HR News & Insights

Sunday marked the 32nd  anniversary of National Coming Out Day. Although many members of the LGBTQ+ community may come out to their friends and family, this is often a more difficult conversation to have in the workplace. When you get to the center of it though, it...

As employers, we know that everything that happens in society affects the workplace. Politics is no exception. People are boycotting Goodyear and buying extra cans of black beans. They have bumper stickers on cars and signs in yards. They buy apparel, hats, and big...

Oddly and evenly sadly, this is not new. The current events in America could be from the 1960’s; could be Rodney King in the 1990’s; could be from any decade in our 400-year history since Jamestown 1619. Happenings in the world that may not completely or immediately...

  I admit. I fell for it. When I’m not working, not running around with baseball mom duties, or out laboring in my weed-infested flower beds (futile, by the way), I can be found hiding away on my phone checking social media. It’s my version of watching TV or...

Welcome to the second half of 2020! We made it. It’s all downhill from here…. Right? Okay, so maybe the phrase “What could possibly happen next?” has crept into your vocabulary once or twice, or “It can’t get any worse… can it?!” As I look back over the past six...

Many organizations have been criticized for their support of Black Lives Matter and other diversity related organizational statements. We as HR professionals must work on knowledge of the “real” truth of the state of diversity in our organizations. We need to look for...

For years HR folks have been caught between what we were legally required to do and what we should do. Like so many things in our profession, we were in the gray. Many business owners and HR folks looked at their EEO polices and were torn. Should we only protect the...

Here we are nearly half way through the year with one crisis after another for HR professionals. We haven’t even begun the return to work and now we have the next crisis as the nation reacts to the death of George Floyd. My HR colleague went to a local national chain...

Here we are. Working at home on another Friday. It’s hard to believe that it has been two months working this way. How do we reconcile the fact that two months ago we didn’t want employees working at home, because it wasn’t “productive”? We thought that employees...