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Everyone likes to have a little fun in the workplace. However, even well-intentioned jokes can go sideways. Often, we don’t know about others’ sensitivities, life experiences, hidden disabilities, or phobias. Jokes and pranks tend to bring these out into the open. 

More than 45 years after the passage of the Pregnancy Discrimination Act (PDA), pregnant and nursing employees still face challenges in the workplace. This is particularly true in professions that require physical activities that may pose difficulty to employees during some stages of pregnancy. Likewise, nursing...

Due to the pandemic, many organizations began the move to more virtual operations, which included consulting engagements. With the pandemic mostly behind us, employers continue to revise standards for what their workforce will look like moving forward. Although your workplace may now have resumed in-person or...

As an HR professional, I spent years working my tail off to prove my value, prove that HR was an important department, prove that HR was needed. I was probably about 10-15 years into my HR career before I had a light bulb moment that changed the way I viewed my role as an HR professional. I was at a SHRM conference...

The fall and winter holiday season can be a special time for many. People often look forward to the food, music, decorations, and gathering with family and friends. However, when it comes to holidays in the workplace, there are some pitfalls that employers should be careful to avoid.

Before 2020, many employers reserved remote work for only rare or occasional circumstances. When COVID-19 hit, remote work became, in many ways, the most critical policy in HR’s arsenal for keeping their organizations from failing. Even as employees have started returning to work, COVID and the economic forces...

By now, you’ve probably heard the term “quiet quitting.” If you’re anything like me, it’s been hard to avoid hearing about quiet quitting over the past month – stories about the workplace trend have been all over LinkedIn, NPR, the Economist, and the Wall Street Journal. There is even a Wikipedia page about it.

A disconnect at the leadership level of an organization can result in misaligned goals and decreased productivity that will trickle from the top down. An organization’s leaders have the responsibility to set expectations. Still, since this is a significant undertaking and they often have a busy work schedule,...

Hybrid cars are not the only newest fad—so are hybrid jobs, especially in small to mid-sized businesses. A hybrid job is when an employee is expected to spend a portion of their day or week performing duties that aren’t traditionally included in their primary job. For example, an employee might spend 50% of their...

The What and Why of Succession Management Did you know that we are living through a time of great workforce upheavals? There are some significant forces underway that employers should not ignore.