Entries Tagged Employee Relations

Business leaders must be prepared for some employee turnover. Sooner or later, you’re bound to have an employee who leaves the company,...

A survey conducted last year by The Harris Poll for job-search platform Glassdoor showed that 60% of 1,200 respondents felt it was unacceptable...

You've heard the phrase, “time is money.” In a service industry, that is often true in a very literal way. We can...

No employee, no human is infallible. The best companies understand this. They do their best to hire and train right so that...

A study from consulting firm FMI Corporation and PlanGrid discovered that 52% of all construction industry rework is a result of poor data...

We often spend more time with our work family than our real family. I use the word “family” because we end up...

We watched the Mars rover landing back in February, and the significance of the accomplishment was palpable. We could feel the historical...

Do you ever feel like there is way too much appreciation shown in your workplace? If you said no, you’re not alone....

How companies handle adversity often serves as a litmus test for success. Take Southern Directional, for instance, an underground-utilities and directional-boring company in...

When asked to name a primary reason for the success of Sewer Experts, a sewer-line replacement and rehab company based in suburban...

By several measures, Marisa Beaver is an outlier in the world of trenchless sewer line replacement and repair. For starters, the co-owner of...

As a new year dawns, many small-business owners are making plans, adjusting strategies, and resolving to be as productive and as efficient...

There’s a lot of emphasis these days on building a great workplace culture. Unfortunately, doing so is a lot like following through...

The next time your company decides to launch a new initiative, you could use facts and figures and charts and graphs to...