Handcuff Headlines

If you’ve already logged a few hours prior to today in 2016, you are in the minority (and may be in need of an actual vacation!). But, for many, this is the first day back. Welcome.

As Jan. 1 looms, everyone is writing about the New Year’s Resolutions. However, lose weight, eat healthy and the usual have taken a backseat to a singular concept: focus. Are you ready to begin your extraordinary year?

At KRESS Inc., we encourage our employees, and our dinosaurs, to take a break and get into the holiday spirit. Beer exchanges and ugly sweater contests are fun, but if you’re not actually taking time to rest this holiday season, you’re doing yourself a great disservice. However, you’re not alone.

After weeks of productivity conversations, employers are turning the lens on their management techniques to see if they are getting the most from their employees. Now, it’s time to give the employees autonomy. This concept has been touted before, with the rise of the intrapreneur.

Happy Thanksgiving! Now, we’ve got to get there. The productivity conversation continues this week, and there is more of an impetus than ever for HR to become more productive, not busy. Can you hire as well as a machine, because in low skilled jobs, an algorithm hires as well as a person.

Productivity is all the rage right now, but should we take it with a grain of salt? Can one force productivity, or find the right app to create a life that is more productive? As we enter into the holiday season, it’s time to consider how to maintain your level of focus and productive.

Q3 is always a busy time for HR. With performance reviews and open enrollment, HR people are shuffling from one activity to another. This week, we’ve got tips on how to manage performance reviews and open enrollment as well as a piece for a bit of encouragement. EREmedia.com:

It’s Nov. 2, and the courts and legislature has been busy. This week, numerous articles have been released relating to employment, from analyses of New York’s new Ban the Box laws to new iterations on joint employment. Additionally, the 2016 employment trends reports are beginning to trickle in.

Last week, Buffer admitted they’d lost half their social referral traffic in the past 12 months. One of the reasons they postulated was because of content overload—there’s simply too much for them to read. So, today a law firm published a list of top HR blogs, and we thought we’d add a bit to it.

Performance reviews: everyone dreads them, and most of us try to sandwich the annual review somewhere between the start of the school year and the holidays. So, if you have a spate of reviews coming up, you’re not alone.

TLNT: Court Finds It Only Takes One Incident To Have A Hostile Work Environment … How can you control every employee and make a safe working environment if this is so? It’s not possible, and in this case, the courts recognize the impossible.