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Is career development good for employee retention in SMBs?
Struggling to retain your top workers in your company? The traditional methods of competitive salaries and benefits are no longe...
Killer phrases in HR: don’t use them, or you’ll erode trust
The Evil HR Lady looks at how certain boillerplate phrases used by HR professionals can erode trust and confidence among employe...
Why money alone can’t buy happiness at work
While higher salaries are often equated with job satisfaction, recent studies challenge this notion. Despite earning less, self-...
How inclusive is your return-to-office strategy?
Returning to office? Your strategy may impact different employees in different ways. Learn from Workable's Content Strategy Mana...
The Weird Al leadership playbook: Lessons for Elon Musk
Who could be more different than Elon Musk and “Weird Al” Yankovic? Yet both are in the news, Yankovic because of his new parody...
Implementing an alternating four-day workweek: how & why
When the pandemic hit, we at Service Direct, like countless other businesses around the world, quickly found ourselves trying to...
Call it what it is: ‘Fawning’ – and have the courage to intervene
Here, Dr. Robyne Hanley-Defoe discusses the fourth of the four stress responses – fawning – and talks about ways in which you ca...
How to support your employees during a crisis
Russia invaded Ukraine, and Ukrainian lives changed forever. Work had to stop, soldiers and civilians mobilized, people evacuate...
Employers’ top wins and lessons of 2021 – and what they’re planning for 2022
It may be that hindsight is always 2020. Except it isn’t, because 2020 has kind of spilled over into 2021 – in other words, the ...
Auditing to improve the HR workflow
Auditing is a critical part of any business, but most of us think about financial auditing when the term is brought up. All corp...
Post-COVID tech talent: the gap and the bridge
It's true that with great power comes great responsibility. Under normal circumstances, it’s also true that with great responsib...
The Great Discontent – mid-sized businesses especially take note
The Great Resignation has arrived. Powered by the easing of pandemic pressures and driven by the discovery that employees don’t ...