A general guide on minimizing the cost of improving employee benefits
Employee benefits are without a doubt the single biggest means of retaining quality talent within your business. But most business owners generally do not have the insight on choosing a proper action plan to generate useful benefit plans designed to specifically help their business. Because of their lack of knowledge, they end up using plans […]
Free food benefits: A burden or an opportunity?
When it comes to employee benefits, the buzzwords usually jump off our minds are health, disability and medical insurance, retirement benefits and paid time off, to name a few. But it has been observed that in the Silicon Valley, the new norm is to provide free food to all their employees! It might make you […]
Diversity in the Videogame Industry
The video game industry contributes more than $90 billion to the world economy, that’s miles ahead of what most film industries accomplish –even going toe to toe with the likes of Hollywood. Here’s a little story to help you get an idea of its far reaches. When the critically acclaimed videogame Grand Theft Auto 5 […]
Why Your HR Team is Not the Bane of Your Existence
An effective human resources team is more than just a cog in the wheel, it IS the whole wheel. A robust HR department is integral to the efficient and coordinated success of your business and enterprise – the scale of the company has no consequence on the importance of an HR team. The bigger ones […]
Marijuana and the work place
2016 has been a great year for Marijuana advocates in the US, becoming legal (with some limitations) in 30 states. While the majority still only allow medicinal usage, recreational use is allowed in some 9 states including Massachusetts and Alaska. It is a burgeoning industry that is scheduled to post sales amounting to more than […]
Overcoming the challenge of hiring talent on low wages
Any HR team faced with hiring talented employees on minimum wages knows that it’s not really an easy task. You’re asking someone to invest their personal time on a long term basis for a reward that doesn’t really amount to anything significant. Most low wage jobs attract talent for a short duration of time, something […]
Bullying in the workplace
Lewd comments and over the top remarks are usually how racism and sexism first begin creeping into the workplace. It all starts with subtle references which might initially be open to interpretation – “perhaps he didn’t really mean what I think he meant”, “maybe I misunderstood that reference” – and you shrug aside those comments […]
Recreation at the office
\ All work and no play makes everyone a dull boy, girl, man, woman (whatever might be your preferred ‘pronoun’). The same is true for the workplace – toiling 12 hours a day, every day of the week will take its toll on even the most workaholic of employees. Your job as the employer at […]
5 tough problems that HR personnel need to be on top of
It’s very easy for us to believe that a firm’s HR department is this robotic, well oiled machine which is able to perform all of their tasks with almost perfect tenacity. Truth is, however, that they suffer from the same human weaknesses the rest of us do. This is more pertinent for smaller businesses that […]
Why your business needs an HR department
If your business is still in its cradle, it might be tempting to forego having an HR department entirely and perform some of the rather complex managerial tasks entirely on your own – tasks that usually fall in the exclusive domain of a human resource team. They spend four years acquiring a business degree studying […]
