A Common HR Mistake that Proves Costly: Misclassifying Employees as...
What makes someone an employee and not just an independent contractor? The answer is unfortunately less than simple. Yet, failure to get it right could result in significant liability and expense.
View ArticleEmployee Misclassifications Continued: Exempt vs. Non-Exempt
Levi Strauss is in the news this week after agreeing to pay more than $1 million in back wages to a group of employees it misclassified as exempt from overtime compensation. My last post discussed the...
View ArticleEmployee Development through Reading -- Start a Book Club
I am passionate about participating in the professional development of my employees. There’s a lot that we can learn from each other and opportunities like book clubs really enrich an employee’s...
View ArticleChoosing Not to Sleep with the Enemy
I was recently asked to recount a moment in my business career that led to an epiphany about the type of executive I was going to be and I wanted to share it here as well. Would love to hear your...
View ArticleRecruiting Candidates as a Marketing Exercise
In the Silicon Valley, we’re in the middle of a “war for talent.” Many corporate leaders believe that it’s just not possible to compete with the hot tech companies who have deep pockets—folks like...
View ArticleLost in Translation
As a recently hired sales executive, I was responsible for 1,200 employees, including a major operations team located in Tokyo. I had traveled there twice previously and presented corporate plans in...
View ArticleFive Things Every Entrepreneur Should Know about HR
It’s beyond complicated – The Heath Care Reform law that passed last year is 2,000 pages long. How many entrepreneurs do you know who have read it? And that’s just one law! There are thousands of...
View ArticleFive Health Care Realities by 2015
Many business managers are already preparing for this summer’s Open Enrollment season, where they negotiate new rates with insurance providers, choose plan offerings, determine investment strategy,...
View ArticleAre You Paying the Right Price for Employee Loyalty?
Achieving your business goals depends on the strength of your team. Any entrepreneur would agree that having skilled, loyal and engaged employees helps to quickly lead a company down the path of...
View ArticleMaking Decisions around Disability Insurance
Disability Insurance is considered to be a “must have” for employers to be competitive in today’s market when it comes to attracting top talent. Highly compensated employees in fast-growing industries...
View ArticleIn the War for Top Talent, Will a Flexible Benefit Plan Work for You?
It’s no secret, successful CEOs value their employees as their company’s most important assets. In our service-focused economy, these businesses don’t have big machinery, large farms, or huge...
View ArticleGet Mad, Go Viral, And Get Results?
While I’ve seen the direct and indirect effects of social media, I’ve only really used it as an outbound communication tool – nothing really interactive. Recently, I had a shocking experience with an...
View ArticleIs Your Human Resources Department Ready For Growth?
How to go from seven to eight figures in sales without blowing up or melting down.
View ArticleMaking Employee Benefits Annual Open Enrollment a Smooth Process
As annual enrollment for employee benefits rolls around, it’s a good time to take a look at our processes and find ways to make them go as smoothly as possible. We’ll start by identifying the highest...
View ArticleHelping Managers Deal with 'Horrible Bosses'
It’s sad to say that most of us have had at least one ‘horrible boss’, and we can vividly recall the details that made that boss so awful to work with and for. The recently released movie Horrible...
View ArticleOpen Enrollment Trends Small Businesses May See in 2012
Open enrollment is a special—if slightly crazy—time in any HR generalist’s life. Our country’s current economic conditions have made the past few years’ enrollments unique. But what’s in store for...
View ArticleAge Discrimination Case Highlights Exposure Fast-Growing Companies Face
Our company recently worked with a client that was being charged for age discrimination. It’s a great example of one risk that startups can be exposed to while building their businesses. First, the...
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