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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 [...]

Employees stay at companies where they feel valued and safe. Employees leave companies where they feel discounted, taken advantage of, or disconnected from managers and co-workers. Increasing the [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

As strong demand for qualified workers continues to be a challenge for employers in 2023, compensation remains at the forefront for businesses trying to retain and recruit talent. Having a better [...]

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 [...]

The workplace has its fair share of scary stories. By bringing them to light, we hope they can become important lessons on what to do and not do.  Unwelcomed birthday party cost employer [...]

“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 [...]

We all navigated a pretty bumpy road in 2022 and now we’re all wondering what this unusually complicated labor market will offer up this year.  2022 introduced us to several new labor market [...]

Welcome to Compensation 101 where we define and give examples for those boring compensation terms we throw around all the time.  You’ve heard a lot of them recently and probably experienced some [...]