According to an October 2015 The Harris Poll, 29% of the U.S. population has at least one tattoo. Nearly half of Millennials have at least one and more women than men are tattooed. What is your company’s policy regarding “body...
Despite a continued focus on job titles at work, what you call a position doesn’t matter. What is of much greater importance is the job description. As a trend years ago, companies would elevate job titles to make people feel...
On the surface, sustained low unemployment rates appear to be a good thing. In the past year, unemployment claims have been below 300,000, which hasn’t happened in more than 40 years. In a March 3, 2016, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution article,...
When the cost of living differs from one place to another, there is some common sense in setting different minimum wage levels. These wage decisions seem to be best made at the state level, where the costs of living are...
As MarathonHR grows, so does the need for larger office space. We recently moved to new office space within our current building in Athens, GA. Same physical address, but double the space. The move allows for more private offices, easier...
The Bureau of Labor and Statistics (BLS) announced earlier this month that January marked the 71st month of increased job growth. 151,000 new jobs were created in January and the unemployment rate remained at about 4.9%. Additionally, there was “solid”...
Last month, U.S. Secretary of Labor Thomas Perez made a statement regarding September’s Employment Situations report. Perez said, “The recovery continued in September, with the economy adding 142,000 new jobs. It was the 67th consecutive month of private-sector job growth,...
A comprehensive performance appraisal process, widely known as 360-degree feedback, provides employees with feedback from people that surround them in the organization – supervisors, co-workers and subordinates. There are many benefits that may result from this kind of appraisal including:...
When your data is breached, it is most often as a result of a security gap in your network as well as a human gap. According to a report from the Ponemon Institute, companies are attacked an average of 16,856...
Last March, President Obama directed the Labor Department to make overtime pay an option for millions of additional workers by narrowing the “white collar” exemption under the Fair Labor Standard Act (FLSA), which would more restrictively define the duties test...