If your business operates like many companies today, you offer employees a wide range of healthcare benefits. Ideally, those benefits help meet everything from routine dental and vision needs to more urgent medical care. But one increasingly common offering remains surprisingly underused: mental health benefits. According to research from the National Alliance on Mental … [More]
The Power of Staying: What Hospitality Can Learn from a Culture Built for Change
In hospitality, we talk a lot about creating memorable experiences for our guests. But behind every great guest experience is something equally important: a team that feels valued, connected and invested in the place they choose to work. That has become increasingly challenging across our industry. Hospitality is a people business, yet retaining experienced employees and … [More]
In Person: How Working Together Fuels Creativity, Productivity, and Growth
For the first time in history, millions of workers can do their jobs from anywhere — and the result is the most contentious workplace debate in generations. Employees fight to protect their freedom. CEOs issue return-to-office mandates by gut instinct. Everyone argues, but no one has the data. Until now. Harvard-trained economists Natalia Emanuel and Emma Harrington are … [More]
Does Size Matter? The HR Mistake Costing Small Businesses Thousands
Waiting until a company is ‘big enough’ for HR can create legal, financial and operational risks long before business owners realize those risks exist.
Hiring a first employee is a milestone for any small business. It often signals growth, increased demand and a new level of responsibility. It also marks the point when the business becomes an employer, with all the responsibilities that come with that role. That is what makes Human Resources a business necessity. One of the most common misconceptions among small-business … [More]
Supporting Neurodivergent Employees Who Won’t Tell You They’re Struggling
Can employers break their cultural conditioning to ‘mask’?
As knowledge and awareness of neurodivergence improves, professional spaces begin to develop strategies to accommodate those whose brains work at a different wavelength. This was the birth of managerial ADHD training programs, more flexible scheduling policies and celebratory lines in companies' value decks about welcoming different kinds of thinkers. And yet, even now, … [More]
Make Your Benefits Investment Count: Close the Employee Knowledge Gap
New research published by the Employee Benefit Research Institute, in collaboration with Lincoln Financial, finds that many benefits-eligible employees remain financially vulnerable to unexpected medical expenses despite having access to at least some employer-sponsored benefits. The research also finds that employees reported markedly greater interest in voluntary benefits … [More]
Culture Blooming: Nurturing Workplaces Where People Grow
This book, the first to treat workplace culture like a garden instead of a construction project, offers a proven framework that transforms toxic environments into thriving ecosystems where all talent flourishes. Organizations fail when they treat culture like a construction project. They thrive when they treat it like a garden, cultivating conditions for growth rather than … [More]
Aligned: The Data-Driven Guide to Performance, Recovery, and Human Potential
This book is from the global head of human performance at WHOOP, a data-powered guide to human potential, revealing that recovery is the hidden driver of peak performance. We often equate peak performance with relentless effort — early mornings, intense workouts and unwavering discipline. But what if the true catalyst for excellence lies not in exertion but in restoration? … [More]
Why Affinity Groups Are Good for Business
It’s more than just connection
In today’s modern business landscape, many companies are looking to foster a stronger sense of connection amongst their employees and networks. In fact, 93% of employees say belonging impacts retention and engagement. As this shift toward cultural connection is happening, organizations are finding the answer in affinity groups, structured communities that connect individuals … [More]
Artificial Intelligence, Workload, and Productivity Expectations
Artificial intelligence was supposed to make work easier, but are employers generating the opposite effect?
As companies rush to integrate AI tools into daily operations, a new survey from ResumeTemplates.com reveals that 31% of workers say their workload has actually increased since AI adoption, with some reporting they’re now expected to do twice, or even four times, as much work as before. 1 in 5 Workers Say They Can’t Keep Up without AI AI has quickly become a workplace … [More]
