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If you’re an HR professional who works in a small or mid-sized organization, maybe you’ve had this disarming experience. A well-meaning, but ill-informed soul who’s just asked what you do for a living blinks and stares blankly at you for a moment, then says, “Why on earth would a small business need an HR department?”…Continue Reading

As an HR practitioner leading the function in a small or mid-sized business, you want the assurance that your department is reflecting your commitment to quality and professionalism. That can be hard to do on limited budgets and with few staff members dedicated to HR. Creating an HR department that implements best practices also can…Continue Reading

Most of us are probably pretty familiar with the various treatises about the need for HR to step up to the plate … get a seat at the table … become more strategic – whatever you want to call the advice about how to elevate our discipline. I don’t disagree, though if I have to…Continue Reading

For many organizations, managing time-off is naaaasty. HR gets buried with inquiries and employees grow old waiting for managers to approve their requests. BambooHR allows you to streamline your time-off processes, employees can login via computer or mobile device to check balances and make requests, managers can approve or deny requests, and HR doesn’t have to…Continue Reading

Just about the time that I am getting used to writing 2013 on checks and other documents, I can usually count on predictions for business and other areas surfacing for the year ahead. Sure enough, this week I saw projections from Josh Bersin, a well-known name in the HR field. Not surprisingly, he anticipates challenges…Continue Reading

If you ask HR professionals about the challenges they face on the job each day, chances are good that among the issues you’ll hear about are complaints related to employee data. Especially in small companies, HR sometimes must still capture, store, and manipulate data manually. And that can spell trouble. HR professionals in small and…Continue Reading

How do you offer great support? This question is debated every day in many of the Linkedin groups I belong to and for good reason. It seems sometimes that “Customer Service” departments exist solely because they’re a check on a list of to-dos. A product I purchased recently was defective, and when I called the…Continue Reading

You know, life can be pretty great in the world of HR, but I would venture to say that HR is rarely an easy job. Juggling all the fragilities between the company, the people, and the laws of the land, while constantly maintaining a happy and healthy workplace is a pretty tall order. But we…Continue Reading

As an human resources professional in a small or mid-sized organization, you are likely to be the point person for any issues or topics related to your company’s workforce. As that resident pro, you know that one of the most important aspects of managing people well is providing recognition for work done well. A lot…Continue Reading

Part 1 of our blog on selling your boss on HR technology took on the topic from your point of view – the HR practitioner in the trenches. In Part 2, we’ll look at the boss’s perspective … the view from high atop the checkbook. If you’re to be successful in selling the boss on…Continue Reading