by Caroline | Dec 31, 2014 | Company Culture, Culture, Management, People Evaluation, teamwork
Recently I said I’d be offering tips for creating a great culture for companies willing to buckle down and do so. Here’s the first one, just in time for New Year’s resolutions: Commit to spending time with your employees. Everybody knows that in every relationship,...
by Caroline | Dec 17, 2014 | Telecommuting, company culture, management
‘Tis the season when everyone’s hiring temporary workers and contractors just to help them get through the holidays and the end of the year. The mentality seems to be that as long as they’ve got warm bodies, they don’t really have to go through all the hassle of...
by Caroline | Dec 10, 2014 | Company Culture, Compensation and Benefits, Hiring, Management, Recruiting
Taking a look at the escalating premium amounts for health insurance plans, a lot of employers got a bright idea: “I don’t want to mess with group insurance anymore, it’s a pain. I think I’ll just give my employees a stipend and let them go into the marketplace and...
by Caroline | Dec 3, 2014 | Hiring, HRCompliance, Management, Recruiting
In the brouhaha about four people suing LinkedIn for allegedly violating the Fair Credit Reporting Act, people seem to be lining up either on the side of the plaintiffs–that LinkedIn has to be more careful of members’ privacy–or on the side of LinkedIn,...
