All organizations can solve pay equity issues by creating or updating pay grids to factor for women-dominated roles, re-examining experience to factor for maternity leave, creating hiring and...
Posts by Ian Hopfe
Bereavement leave should be flexible and immediate, like sick days, because of things like delayed emotions, the effect of keeping busy, triggering events, and compound trauma. Below, I examine my...
Is a work situation about work/life balance, performance, or discipline?
Managers must determine whether a situation is a work/life balance challenge, performance issue, or disciplinary issue by investigating, reviewing, and defining the problem. Only then can the...
Employees hate HR because HR is treated differently, only brought in when things get bad, and is unrecognized for the battles they fight with management.
Addressing Mental Health in The Workplace as an Owner or Manager
Addressing mental health in the workplace can be done by offering competitive wages, implementing a proper employee assistance program (EAP), providing regular time off, offering internal training on...
The best way owners and managers can encourage employees at work or in the corporate world is to have an epic pizza party. Still, important planning must be done first. A pizza party alone and out of...