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How to Manage Your Workplace Distractions? Let’s be real in a nine to ten hour work day it’s hard to not get distracted at some point. Many people battle distractions throughout the day that may or may not prevent them from completing important tasks.

The kids are going back to school in less than a month. But have you been able to enjoy some time off with the family? More than half of U.S. workers left vacation days on the table in 2015. Get out and grab some rays and come back to work refreshed!

The common trend among millennials is to delay marriage and kids and instead welcome a dog into the family. Companies now are strategically allowing furry friends into the workplace in order to gain approval from their younger hires.

Where has the time gone? Millennials are no longer those kids who sit on the computer all day while fleecing their parents’ money.

No matter what you do or how you do it, you’ll encounter some form of criticism in your life, whether in the workplace or elsewhere. These moments can be some of the toughest you will face.

Right now, there is news in two wildly diverse quadrants of HR: People are either reading up on employee joy and the emotional office, or they are checking out the barrage of legal updates that will affect business owners and HR professionals. KRESS Inc.

Jim Collins famously wrote, “It’s about getting the right people on the bus, the wrong people off the bus, and the right people in the right seats.” While raw talent is a tremendous part of this conversation, employee engagement and culture have a role to play as well.

April 15—the annual tax deadline—is Friday. However, contrary to common belief and your day planner, the tax deadline this year is on April 18, 2016. You have three extra days due to Emancipation Day in Washington, D.C. If you’re in Maine and Massachusetts, you’ve got until April 19, potentially.

Every year, it’s a slight variation on the conversation when March Madness strikes—exactly how much productivity will you lose to watch time, employee brackets and gambling pools (legal, of course). March Madness actually is projected to cost employers more than Cyber Monday in productivity loss: