Adding Fuel to the MSP vs. In-house Debate
In an increasingly aggressive corporate environment where boosting revenues, minimizing expenses, and streamlining processes are critical, organizations are usually faced with an important ...
Putting People First: Using crowdsourced feedback to identify best practices amid Covid-19
Remote work has already started to feel much more natural, thanks in part to technology tools and platforms that allow us to stay in touch with our co-workers better, but establishing ...
Nearshore Staffing: A hidden treasure in your backyard
Recent posts on the Staffing Stream on nearshore staffing— highlighting the benefits it could bring to your organization and the importance of choosing the right partner — provided ...
Why Your Temps Need to Understand Your Business Values
For various good reasons, the pressure to define business values has grown immensely in recent years. For one, there’s the rising prominence of social media appraisal, with people ...
Ageism: It’s real, and needs to stop
It’s unbelievable to me that ageism has become such a big thing. What kind of crazy concept is this? But it’s true. Three in five older employees have seen or experienced age discrimination ...
Labor Takes on a Whole New Meaning for the Freelance Movement
This year, amid a global pandemic that forced us to classify work in terms of how essential it is to society, labor took on a whole new meaning. The pandemic has massively crippled ...
What the Global Crisis Taught Us About Managing the Non-Employee Workforce
At the start of 2020, no one could have predicted the unprecedented business disruption caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Immediately, for every company, business continuity planning ...
Onboarding During a Pandemic? Five Tips to Avoid the Chaos
Even before the storm of 2020 descended on us, onboarding new employees was never easy. You’ve got to sift through piles of paperwork, adhere to guidelines and follow a long checklist. ...
Four Ways to Stop the Microaggression Ripple Effect
Over the past few months, we’ve seen an increase in employees reporting what is referred to as “microaggressions.” It’s sometimes hard to describe exactly what has happened ...
Headcount Shell Game Part 2: How to fix the problem of grey spend
In my last post, I discussed the problem of rogue spend, or as I like to call it, grey spend. It’s that headcount shell game that exposes organizations not only to increased costs, ...
