With HR becoming more challenging and time-consuming for small employers, many have chosen to explore outsourcing solutions such as professional employer … Read more
Ready to Leave Your PEO? Here’s a Look at the Benefits and Challenges
Employee benefits and perks are critical in the fight to attract and retain top talent, especially for small and mid-size companies looking to scale. In … Read more
Near-Sourcing For IT Is Gaining Momentum
Consumers demands are changing. Today, people expect more and more from the companies we do business with. This trend is largely attributed to advancements … Read more
Investing In Your Employees Can Help Your Small Business Succeed
Small businesses are some of the most vital players in the business community, but they often fail. The Bureau of Labor Statistics says one in five … Read more
Outsourced HR: Big Benefits for Small Businesses
For eight years, Mickey Swortzel, founder of vehicle control systems start-up New Eagle, watched her employees’ health-plan costs steadily increase. … Read more
When Outsourcing the Workforce Goes Terribly Wrong
Some time ago, my dad was unemployed and picking up contract work when it was made available to him. In order to procure this contract work, he had to sign … Read more
How to Pay a Headhunting Fee in 15 Easy Steps
I hear statements like this all the time: “Ugh, I don’t want to pay a headhunting fee!” I know this is because corporate HR folks think that … Read more
4 Good Reasons You Should Re-Think HR Outsourcing
As far as the new trend of outsourcing professional work goes, I’m not a big fan. I don’t believe HR should outsource strategic work such as … Read more
The Ultimate in Outsourcing, or HR’s Ultimate Nightmare?
I read a story the other day that made me shake my head and think “there is no limit to human creativity.” The story is about “Bob” — a (nameless) … Read more
More on the Fired Lifeguard: Is It Simply a Parable About Outsourcing?
That story last week about the young Florida lifeguard who was fired for going to save someone out of his area seemed to get a lot of people talking. One … Read more
Does The Future of Work Involve Crowdsourcing? Let’s Hope Not
I’m a big fan of the free market. I like negotiating deals, making money and buying services and deals in a voluntary, open market. You don’t … Read more
50 Ways to Leave Your Lover, or One Way to Really Piss Off an HR Pro
Sorry, I don’t actually have 50 ways to piss off an HR Pro. Well, let me take that back. I could easily come up with 50 ways to piss off an HR Pro, but you … Read more
Oh Canada! Getting Tough on Permits for Americans Working in Canada
By Shannon Stevenson Gone are the days when an employer could send its U.S. citizen employees to the Canadian border with a passport and a simple … Read more
Labor Department Targets Employers Using the H-1B Visa Program
By Shanon Stevenson The U.S. Labor Department continues to target non-compliance by employers using the H-1B program to employ foreign nationals to work in … Read more
HR is Still a Pink-Collared Ghetto
I planned to write this last September, so let’s pretend that I did rather than wondering why I didn’t. It’s a critically important topic, and I hope that … Read more
Weekly Wrap: Best Buy and ROWE – Yes, Flex Work Works, at Least For Them
Remember that flexible schedule work initiative over at Best Buy, known as ROWE, or results oriented work environment? My TLNT colleague and HR pro Lance … Read more
Weekly Wrap: Social Media in the Workplace, Legal Outsourcing, Bungled Layoffs
Think the battle for acceptance of social media in the workplace is over? Think again. “With social networking exploding,” The Miami Herald reports, “at … Read more
Weekly Wrap: Jobs That Won’t Get Outsourced, and Rock Hard Abs or Work-Life Balance?
You don’t hear as much about outsourcing these days – and that’s a relief for anyone like me who has had the unmitigated joy of getting routed to a United … Read more
Just What the Heck is “RPO,” Anyway?
RPO is the latest HR industry buzz word (or if you’re nit-picky, buzz acronym; it stands for recruitment process outsourcing). All the cool kids are … Read more
I Hope the EEOC Listened: Employment Credit Reports Have Value
This week, the EEOC held hearings to “explore” whether employers should be allowed to review a job applicant’s credit report before making a hiring … Read more