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My generalists always used to complain because I made them personally collect time cards for their groups. It wasn't that I thought it was a good use of their time but everybody knew them and had at least one weekly non- threatening interaction with someone from HR. A lot of questions got answered during...

I have to agree with your article. As a former vice president of human resources, building trusting relationships with our internal customers was a challenging task. Although I tried to create an unconventional team that was knowledgeable and friendly, employee perceptions of HR from prior companies was...

The market is in turmoil with no end in sight, which no doubt is raising questions and anxiety among employees.

Hoo, boy! From the "how-can-that-be?" files, new survey results from the Spectrem Group reveal that one in 10 plan sponsors (thankfully, a minority) believe they pay no fees for their retirement plan. If plans sponsors don´t know about these fees, how can they educate investors who need desperately...

For hiring managers: Who needs costly background check products when there´s MySpace and Facebook? CareerBuilder finds that 22% of hiring managers use social networking sites to check up on potential employees, up from 11%; in 2006. For job hunters: Clean up your online presence; 34% of respondents...

Guess what? Poor working conditions are bound to adversely impact your mental state and health, shows new data in a report from the World Health Organization.

The latest issue of Health Affairs features an article that the key to reforming the nation´s health care system is not a red solution or blue solution, but rather a purple solution that blends the best components of Barack Obama´s and John McCain´s proposals. Read the full article here (as well...

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has released a new guide for employers on applying Title 1 of the Americans with Disabilities Act. In other ADA news, the Senate recently passed amendments to the law, designed to counter Supreme Court decisions that ruled that people with certain ailments were...

Two surveys out this week show HR/benefits managers have some PR work to do among employees at their companies.

Pay is only one part of the total compensation picture so comparing pay only is not looking at the entire salary. There are other factors too that make salaries vary per environment. For instance a personal handling HVAC in a hospital environment is different than HVAC in an office atmosphere. Looking...