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Timely blog posts by HR and Recruiting consultants responding to every day questions, hot topics and compliance-related news as it relates to attracting, engaging and retaining talent.

Ber Leary

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Business Management & Strategy | Employee Relations

By: Ber Leary
June 29th, 2022

Employees often shiver when they hear the words “performance management”. It evokes images of stuffy meeting rooms, where you feel like you’re in high school again as a manager looks over your file and assigns you grades.

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By: Ber Leary
June 15th, 2022

Your Human Resources team has one core function: to ensure that you've always got the right people in the right place at the right time. But what happens when you don't have the right people in HR? Or when a key member of your HR team becomes unavailable?

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By: Ber Leary
May 3rd, 2022

According to the CDC, American businesses lose around 200 million workdays every year due to employee mental health. The estimated cost of this problem is anywhere up to $44 billion, making it a huge issue for every employer.

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Best Practices | Organizational culture

By: Ber Leary
April 28th, 2022

When you turn on the TV or check social media these days, it seems filled with nothing but bad news. Sometimes I can feel these current events linger in the back of my mind while I'm trying to work, and it will shift my mood for the day. And I thought, if that is happening to me and I'm not directly impacted, it's likely happening to other team members and perhaps on even more varying levels.

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Employee Relations

By: Ber Leary
January 20th, 2022

Staff turnover is a cause for concern at any time. But, in 2021, concern turned to widespread panic as quit rates soared across the country. This phenomenon reached such proportions that it earned a nickname: The Great Resignation.

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Total Rewards

By: Ber Leary
January 18th, 2022

Last year saw one of the most unexpected Total Rewards trends in recent memory. Remote working, which employers had hastily adopted during the pandemic, suddenly became a must-have benefit for employees.