If you have employees, you could face an employment lawsuit one day. It isn’t just something that “happens to other people.” Of course, the best way to avoid a lawsuit is not to break the law in the first place, but that doesn’t reduce your risk to zero. How you handle problem employees makes all the […]
Most HR and benefits tools sound better in theory than they feel in practice. If you work in benefits, HR, payroll, compensation, recruiting, or people ops, you know when something actually makes sense for your role — and when it doesn’t.That’s the feedback companies want before they launch. With Wynter, you review new HR and
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“Fired within 3 hours of my first shift at a fast food joint” headlined a now-deleted Reddit post. The original poster went on to explain how the day went badly. They wrote: “Went there early, dressed properly for the job which was about helping with making burgers in a fast food. They knew it’s my first
I’m the HR manager, and I report to the company president. I’ve already talked to him about the Friday 4 p.m. happy hours he hosts in the office. I told him I don’t think it’s appropriate and that it could create real liability issues — especially if someone leaves the parking lot impaired. He basically
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Amanda Taub’s New York Times piece, Actually, Democracy Dies in HR, centers on the idea that it doesn’t take a whole bunch of evil people to destroy a country, but rather just a few evil leaders at the top and a whole bunch of dummies and paperwork, and voila, the end of democracy. Clearly, the headline states, this
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One hour, 59 minutes, and 30 seconds. That’s the winning time for Sunday’s London Marathon winner, Sebastian Sawe, who did something no human had ever done before: run a marathon in an official race in under two hours. In case you were wondering, that is an average pace of 4:33 per mile or 13.16 miles per
While scrolling through X, I saw a video that made my HR blood boil. The scene is a young woman speaking with her boss through a computer screen. The boss tells her to turn on her camera. She objects, he pushes. She counters. “I’m just a bit confused. When I auto-applied through Sprout with a
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I love the idea of exit interviews in theory, as they could gather valuable data that companies could use to improve the employee experience, reduce turnover, and ultimately lower costs. But, employees on the way out the door don’t have a good reason to be honest about why they are leaving, as they need to leave on
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I got a press release proclaiming, “CEO spends over $500/month to avoid burnout!” Now, if you can tell me where I can get all that for $500 a month, I’ll be shocked. Add to that, his online bios say he lives in NYC, has “several kids,” and a wife. What is going on is he’s
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