In the movie “The Intern,” the staff of Anne Hathaway’s booming online fashion website are taken back by Robert De Niro’s over the top business attire. In fact, the crisply ironed handkerchief he keeps peaking just out of his pocket becomes almost a character in and of itself as he loans it out to various […]
When Covid-19 emerged way back in Spring, few could have imagined that it would still be hanging around this long into summer. But alas, here we are in August, five months later, with numbers still climbing in select regions and government officials warning us that we still need to hunker down and do our part […]
Way back when, we wrote a blog post highlighting three common inclusions in help wanted ads that may be hindering your candidate searches. Today, we’d like to build upon that early posting and identify a few more potential pitfalls that can derail your efforts to attract star talent to your company: Vague or trendy job titleWe […]
When that work phone pings, it’s highly likely that your employees reflexively open up that email and see if it’s something that they can address right here, right now. But could this “available at all hours” attitude be causing your employees harm? In one study published in 2018, researchers found that answering emails round-the-clock led to […]
In a previous blog posting, we profiled a study which found that non-compete agreements may actually decrease motivation and performance. In fact, the study led the experts at the Harvard Business Review to note that such agreements result in a “drop in performance [that] may be more damaging to companies than the actual loss of the […]
If you’ve been reading here for a while, you’ll recall that we’ve talked a lot about how millennials and the new generation Z (which includes those born between 1996 and 2012) are poised to transform the work place with their command of all things tech and desire to make the world a better place. However, […]
As the temperature rises, in offices across the US, so do the hemlines. Having a summer dress code to accommodate the warmer weather often raises the temperature of your HR professionals as they prepare to tackle many uncomfortable conversations. In a previous Abel HR blog posting published years ago, we highlighted a Biz Journals version […]
After months of searching, you have finally found the right person for the job. You are eager for them to get started and are confident they will hit the hit the ground running and be up to speed in no time…Until they don’t. Is there anything you could have done to prevent this? Or, even […]
In this blog’s infancy, we discussed a question that comes up regularly as we talk to clients, which is, do I have to pay my employees overtime? As with all things, where both federal and state guidelines apply, the answer isn’t all that clear cut, but in the following blog, we’ll do our best to […]
For many of us, 2020 was the year that we got to learn how to work remotely whether we liked it or not! Learning how to do it and mastering the skill of working from home are two completely different as anyone who is still struggling to make it work can attest! In this blog […]
