Archive for December 2016
When You’re a Contract Worker, Where Is Your Loyalty?
For earlier generations, the question of employer loyalty was a simple one: Your loyalty was to the sole company that employed you. But now, things are much different. Many people work multiple jobs, and if you’re working through a staffing agency – you’re technically being employed by two different companies. So where should the loyalties…
Read MoreWant to Save Money in 2017? Don’t Make a Bad Hire!
For obvious reasons, most companies focus the majority of their attention on increasing revenue. However, one of the least complicated, and often disregarded, ways a company can lose revenue is by making bad hires. Poor hiring decisions are like a hidden tax on your company. Obviously, they cost a business in terms of wasted resources…
Read More3 Ways to Deal With Conflict With Another Employee
We all have that person at work who always seems to get the blood boiling; unfortunately, it’s a situation you must deal with as a professional. In the book Toxic Coworkers: How to Deal with Dysfunctional People on the Job, psychologists reported that approximately 80 percent of the people the authors surveyed described moderate to…
Read MoreWant to Work Remotely in 2017? Here’s What You Need to Do
Whether you’re moving farther away from work, about to have a baby or know you’d be more productive with a flexible schedule, working remotely over the internet could be the solution you’re looking for to achieve a better work-life balance. The great thing is, more and more businesses are open to either part- or full-time…
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