Everyone’s heard the stereotypes about Millennials: they’re entitled, they’re killing off industries, they’re apathetic, and they’re addicted to social media. None of these sound like good employees to have on your workforce. However, the truth about Millennials is actually very [...]
No one likes firing employees. It’s a difficult decision, but any HR manager or business owner will eventually have to make the choice to do what’s best for the company. While it’s important to give problem employees a chance to [...]
The best asset of any company is the employees. While employees leave for a wide variety of reasons, pay is a major cause of employee turnover. Employees who feel that they aren’t valued by the company or paid enough for [...]
While there are a lot of important questions to ask in an interview, there are also some questions that you shouldn’t ask. You may want to find out as much as you can about your prospective employees, but the Equal [...]
Sometimes good employees leave. Maybe they had a job offer they couldn’t refuse. Maybe family circumstances required them to leave or to move somewhere else. Whatever their reasons, now you have to look for a replacement, who will have some [...]
Feedback is important. It’s how employees know that they’re doing a good job. It’s also how they know there are areas in which they need to make changes. Both praise and constructive criticism can help improve both their motivation and [...]
Not everyone takes the time to call a prospective employee’s references. Many feel that the resume and work experience speak for themselves. Others just may not have the time and consider checking references to be optional. But references can actually [...]
Employee turnover costs companies thousands. There’s the cost of lost productivity, recruitment, hiring, and training. But what can a company offer to keep employees from leaving? Employees stay or go for a variety of reasons, but what benefits a company [...]
Now that the dangers of smoking are more widely known, sitting all day has been hailed as the new smoking. A sedentary lifestyle has adverse effects on your health. However, as computer usage has risen, so have the number of [...]
There isn’t much that demotivates an employee faster than having a bad boss. Chances are good that, at some point in your career, you’ve had a manager that made you want to quit. In fact, in the U.S., the top [...]
