At some point in your career, you’ve probably been asked to produce a doctor’s note to prove you were sick. You were neither hospitalized nor were you contagious with something requiring a hazmat response. You were just… sick. The kind
HR’s Groundhog Day: Don’t Retreat When Change Shows Up
Every February 2nd, a chubby rodent emerges from a burrow in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, squints at the crowd, and delivers a weather forecast that’s accurate roughly 40% of the time. Which, depending on your perspective, is either charmingly hopeful or spectacularly
Lifestyle Spending Accounts: From Gym Perks to Groceries
If you’ve been around the HR block a few times, you may think you know all there is to know about benefits. Even If you’re a small business and you’re building an HR function from scratch or evaluating your first
Star-Struck: HR and the Big O
SHRM finally got her. After fifteen-plus years of breathless speculation in press rooms, blogger lounges, and Duke Street conference calls, Oprah Winfrey will keynote the 2026 SHRM Annual Conference. The announcement sent ripples of excitement through some (though not all)
