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In the petrochemical industry; service professionals are required to pass background checks and drug screenings before they set foot on refinery property. Meeting Exxon-Mobil compliance or any other compliance standards can seem daunting.

The 2016 Education Luncheon: Freedom to Learn was an incredible success this year. KRESS was honored to partake in the effort; offering two scholarships to deserving local students.

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.

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.

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.

Many small business owners and entrepreneurs break out in a cold sweat whenever they hear two phrases: compliance and tax season. We regularly publish on compliance, but this time we’re taking a break to focus on taxes, a bane for many Americans and offering tax tips.

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:

Welcome to the week after Employee Appreciation Day (Friday, March 4th). Now that the cake is gone, the donuts are stale and the balloons are deflated, will your moment of “employee appreciation” matter? Is a celebration what your employees need, or are they looking for something else?