The Great Compromise: Return-to-Office Gains Steam

As the COVID-19 pandemic recedes further into the rearview mirror, business leaders and HR professionals find themselves navigating the next great challenge: bringing employees back to the office. Many companies are at... Read more »

HR Technology Takeaways from the SHRM23 Expo

​In “Making HR Tech Easy,” work tech expert Tim Sackett, SHRM-SCP, makes complex HR technology understandable for all HR professionals, because having a high competency in HR technology is critical to moving... Read more »

The 15-Minute Meeting

​Few people, from the summer intern right up to the boardroom elite, like workplace meetings. Case in point: Billionaire Mark Cuban once told Inc. magazine, “The only way you’re going to get... Read more »

Pennsylvania Legislature Seeks to Refine Equal Pay and Antidiscrimination Laws

​The Pennsylvania legislature is considering measures that would expand the state Equal Pay Law and the Pennsylvania Human Relations Act (PHRA). The following is a summary of the latest developments. Senate Bill... Read more »

Filling Manufacturing Jobs Requires Creativity, Partnerships, Image Reboot

?Factories are falling short of skilled workers. Half of the 4 million U.S. manufacturing jobs that likely will be needed over the next decade are expected to go unfilled unless workers from... Read more »

5 Tips for Closing Benefits Communication Gaps

?As employee benefits open enrollment season looms, HR professionals will be spending a lot of time and resources to create and send messages to employees about benefits plans. Yet, many of these... Read more »

Companies Are Investing in Tech for Employees with Vision and Hearing Loss

?July is Disability Pride Month, in commemoration of the signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) on July 26, 1990. This month promotes disability awareness and aims to increase the visibility... Read more »

Strategies to Support Working Parents of Children with Developmental Disabilities

?Maintaining a healthy work/life balance is a challenge for many employees. But for Kay Lee Mynatt, it’s a necessity. She is the mother of two children. Her youngest son, Spencer, 1, has Down... Read more »

HR Internship Leads to CHRO Role

?You never know where a chance encounter might lead. For Josh Gottesman, SHRM-SCP, a lucky meeting led to an internship at age 27 that, nine years later, propelled him into his current... Read more »

A Vexing Problem

?At a tech conference last fall, Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced his desire to increase the company’s productivity by 20 percent. Pichai offered an example of how he would accomplish this goal:... Read more »