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Employee experience
Believe it or not, keeping your employees engaged and happy is essential in hiring top talent. Utilize these resources to create the best experience for your employees and you’ll be sure to see the payouts for your efforts.
What does the future of work look like?
This is part one of a series of blog posts pulled from our extensive New World of Work 2022 Survey Report. Here, we provide a qu...
When onboarding goes bad – and how to fix it
'Worst onboarding experiences' sounds like a great topic – one that would have lots of fabulous stories. So I asked my readers, ...
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...
Workplace horror stories we wish were not real
When we were kids, we used to share scary stories with our friends. And, more often than not, we would exaggerate a little bit (...
Announcing The New World of Work, two years on: A 2022 worker survey
On Aug. 4, 2020, eventual Pulitzer Prize-winning COVID-19 journalist Ed Yong wrote in The Atlantic: “Normal led to this.” The qu...
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...
What is employee onboarding and how to get it right
Onboarding is the process of integrating new hires into the workplace, helping them understand their work environment, company c...
Starved for talent? Support the freelance lifestyle at your work
In today’s labor crisis, SMB employers should take a lesson from the rapidly growing number of freelancers. You can attract qual...
INFOGRAPHIC: Mental Health across the ages
Mental health isn’t just a hot topic now – it has always been an issue. Our survey found that nine out of 10 respondents have ex...
9 types of workplace culture: evolve your company mindset
After three years (and a few post-pandemic months) of pouring through health, behavioral science and business research, analysts...
Get ahead of the problem: establish a proactive management strategy
Consider this situation: It’s the end of a long day, you’re tired, you’re hungry, and you want to get home. Your gas gauge is ho...
Ask the Evil HR Lady: Workplace tensions after Roe v. Wade overturned
This is the first of a new monthly series in which The Evil HR Lady addresses a HR question or challenging situation. This month...