Predictive employee scheduling regulations aim to improve scheduling practices for part-time and shift workers. Businesses with fluctuating staffing demands often use ‘just-in-time’ employee scheduling. The instability wreaks havoc on the lives of the lowest paid employees in the workforce. These are the people most likely to be living paycheck to paycheck while juggling two or…
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Desktop vs mobile device usage tipped in favor of mobile a couple years ago. And mobile device users overwhelmingly prefer working in apps rather than browsers. Last year, users spent nearly 90 percent of their time on apps when using software on their mobile device. Both of these shifts were predicted but they happened sooner…
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Your employee handbook is an official declaration of your company’s policies. As such, it can be an important legal safeguard. It helps prevent FLSA and discrimination violations and it can protect you in intellectual property disputes. Your employee handbook should: Provide mandated notifications Outline company policies in detail Reinforce a culture of compliance Ensure supervisors…
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Human Resources gets a bad rap at many companies. Some consider the admin staff as paper pushers who get in the way of legitimate profit-generating activities. There are those who go so far as to say that most businesses could eliminate the entire department and be better off for it. I am not sure how…
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Are you an entrepreneur who manages your enterprise with phone apps? There are excellent apps for every business process imaginable. Some business owners with a small team overlook employee scheduling apps. They don’t believe they need one yet. When you think about, you are already using your phone to schedule employees. You send texts to…
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Small business owners who don’t offer flexible schedules probably don’t realize why they are so important. Of course, employees want more freedom. But there are also significant advantages for owners. In fact, employer benefits may outweigh those for the staff. A key advantage is helping small businesses compete with larger companies. Here are some of…
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Are you tracking time and attendance accurately? If not, someone else may be doing it. And that someone may be one of your employees. If you don’t have a reliable employee timekeeping system, you are at risk of a wage and hour lawsuit. Employees Can Track Time With a Free App From The Department of…
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There are many well-publicized benefits of workforce management. Improved efficiency, lower labor costs, and streamlined compliance are a few. One of the merits that gets less attention is a better employee experience. The term “employee experience” embodies many aspects of how an employee interacts with their job. The actual work the employee performs has a…
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Just last month, a New Orleans bakery was ordered to pay $127,128 to employees to settle a labor dispute. Part of the violation? Inadequate record keeping. According to the DOL: “The company violated FLSA record-keeping provisions when it failed to keep required payroll records for some employees, paying them in cash with no documentation.” Sadly,…
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Businesses implement workforce management software as they need it—or as they can afford it. These include Human Resource Information Systems (HRIS), benefits management, payroll, talent acquisition, onboarding, and employee timekeeping. As the company grows over the years, it can end up with many disparate systems. Company mergers can add even more software complexity to the…
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