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The most popular company policies
Most employee handbooks include policies like anti-discrimination, confidentiality, code of conduct and attendance. Though those...
Holacracy after the hype: lessons for business
It has often been tough to separate Holacracy from its accompanying hype. The alternative management system, meant to distribute...
The dishonest myth of work-life balance
There are some truly bad ideas that are nonetheless born survivors. The notion of “work-life balance,” popularized in the 1980s,...
Why parental leave laws aren’t working
If we want to have a workforce in the future we need to have children. The necessity to create tomorrow’s employees means today’...
Strategies for building an inclusive workplace
An inclusive workplace makes a difference for more than half of all employees who currently hide aspects of their identity at wo...
How to foster workplace diversity
Diversity is generally accepted as an asset to modern teams. Research has shown that it can result in greater innovation and mar...
How to get employees to actually take vacation
A vacation? What’s that? In 2015, more than half of American workers didn’t use all of their paid vacation days. In comparison, ...
How to calculate employee turnover rate
People usually include voluntary resignations, dismissals, non certifications and retirements in their turnover calculations. Th...
How to create a retirement benefit plan
As your company grows, providing a comprehensive and competitive benefits package becomes more important. A retirement benefit p...
The 15 unsung heroes of the modern workplace
We spend the majority of our lives at work and yet most of us know almost nothing about how the modern workplace came to be as i...
What a year in a coworking space can do for your company
We had just three employees in Boston when we opened, so we rented one small office in a large coworking space. Today we have ne...
How to scale your distributed team
Technology has advanced to the point that remote working no longer conjures the image of freelancers in pajamas. Thanks to high-...