Today’s job seekers and employees have grown accustomed to having an incredible amount of information at their fingertips. As a result, many businesses find that failing to adequately disclose certain things negatively impacts their relationships with these parties. Take pay transparency, for example. This is the practice, or lack thereof, of a company openly sharing […]
Every company presumably wants a workforce full of engaged employees. However, is it possible for workers to be too engaged? Apparently so. A 2024 survey of 3,000 workers by employee engagement consultants Perceptyx found that 72% of respondents work to some degree throughout their vacations. As a business owner, your initial response to this might be, “Wow, […]
If you were told someone earns more than $200,000 annually, you might assume the person is a salaried employee who’s ineligible for overtime pay. However, as demonstrated in the recent U.S. Supreme Court case of Helix Energy Solutions Group, Inc. v. Hewitt, this isn’t always a safe assumption. The FLSA rules Under the Fair Labor […]
A new year has arrived. For many businesses, this means employees’ paid time off (PTO) arrangements have reset. And at companies with “use it or lose it” policies, workers have likely left a few or perhaps many unused hours on the table. It’s a growing problem. A July 2022 survey conducted by Sorbet, a provider of […]



