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If your organization isn’t building relationships with local businesses by offering employee discounts, now’s a great time to start.  Especially with the growing war for talent, businesses can introduce discounts as a high-impact, low-cost employee benefit. Employee discounts are a great way to show employees you’re always looking for ways to improve their experience. You […]

Unbridled Talent and DisruptHR CEO Jennifer McClure stopped by HR Break Room at SHRM19 to speak with hosts Caleb Masters and Tiffany Gamblin about how to become a go-getter by disrupting HR with technology.

According to a 2018 report, Mercer found that $250 billion is being lost annually by American businesses due to employees’ financial stress. Employees spend between 12 and 15 work hours each month thinking about or working on their money issues — time they’re not spending doing the work employers pay them to do. (Learn more […]

Thirty years ago, the executive suite didn’t spend a whole lot of time wondering whether their employees could pay the bills. The attitude: We pay you and it’s up to you to decide how to spend that money. Today, companies are confronted with the reality that not only are 78% of their employees living paycheck […]

Under a pay-for-performance system, employees get rewarded for the right reason: job excellence. Paying for performance removes the subjectivity from compensation by establishing structured ways to measure an individual’s: performance productivity results How? Instead of showing you, we’d like to tell you a story … Meet William Every company has a William. Ever the go-getter, […]

In 2015, Gravity Payments, a Seattle-based credit card processing firm, tried something unorthodox: Chief Dan Price set a new minimum salary of $70,000, even sacrificing some of his own to make it happen. It made national news. Résumés poured in. But this seemingly heroic gesture also had unexpected consequences: Two of Price’s most valued employees […]

Brown & Connery LLP partner Louis R. Lessig joins HR Break Room hosts Caleb Masters and AJ Griffin at the SHRM 2019 Conference and Exposition to review the latest developments in the proposed FLSA rule.

If you own, operate, lead or otherwise run a restaurant, you’re well aware of the operational challenges of employee turnover. But can you quantify just how much it costs your restaurant? For years, the Bureau of Labor Statistics has reported turnover in the accommodations and food service sector at roughly 72%. The average cost of […]

With 550 employees, the company was throttled by inefficient, paper-based processes, until Paycom helped the HR team put the brakes on manual timecard punches, handwritten paychecks and more. 

Like Jim Halpert constantly pranking Dwight Schrute on TV’s popular show The Office, employees can push the limits when engagement is low. Though it’s been noted time and again, another mention can’t hurt: Gallup estimates disengaged employees cost U.S. companies up to $550 billion in productivity per year. But what can be done about the […]

In a December 2023 updated report, Ernst & Young (EY) found the average cost per manual data entry made by an HR professional increased to $4.78. Read about EY’s latest findings for more information.   Performance management. It sounds like just another set of tasks on an HR professional’s to-do list. Which it is. But […]

Summer means sunny weather, longer days, exciting vacations … and can mean checked-out employees. Wait one (very hot) minute? Sure, your employees might be distracted by thoughts of sandy shores or how to keep their kids busy between summer camps, but with the right communication, the season doesn’t have to be a drain on productivity. […]