Encourage your employees to work together and support one another and create opportunities for them to get to know one another outside of work. Team building events such as painting activity, axe throwing bowling, are all great ways to bring the team together.
We like to take it for granted that we receive a paycheck each pay period we have worked. Our pay stub looks simple with the pay rate, hours worked, tax and benefit deductions, gross and net earnings. Payroll processing looks straight forward and easy, and it appears that all that is needed are employees’ hours...
My first response is always: Document, document, document. It is so important to document any issues involving employees so that, should any of the issues escalate to termination, you have the proof you would need to defend your actions. I’ve gotten so many calls regarding the need to terminate an individual, but they are in...
Make sure that your company’s values are clearly communicated to all employees, and that these values are reflected in the way that your business operates. Whenever my team has a decision to make, we review our values to ensure that decision follows our values.
While I say I love shoe boxes, that is business receipts for an entire year given to me in a shoebox. It’s not difficult to organize your financial records without this organization. How do you know if you’re profitable? You don’t wanna spend your valuable time only to lose everything thing.
By Allen Smith, J. D. Quiet quitting remains prevalent, but employers should look for underlying causes rather than assuming employees are lazy, said James Reidy, an attorney with Sheehan Phinney in Manchester, N.H. Speaking Feb. 27 at the SHRM Employment Law & Compliance Conference 2023, he noted that the underlying causes for employees who work just...
Have you set your 2023 goals for your business? It’s not too late. At the end of each year, my senior management meets to review the previous year and to set our goals for the coming year. We then meet on a quarterly basis to check in to see where we stand and to make...
Employment laws are ever-changing. It’s important for small businesses to stay on top of these changes. It would be wise to have some type of HR consulting on your side. There is no forgiveness for ignorance of the laws.
Regardless of our position or tenure with our company, we are always faced with new situations, new procedures, new tools, new products. New things come automatically with the constant and inevitable changes surrounding us. How do we best approach something that’s new to us? The point I want to make is that when you do...
By Kathryn Mayer As employees continue to grapple with persistent inflation, pandemic-related concerns, mental health issues and more, they are calling on their employers for help. But a growing number of employees say they aren’t getting what they need in terms of benefits offered by their workplaces. Employees’ satisfaction with their benefits fell to 61...
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