HR Tag

Many businesses are struggling with a worker shortage. It is happening across the board: staff shortages at our doctors' offices, at child care centers and at the restaurants we frequent. Businesses, their employees and their customers and clients all are unhappy and trying hard to...

In many industries, businesses are faced with managing multicultural teams. This can be challenging for many reasons ranging from unconscious bias to not understanding the cultural nuances of communicating. For example, Americans generally are very direct when they communicate. That is not necessarily true of...

Employers have free rein to determine how much vacation to offer, who is eligible, how vacation time accrues, when vacation may be used and so on, as long as they check state regulations.  However, with paid time off, or PTO, you may pay your employees...

The pandemic has thrown businesses into a never-before-seen scenario that has upended how they operate. Many businesses that were thriving before the pandemic now find themselves having to make difficult decisions, including whether to furlough or lay off employees. This task is not as simple...

  In April 2020, the Brookings Institution reported that due to COVID-19, "up to half of Americans are currently working from home, more than double the fraction who worked from home (at least occasionally)" in 2017-2018. While the pandemic is fast-tracking the telecommuting trend, for some...

March 17, 2020 We understand this is a difficult time for a lot of small businesses due to the Coronavirus (COVID-19). Please find disaster assistance information below.   SBA Disaster Assistance in Response to the Coronavirus • The U.S. Small Business Administration is offering designated states and territories low-interest...