For many organizations, the last few years have created ideal conditions to expand their borders. Economic uncertainty, coupled with intensifying regulation in their home countries, has spurred organizations from such diverse industries as toy manufacturing to power generation to increase their sales, hiring, and infrastructure investments across the globe. True to form, we’ve seen a …
One of the most important workplace dynamics to understand is there’s no such thing as a “static” employee environment. Pay rules change, regulations are continuously added or edited at both at a national and local level, and everything from consumer demand to economic conditions can trigger dramatic course changes in HR and business strategy. Simply …
So here we are, only a few months into 2013 and already it appears the global economy is going to serve up yet another “interesting” year. Some countries—the United States, for example—are experiencing stock market highs, rebounding housing markets, and even tepid improvement in official unemployment numbers. Yet as I write this, I can hear …
For more than a century, some form of time clock has been available to help employers solve an even-older challenge of accurately capturing information about who “punched” in/out of the office and at what times. In a remarkable run for a technical device, time clocks are still in widespread use today. For comparison, consider that …
