Your HR Social Distancing Survival Guide

As you navigate the COVID-19 pandemic, are you struggling with an overload of information? Are you wondering how to fully guide your team and employees into success during this time? We’ve put together an HR social distancing survival guide in order to help you find exactly what you’re looking for.  Tips for Managing Your Remote Employees’ Performance You’re met with a new challenge of managing your remote employees. We’ve put together some tips to ensure your employees are still successful and productive even while working remotely.  Click here for our tip...

Amid all the uncertainty we’ve all been experiencing lately, business owners everywhere are met with the new challenge of managing their remote employees. Do you know how to ensure they’re still successful and productive even while working from home?  Below you’ll find our top tips for managing your remote employees’ performance:  Set clear expectations  Make sure your employees know what is expected of them while working from home. Do you expect them to work the same hours they worked while in the office? Do you require more meetings or conversations?...

As many businesses begin opening up again, we’re met with a new struggle: returning to the office after working from home for more than a month. You may be thinking, “I just learned to transition into remote working; how am I going to transition back?” The reality is that it will take some time to iron out the details and get back to working like normal - if “normal” can even exist anymore. However, we’re here to help ensure you’re set up for success.  Tips for transitioning to working from the office:  Set a new routine and plan for the unexpected.Your commut...

In a previous post, we mentioned that small business owners waste 21.8 hours each week (source: Inc. Magazine). This was reported under normal circumstances and before COVID-19 forced plenty of businesses to transition to remote working. In this new reality, now more than ever we need to ensure we’re managing our time efficiently. Here are our top time management tips for working from home.  Start with a to-do list.  This is especially helpful if your team does not utilize project management tools. Each day, outline the items you need to accomplish for work. In order to minimiz...

We’re over a month into our new reality of working from home. While some businesses are making the transition back into the office, the reality is that many will still be working from home for quite some time, or working remotely part-time.  If you’re in this for the long haul, make sure you’re setting your business up for success.  Here are our top tips for working from home: For leaders 1. Equip your team with the tools to be successful. What project management tools and communication tools are you using? If you’re not using anything to keep these item...

Could your new employee onboarding guide use some work? Maybe you don’t even have one, in which case you could be missing out on some valuable information, introductions, and planning.  It’s possible to create an organized, streamlined onboarding guide for all of your new hires. Just follow these steps.  What should onboarding include? Start off by ensuring your onboarding process includes the following: An introduction. Introduce your new employees to their new department, the company’s culture, and your business objectives. How? Through m...

There are many benefits of using a PEO (Professional Employer Organization). Along with saving you money and headaches that can come with running an HR department, they’re also available as a resource to keep you compliant and keep your operations running smoothly.  What is a PEO? A PEO is essentially an organization that partners with your company and assumes many of your employer-related HR responsibilities in order to free up time to devote to your business. They typically focus on payroll and benefits.  What are the benefits of using PEOs? Research says:...

Thanks to technology in HR, it’s possible to eliminate paperwork, save hours, and reduce the risk of human error. We’ve been collecting data for years now, but it’s time to do something with it -- and that’s where artificial intelligence (AI) and HR meet.  How HR can use AI We can use AI for: Time keeping Benefit enrollment Payroll processing Recruiting Applicant tracking So much more The goal is to save time, money, and even paper by streamlining and automating processes that we’ve been fol...

Employee wellness is vital if you want your employees to perform at their best.  Companies that prioritize wellness can expect higher retention rates, better employee performances, and an easier time recruiting. But how do you get started?  Some tips to improve wellness at work: Offer wellness benefits. Think outside the box when it comes to employee benefits and consider offering something like a gym membership or discounts on health-related expenses. Create wellness challenges. Rally your entire office together by rewarding them for completing...

Remote working has increased in popularity among businesses. In fact, in the last 5 years alone, there’s been a 44% increase in remote work (source). But is it right for your business?  We’re outlining the pros and cons of remote employees to help you make the right decision when it comes to your own business.  The pros of having remote employees Productivity. Research shows that 85% of businesses have seen productivity increase in their company as a result of the flexibility that remote working can bring.  Increased advantages in recruit...