BirdDogHR Blog

Weed at work might sound like a funny or dangerous topic to cover in HR, but we know HR professionals are on the front line of dealing with all kinds of challenges in a modern workplace:

Onboarding: You're either doing a good job or a bad job of it. There's really not a "not doing it," because no matter what, your employees have to have a first day.

It's hard to hire the perfect person for a role - you know it, and we know it. Because of a combination of epic-low unemployment, an aging workforce and the lack of a trained pipeline (in construction, manufacturing and healthcare, in particular), the odds of landing the right candidate for a position can feel stacked against you. 

We see you, summer: sunshine, barbecues, pools, beaches...and summer vacations.

Setting performance goals is a common HR tactic, but we don't often talk about why we do it. For many businesses, it's ingrained in the process and has become another line on the list to cross off as performance reviews come around. 

The satisfaction of being a part of a well-planned and well-executed Core HR workflow is hard to explain, but the feeling you get is kind of how you feel after watching this:

Scalable core HR software > messy paper systems.

Take a look at the four employees you most enjoy working with. One of them will leave their job this year, according to the Work Institute’s Retention Report.

“We just bring applications to the job site, and I store them in my trunk.”

With the economy firing on all cylinders and talent acquisition getting increasingly ruthless, many companies are evaluating their benefits as a tool to not only attract quality employees, but also retain the ones they have.