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Want to Set your Business Apart From the Rest? Consider Apprenticeship
One of the most difficult challenges businesses face today is the lack of available and skilled workers to fill roles in key — sometimes even essential — industries. Through “The Great Resignation” and beyond, businesses of all sizes and in all industries have had to get creative about how they are finding employees; the[...]
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When it Comes to Your Organization’s Accounts Payable, Automation is a Question of “When” Rather Than “Why”
In times of constant change, the best way to survive as a business is to try to control what you can control. In order to shore up your business’ defenses against tough economic conditions caused by local, national and global factors, it’s imperative to stay vigilant in increasing efficiencies and in cutting overhead costs w[...]
How to Plan an All-Inclusive Business Trip
1.3 million business trips are taken in the U.S. every single day. With all of these company trips, there are a wide variety of people that are traveling for work. Unfortunately, not every employee gets the business-travel experience they deserve, primarily because their employers don’t account for their unique needs when pl[...]
Mental Well-Being & the Workplace: Embracing Suicide Prevention and Awareness Month
According to the Harvard Business Review, over the past twenty years, suicide deaths in the United States have increased by 35% with the majority of suicide deaths occurring among working-age individuals. Also alarming, Colorado ranks seventh in the nation for deaths by suicide. Because most people spend the majority of their wa[...]
Building a Company Culture of Care
From the Black Lives Matter movement to the crisis in Ukraine to gun violence in U.S. communities, companies big and small are being judged more than ever on how much (and how well) they care. This mandate to care is distinct from, yet often conflated with, the business world’s current obsession: purpose. Yet in today’s [&he[...]
How Business Leaders Can Embrace a Multigenerational Workforce
In a time where the workforce includes the four largest generations, business leaders are faced with an opportunity like none other. Even though a multigenerational workforce presents its own unique challenges, it allows employers to leverage the experiences of people at various levels in their profession and fosters a more open[...]
PNC CO Regional President Guest Commentary — The War on Talent
With so many companies now hiring, it can be a race to get a competitive, first offer out to candidates. These days, if companies don’t make an offer within two weeks of the first interview, the prospective employee is very likely to receive another offer from a competitor sooner. Retaining top talent is also more challengin[...]
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Hiring and Attracting Talent
It’s no secret that hiring is currently one of the biggest challenges facing businesses currently. More than four million people in our industry of hospitality lost their jobs through the pandemic and the estimates show that a quarter of those people won’t return to the industry. Combine this with an influx of people lea[...]
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Helping Remote Workers Avoid Work-Related Injuries
Temporary telecommuting arrangements are now permanent for many businesses, creating happy employees and new questions. One unrecognized challenge is how to keep employees safe and healthy in their home offices. You look after your workers’ safety at the office or on job sites by conducting fire drills and buying ergonomic f[...]
Ways to Save on Healthcare for Employers
When it comes to offering health benefits to employees, every employer has two primary goals: improve coverage and lower costs. Achieving those goals may help encourage a healthier workforce, while reducing absenteeism and presenteeism, both of which can sap productivity and make an employer less competitive. More importantly, [...]
What Employers Must Know About FMLA
When the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) became law in 1993, it introduced new requirements for employers. The Department of Labor oversees many workplaces to ensure that the worker rights created by FMLA are upheld. At its core, FMLA provides workers with the right to unpaid leave, a continuation of medical coverage during [...]
How to Successfully Recruit Talent Today
Finding talent and filling job positions is extremely challenging in today’s work environment. Roles that used to bring in hundreds of qualified applicants, are now barely getting attention from candidates. Because of this, many of us in human resource roles have never had to proactively source candidates. However, it’s an a[...]
