Employee Relations

Fantasy football comes at a cost

09/16/2014

Yes, it’s a morale boost, but it doesn’t come free. Employers can expect to “pay” an employee (earning a $40,000-per-year salary) $356 in lost productivity to play a season’s worth of fantasy football on company time.

The power of the doodle

09/15/2014

The little faces, triangles and puppies you’ve been sketching all these years haven’t been for nought.

Understand Gen Y to work with them better

09/10/2014

Suspend all prejudices for a minute, and try to understand why these fresh young thinkers do what they do. It’s all about the economy.

Feds: Harrisburg leasing firms dodged payroll taxes

09/05/2014

A federal grand jury has indicted three Harrisburg area men on tax evasion charges stemming from their operation of several worker leasing businesses. The U.S. Attorney alleges that the three men paid workers more than $7 million in wages from 2006 to 2012 but never withheld or paid federal income taxes.

Is that employee lying? Here’s what to look for

09/04/2014

That colleague looking you intently in the eye as he answers your questions may be fibbing. Pamela Meyer, author of Liespotting: Proven Techniques to Detect Deception, says these are common tip-offs that someone is lying.

How to effectively manage workaholic employees

08/29/2014

Suspect you’re managing a workaholic? Here are tips to help the employee find balance, and the organization cut costs and liability.

How to do appraisals for flex-job holders

08/27/2014

What’s the best way to evaluate the work of someone who’s working where you can’t see them? Here’s good advice to pass along to your organization’s managers.

Sitting is the new smoking

08/22/2014

A new University of Southern California study says brain processing speed increases from 5% to 20% when people are standing compared to sitting.

6 steps for setting up an in-house dispute resolution system

08/20/2014

An alternative dispute-resolution program lets you identify and address problems while they’re still manageable and before they land in court. Here’s a six-step process for establishing an ADR program.

Teach employees to ask for feedback from reluctant bosses

08/19/2014

Why is employer-to-employee feedback in such short supply? The answer is simple: Managers rank it among their most difficult duties.