by Caroline | Feb 4, 2015 | Company Culture, Culture, Hiring, Management, Non profit HR, teamwork
So here in Austin it seems it’s a part of the community culture for folks to complain about how much better things used to be before the city grew so much. How there used to be no traffic and there were all these other great eateries and Willy Nelson or Stevie...
by Caroline | Jan 28, 2015 | Compensation and Benefits, Hiring, HRCompliance, Labor Law, Management, Non profit HR
House Republicans have filed suit over the Affordable Care Act last week, the most recent of many filed against the ACA by opponents of the law. Meanwhile, the dates and numbers for various ACA compliance issues keep changing and it just seems like it would be easier...
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,...
by Caroline | Nov 5, 2014 | Hiring, People Evaluation, Recruiting
There is one flaw I see most commonly among people interviewing candidates for a job: They don’t interview, they talk! They spend so much time talking at the candidate that by the end of the interview they’ve actually learned very little about him. The whole point of...
by Caroline | Oct 15, 2014 | Company Culture, Compensation and Benefits, Hiring, Management, Recruiting, teamwork
It was quite a little hailstorm Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella set off, saying women should not ask for raises, but just let the system reward them when it was time. It got me thinking about the recent meeting I had with a tech entrepreneur hiring his first employees...
