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Recent Benefits/HR Articles

Are You Paying Your Employees Too Much?

The last thing you want to do is pay mediocre employees star-level salaries.  Read more

Giving Employees What They Want 

John Mackey, Whole Foods CEO and founder, talks about Obamacare and the benefits of salary caps.  Watch video

Tackle Big Projects Productively: 5 tips

Do you want to be highly productive when approaching a big project? Here are five insights from a Harvard expert to help you start and finish with ease.  Read more

What Your Employees Are Doing When You Think They're Working

It's Friday afternoon. Are your employees actually working? Should you care?  Read more

Just Say No to Micromanaging

Micromanagement could have a huge long- and short-term negative impact on your ability to be effective as a manager.  Read more

Get Rich Quick? That's Not Our Culture 

John Mackey, Whole Foods CEO, talks about his company's salary cap, and what that means for employee culture.  Watch video

What Should You Do About Health Care Reform? You Have 3 Choices

On January 1, 2014, the Affordable Care Act will require businesses with 50 or more full-time employees to offer health insurance. What if you have fewer tha...  Read more

'I Had to Check My Ego at the Door' 

Chinedu Echeruo talks about stepping down as HopStop CEO in 2009, four years after he founded the city transit directions app.  Watch video

Another Social Media Disaster: Should You Fire Someone for an Off-Color Joke?

What happens when an employee makes a conflict public?  Read more

Measure (and Reward) Ethical Behavior

You measure employee performance and sales. But you're forgetting to measure what matters most to overall success: ethical behavior.  Read more

6 Ways to Attract Top Talent

Even in today's economy, the most talented workers have plenty of choices. Here's how to make sure they join you, not the competition.  Read more

10 Perks Your Small Business Can Afford

Perks that make your employees happy don't have to cost an arm and a leg--really.  Read more

A Job Listing Should Be Like a Love Letter

You're not looking for generic employees. So why are you writing generic job listings?  Read more

Why I Don't Fire the Jerks

A plan of attack when the only job candidates you can find are jerks.  Read more

7 Things Your Employees Think About You (But Would Never Say)

Have you stopped to consider that your employees may talk about you the way you used to talk about your boss?  Read more

Want Smarter Employees? Quiz Them

The act of taking a test actually helps you learn. It's one more tool to help your employees be the best they can be.  Read more

The Deadly Cost of a B-Player

Here's how mediocre employees can take down a business. Don't let it happen to you.  Read more

The SHOP Is Open. Selections May Be Limited

The Affordable Care Act calls for every state to have SHOP exchanges up and running by January 2014. So far, only 17 states and the District of Columbia are ...  Read more

Why You Should Care About Hospital Culture

Let's shake up the patient-care industry. Think about hospital culture first, and patients second. Here's why.  Read more

How to Fix the Unemployment Rate

The calculation underlying the U.S. unemployment rate is broken. It needs to be corrected. Soon.  Read more

8 Most Common Complaints About the Boss

What are you doing that really drives your employees crazy? You might want to give this list a close read.  Read more

Can Body Odor Fall Under Religious Protection?

An employee's habits may be odious to you, but be careful before taking disciplinary action--they may be protected by law.  Read more

3 Keys to Business Excellence

Excelling in business isn't necessarily rocket science. In fact you just have to master these three things.  Read more

Obamacare Case Study: A Microbrewery Asks Premiums or Penalties?

Clay Robinson, owner of Sun King Brewing, says his company is weighing both options as they prepare for Obamacare.  Read more

5 Things You Need to Know About Hiring Contractors

If you're using contractors because they are cheaper than employees, you may be in big trouble.  Read more

8 Rules to Make Telecommuting Work

Culture is key at Blinds.com. But letting employees work from home is a crucial part of that maintaining that culture.  Read more

11 Easy Ways to Be Healthier at Work

Try these simple tweaks to your workday to help you get and stay healthy.  Read more

Rewrite That Boring Job Description

Want to attract the A-players to work for your business? Here's what needs to be in the job description.  Read more

The Truth About the Office Wallflower

He never speaks up in group meetings and cringes when invited to after-work happy hours. What's the problem? Maybe it's you.  Read more

Help Your Employees Get More Done

If you want happy employees, then help them do their jobs faster and better. Here's how.  Read more

Obamacare Case Study: Bring It On. We're Ready

Tusar Barik, co-founder of Maiden Media Group, says he's excited his company now has more choices under the Affordable Care Act.  Read more

It's Time to Fire the Jerks

Sometimes the best thing you can do for your staff as a whole is to fire the jerks.  Read more

The Incentives That Motivate Best Are...

...Noncash, tangible, and specific. Learn how to bring the best out of your employees.  Read more

The Stuff Strong Relationships Are Made Of

The best way to get help is to give it. But there's one other step that's just as crucial to building strong working relationships.  Read more

Why I Feel Sorry for Marissa Mayer's Baby

What sort of message is the Yahoo CEO sending to her employees -- and to the future workforce?  Read more