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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.

Kayla Bell

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Employee Engagement

By: Kayla Bell
August 28th, 2023

The 2020s have been a stressful decade for everyone, from the Quiet Quitting trend of 2022 to the slew of high-profile layoffs in 2023. All of this uncertainty has had a big impact on employee engagement.

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By: Kayla Bell
July 13th, 2023

When you’re building a team of HR professionals, the most important quality to look out for is trust.

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By: Kayla Bell
June 29th, 2023

Business process outsourcing is so common these days that most of us barely think about it. Around 66% of U.S. businesses rely on outsourcing partners to manage everything from accounting to logistics to marketing.

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Total Rewards | Employee Relations

By: Kayla Bell
August 1st, 2022

As consultants, we at Helios HR are big advocates of performance management. Performance Management encompasses planning for:

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Total Rewards | Benefits | Leave Administration

By: Kayla Bell
July 6th, 2021

Compliance is often the greatest challenge when administering your company's leave policy. Employees are entitled to time off in certain circumstances, such as family emergencies, jury duty, military service, or dealing with a medical issue. But the leave laws that grant these rights are a complex mish-mash of local, state, and federal legislation.

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Total Rewards | Benefits | Employee Relations

By: Kayla Bell
June 23rd, 2021

It seems like everyone I speak to these days is seeing a spike in requests for PTO leave, parental leave, FMLA, and the like. After a year of lockdown, it makes sense that people are now jumping at the urge to take some time off. And, if the requests haven’t started coming in yet, everyone on your team will need time off in the future, whether it’s planned vacation time or an unplanned absence due to personal circumstances. Yet, despite the ubiquity of this task, leave administration can be one of the most complex processes to manage in HR when you have a large employee population.