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Toxic Workplace Environments to Avoid!

If you’ve been in the workplace long enough, you’re likely to have a story or 20 about one horrible place you’ve experienced. We’ve found that many of those toxic workplace environments share a few basic characteristics.

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New Hire Reports Done Right
HR Best Practices

New Hire Reports Done Right

Do you know how to file a New Hire Report correctly? Our easy step-by-step guide could save you plenty of time and dollars! Download: New Hire Reports Done Right

How-to-Handle Employee Diversity in the Workplace
Company Culture

How-to-Handle Employee Diversity in the Workplace

Diversity is something that makes being an American beautiful.

Austin is the First City in Texas to ‘Ban the Box’
Compliance

Austin is the First City in Texas to ‘Ban the Box’

Austin has become the first city in Texas to pass the Fair Chance Hiring Ordinance.

Quick Tips to Get Noticed on LinkedIn
HR Best Practices

Quick Tips to Get Noticed on LinkedIn

Employees are looking to make strategic moves for a variety of reasons. Money, power, title, peace of mind, whatever it is, they will need a LinkedIn profile.

Are you Ready for Fall Hiring Season?
HR Best Practices

Are you Ready for Fall Hiring Season?

At KRESS, we want to provide the best resources for your company to make the right decision when it comes to all job related activities.

EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Leads to Changes for HR Data
HR Best Practices

EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Leads to Changes for HR Data

June 12, 2016 marked an important date for U.S. companies that have been transferring personal data to anyone in the European Union.

How Pokémon Go Can Succeed in the Business World
Company Culture

How Pokémon Go Can Succeed in the Business World

If you hang around the water cooler, you have probably experienced your coworkers discussing the new “Pokémon Go” mobile game.

Two Insightful Books to Add to Your Summer Reading List
Company Culture

Two Insightful Books to Add to Your Summer Reading List

School is out, the sun in shining, and all we want to do is relax in the air conditioning. It’s that time of the year again; to start your summer reading!

The Pros and Cons of Anonymous Reviews
Company Culture

The Pros and Cons of Anonymous Reviews

Collecting honest feedback from employees about their managers can be a challenge.

Here’s to Graduation Caps Becoming an Official Part of KRESS
Education Verification

Here’s to Graduation Caps Becoming an Official Part of KRESS

The 2016 Education Luncheon: Freedom to Learn was an incredible success this year.

News Update: The Middle Class is Shrinking Everywhere in America
Employment Benefits

News Update: The Middle Class is Shrinking Everywhere in America

Image: Washington Post Check out the chart above and look specifically at the Texas data—it tells a slightly different story from the rest of the U.S.

Do you have the right people on the bus? The Weekend Roundup
Weekend Roundup

Do you have the right people on the bus? The Weekend Roundup

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.”…

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