Hiring Solutions & Resources
Employee experience
Believe it or not, keeping your employees engaged and happy is essential in hiring top talent. Utilize these resources to create the best experience for your employees and you’ll be sure to see the payouts for your efforts.
Workplace horror stories we wish were not real
When we were kids, we used to share scary stories with our friends. And, more often than not, we would exaggerate a little bit (...
Announcing The New World of Work, two years on: A 2022 worker survey
On Aug. 4, 2020, eventual Pulitzer Prize-winning COVID-19 journalist Ed Yong wrote in The Atlantic: “Normal led to this.” The qu...
Implementing an alternating four-day workweek: how & why
When the pandemic hit, we at Service Direct, like countless other businesses around the world, quickly found ourselves trying to...
What is employee onboarding and how to get it right
Employee onboarding is the process in which newly hired employees are introduced and integrated into their new role at an organi...
Starved for talent? Support the freelance lifestyle at your work
In today’s labor crisis, SMB employers should take a lesson from the rapidly growing number of freelancers. You can attract qual...
INFOGRAPHIC: Mental Health across the ages
Mental health isn’t just a hot topic now – it has always been an issue. Our survey found that nine out of 10 respondents have ex...
9 types of workplace culture: evolve your company mindset
After three years (and a few post-pandemic months) of pouring through health, behavioral science and business research, analysts...
Get ahead of the problem: establish a proactive management strategy
Consider this situation: It’s the end of a long day, you’re tired, you’re hungry, and you want to get home. Your gas gauge is ho...
Ask the Evil HR Lady: Workplace tensions after Roe v. Wade overturned
This is the first of a new monthly series in which The Evil HR Lady addresses a HR question or challenging situation. This month...
Invest in your employees: It’s worth it for both you and them
In its 2019 Workplace Learning Report, LinkedIn discovered that 94% of employees would stay longer at their current employer if ...
Call it what it is: ‘Fawning’ – and have the courage to intervene
Here, Dr. Robyne Hanley-Defoe discusses the fourth of the four stress responses – fawning – and talks about ways in which you ca...
Toxic culture in SMBs: 6 ways to address it
The HR community is abuzz with recent research from MIT Sloan Management Review. According to this research, which performed a m...