How to Reduce the Salary of Exempt Level Employees

How to Reduce Company Costs Like Employee Salaries and Payroll

Times have been tough, everyone knows that. Fortunately they seem to be improving for some companies, but unfortunately not for all companies. Some smaller companies have had to “bite the bullet” and reduce the salaries of their exempt level employees. Doing so is an alternative to common corporate payroll and wage expense reductions like  furlough, […]

Skilled Job Seekers Are Gone: How Your Company Can Adapt

3 Ways to deal with the retirement of Baby Boomer employees

The workforce is shifting from skilled job seekers and candidates to inexperienced young professionals. As Baby Boomers are considering retirement, swarms of young professionals are eager to land positions — and at 85 million strong, this will require some changes to take place in the way your organization recruits, engages, and retains these younger job […]

The Bland Strategy: Three Phrases I Hate

Employees Are Not a Mass of Humanity

Tell me if you haven’t heard one of these lines at some point in your career: “This will never work at our company.” “Our managers won’t have a use for that.” “Our employees aren’t technically savvy enough for that.” Second verse same as the first… I Can’t Stand Bland and Blandness The first thing that […]

It’s the #SHRM12 & #notatSHRM Carnival of HR

The Popular Twitter Hashtag for The SHRM Conference

While you are packing your picnic baskets and shopping for sparklers, I’m slaving away on America’s Independence Day putting the latest edition of the Carnival of HR.  It’s not as bad as it sounds as I’m serving up this Carnival of HR near the sandy beaches of San Diego where me and my family are […]

Respect the Work. Retain the Linchpin. Motivate Employees.

Work, the Linchpin Employee and How to Retain them

Work. All day long, we all engage in it. It plays such a significant role in our lives. It’s how we express who we are and how we support our families. Our movies, televisions, and mobile devices are covered with it. So why is something so significant treated so carelessly? If you believe that work […]