Employee engagement

Small firms across the U.S. are facing persistent vacancies or turning away customers because they lack enough staff in a tight job market.

Issues facing the coffee chain have changed since the company’s founding as it has expanded across the U.S. with thousands of stores, forcing it to confront thorny societal problems like the racial divide, opioid abuse and homelessness.

These smart tools make benefits easier to use and administer.

The benefits management platform and services provider says the new offering will help employees feel more aligned with the company’s success.

The fast food chain will award $14.5 million in scholarships to more than 5,700 workers during the 2018-19 academic year.

Lattice, PerformancePro and Trakstar are among the tools HR managers can use to track employee progress.

People with data science bona fides are among the most sought-after professionals in business, with some data science Ph.Ds commanding as much as $300,000 or more from consulting firms.

Introducing more software and more robots into the workplace introduces very real problems of training and retraining, but there will always be more work to be done.

Tracie Sponenberg, human resources exec for The Granite Group, explains how she helped her 500-employee company modernize its system capabilities.

Lattice, PerformancePro and Trakstar are among the tools HR managers can use to track employee progress.