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Mental Health in the Workplace

Please note: In this article, we follow NAMI’s example by using the terms “mental health illness” and “mental health condition” interchangeably. Since 1949, May has been recognized as “Mental [...]

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Employee Retention Ideas

Most employers have felt the impacts of the tight labor market. Employees have been resigning at a rate of over 4 million per month for over a year. Low unemployment rates continue across the [...]

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2023 Workplace Trends to Watch

From return-to-office, which was Glassdoor’s Word of the Year, to quiet quitting, 2022 introduced us to several new labor market concepts. It’s still too early to predict what terms will define [...]

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Compensation Planning Basics

Understanding compensation is critical to staying competitive in today’s volatile labor market.  Real wage growth is a concept that is particularly important. Real wages/income is calculated by [...]

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Quiet Quitting in Your Workplace

“Quiet quitting” started as a TikTok video describing how one employee was finding work-life balance by changing how they approached their job without actually quitting. The now-viral video has [...]

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Labor Market Overview

The following labor market summary was prepared by Susan Pale, Vice President of Compensation. Where has 2023 gone? It’s a question I keep asking myself, and I’m guessing many of you are asking [...]

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Compensating Your Sales Force

By now your sales force is through the first quarter of 2022.  For a lot of organizations, 2020 was a terrible sales year and 2021 brought record sales.  So what will happen in 2022?  Affinity HR [...]

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Battling the Big Quit

The current trend known as “the Big Quit” or “the Great Resignation” is expected to continue into 2022. In 2021, a monthly average of 3.95 million workers quit their jobs for various reasons as [...]

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Regulatory & Compliance Trends

Trends and legislative agendas indicate that employers are facing some new challenges in 2022 while battling old ones. When possible, it is critical that businesses prepare for these changes in [...]

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Hiring & Retaining Talent in 2022

I was recently sharing a cab with the business owner of a print manufacturer heading to an industry conference where I was slated to be a presenter on workforce trends and solutions. He turned to [...]

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White Paper: OSHA Vaccine Mandate

Notice On November 6, 2021, the 5th US Court of Appeals issued an injunction based on a legal challenge filed in its courts. On November 12, 2021, the 5th Circuit ruled that this injunction [...]

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Vaccine Accommodations

We know there is a lot of confusion around vaccine mandates and applicable accommodations. In order to provide more in-depth information for you to consider when planning the best course for your [...]

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Employee Engagement During COVID

In addition to a tight labor market and increasing wages, employers are dealing with employee “bored out” (chronic boredom leading to feeling totally meaningless) and “the big quit” (with 4 [...]

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Hybrid Work

Operating your business in the current COVID world with the relaxing of COVID restrictions across the country requires considering what your future workplace will look like. According to a survey [...]

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Legalized Marijuana and Work

Marijuana is now legal in some form in 35 states and Washington, D.C. with 7 additional states having decriminalized marijuana possession and 2 states legalizing CBD oil use. (You can find the [...]

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Diversity, Equality & Inclusion

Federal and in some instances state and local law protects several groups of people in the workplace based on their sexual or gender identity.  Given the newness of these protections, as well as [...]

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Out-of-State Employees

Among the many changes to “business as usual” forced upon businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic is the reality of more employees working from home. Whether due to regulatory shutdowns or the [...]

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American Rescue Plan Act Analysis

The American Rescue Pan Act (ARPA), the 1.9 trillion relief act passed by Congress and signed into law on March 11, 2021 contains many COVID-19 relief and stimulus measures.  The following are [...]

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10 Lessons Learned

The year 2020 marks Affinity HR Group’s 10-year anniversary. As we prepare to celebrate the occasion, my team asked me to compile the top 10 things I’ve learned over that time. Surprisingly, this [...]

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