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Struggling with Employee Recognition? Try Reimagining Appreciation Instead.

Employee appreciation isn’t about pizza parties in the break room or giving a pat on the back. Sure, hosting fun events and compliments are great ways to appreciate and engage your employees. But effective employee engagement is about charting a path to further success for your employees and creating opportunities for their futures so they […]

Why the Best Small Business Employee Handbooks Are Never Done

When was the last time you updated your employee handbook? If you are like many small business leaders and owners, you might have to think. And that could be a problem. Employee handbooks are essential for employee engagement and retention. The very best are sources of truth for your company brand, culture, and what makes […]

Need to Have a Tough Employee Conversation? Just Say It.

We work with small businesses across the country. Despite different states and different industries, there is a common challenge facing all our clients: Fear of having hard conversations. We seemed to have forgotten how to have discourse. Ironically, at a time in which technology has made it infinitely easier to communicate, we’re doing less and […]

Your Playbook for Tough Employee Conversations

We often put off tough conversations because we don’t know how to broach the topic. That’s why we wrote this article: so you can lead with greater confidence, create healthier discourse with your team members, and achieve your goals. All month long, we’ve been sharing why it’s important that small business owners and leaders Just […]

August Labor Law Updates

INFINITI HR is happy to provide Monthly State Labor Law Updates as a service to our subscribers. These briefs provide a general description and are not meant to be all inclusive of compliance requirements. This list is not inclusive of all legislative changes for employers across the U.S. Changes may have been addressed in previous […]

Five Wage and Hour Violations That May Surprise You

While companies may be trying to do everything right when it comes to labor law compliance, the rules and regulations are many. While minimum wage, sick leave, and other laws are front and center in the news, there are other, less talked about regulations that often catch employers off guard and can easily result in […]

July Labor Law Updates

INFINITI HR is happy to provide Monthly State Labor Law Updates as a service to our subscribers. These briefs provide a general description and are not meant to be all inclusive of compliance requirements. This list is not inclusive of all legislative changes for employers across the U.S. Changes may have been addressed in previous […]

What’s Your Plan to Shape Up Employee Experience?

For this month’s “rally cry” for small business leaders, we want to ask you, What’s your plan for shaping up your employee experience? We assure you: this is a vital question to ask and answer! An engaged workforce is vital to your bottom line. Engaged employees are more productive. Engaged employees also tend to stay […]

How Purpose-Driven is Your Workplace?

Our Chief Inspiration Officer for an HR firm supporting small businesses speaks with owners and leaders every day who tell her they want to keep their best talent and attract the best talent. Her advice to them to encourage engagement and retention is to cultivate a purpose-driven workplace. Your best talent won’t leave you for […]

Using Compensation Market Scans to Combat the Great Resignation

US businesses are in the midst of a great resignation, or at least a great rethinking of how work is completed. Even happy employees may look at the projected inflation of six percent and start to wonder if something better is out there. Small business owners already know how hard it is to find the right […]