the Family and Medical Leave...
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