If your team is working remotely in some capacity, remember you most likely still have a responsibility to provide a safe workplace. Obviously this is somewhat difficult when employees are working from home! A good solution is to conduct a Health & Safety Audit for your remote or telecommuting employees. This is essentially a checklist […]
With more team members working from home now than ever before, you might well be wondering how you can do end-of-year rewards and recognition, or really any type of employee recognition. Employee satisfaction and motivation should always be top of mind for managers and HR leaders, but this is even more important when employees are […]
The COVID Pandemic has had many impacts but one important theme is the way it has catapulted huge numbers of companies into the realms of remote work – many of whom would never have allowed working-from-home otherwise! For many companies, remote work is a brand new world that we are still feeling our way through. […]
If you manage a team of people, you’ll soon realize that having a structured way of storing employee information is essential. A spreadsheet might suffice for a while, but once you get more people and more complexities in who you want to have access to different types of information, a Human Resources Information System (HRIS) […]
The Covid-19 virus has had many impacts on individuals, but one theme we’re consistently hearing from the companies we speak with is that there is unlikely to be a “return to normal”. Most companies were required to adopt work from home arrangements due to the pandemic, but now that the initial roadblocks have been overcome, […]
As employees begin to return to the office after many weeks of being forced to stay-at-home, questions are brewing as to how to best manage the return to work. So many things have changed and the situation is far from clear. You might think that it’s a scary time to be in HR, and while […]
There are many benefits associated with conducting regular performance reviews. In fact, performance reviews or performance appraisals are one of the most underused and misunderstood management tools available. Particularly in small businesses, performance reviews tend to be postponed or neglected in favor of more urgent matters. This is especially true as often, neither the manager […]
Workplace safety isn’t just a checklist of rules and regulations. Instead, workplace safety is an intrinsic part of ensuring your business’ success. Here’s how to think about safety issues and some practical steps to implement…
Is simple HR even possible? If you’ve worked at a big corporation, you might think not! But smaller companies just don’t have the luxury of employing a large HR team. Often, the responsibilities of HR are just one part of someone’s role, or there might be a very lean HR team consisting of just a […]
