Kara Sherrer

While job hopping is becoming more normalized than ever, HR teams don’t have to resign themselves to losing candidates as soon as they hire them.

Rescinding offers and laying off employees is never easy, but unfortunately, it is a common occurrence during economic downturns. If you find yourself needing to withdraw an offer from a candidate or let go of an employee, the most important thing is to maintain fairness and compassion for everyone affected. How to lay off employees […]

For a long time, the only way to store data was to physically download it to some kind of on-premises hardware, typically a server. Then cloud storage came along, which allowed businesses of any size to transfer their data on off-premises servers. While it was once rare, cloud technology advances have now made cloud adoption […]

Customer relationship management (CRM) systems offer many benefits for salespeople, so there are lots of reasons why you may want to migrate from a spreadsheet to a legitimate CRM.

The business world contains a wide variety of structures and models, but two basic forms can be used to define the structure of most organizational charts: vertical and horizontal. Whether your company follows a vertical or horizontal structure affects everything from how your leaders make decisions to what project management software you choose. In this […]

A great applicant tracking system (ATS) can streamline recruiting processes and improve hiring metrics, but a bad one might have you longing for the spreadsheet and résumé PDF days. It could even put off potential job seekers. Sometimes the ATS that seemed perfect several years ago no longer works for the changing needs of your […]

Key Takeaways When you first begin searching for CRM vs. marketing software, two of the first options that you are going to come across are customer relationship management (CRM) software and marketing automation platforms. While there is definitely some overlap between these two types of platforms, they also offer their own distinct set of features. […]

ADP and Paycom have widely different origin stories, but they’ve arrived at fairly similar offerings for human capital management (HCM) and payroll solutions. Both of these solutions offer time and attendance, payroll, hiring, and talent management features. However, ADP’s offerings are suited for companies of all sizes, while Paycom’s solution targets medium to large enterprise […]

In addition to the mechanical and administrative aspects of field service management (FSM), companies need effective strategies to meet customer expectations, balance the workforce, and stay profitable. In the digital age, that almost always means adopting new technology that can keep up with the business’s ever-changing needs. While each field service business is unique, FSM […]

To increase employee engagement with your LMS, focus on usability, motivation, personalization, social learning, and mobile access. Companies that optimize these five areas often higher course completion rates, stronger learning retention, and better training outcomes. Key takeaways What is an LMS? A learning management system (LMS) is a software-based program for the creating, administrating, and […]

Having an employee wellness program isn’t just a nice thing to do; it can have a positive impact on your company’s bottom line. That’s because businesses lose money every year on preventable health expenses, including sick leave, absenteeism, and health-related costs such as insurance — healthcare costs that an employee wellness program can help curb. […]

Given their smaller size and reduced resources, private practices usually aren’t trailblazers when it comes to healthcare trends. That role usually falls to larger hospital networks that can afford to implement costly pilot programs. However, just because they’re not cutting-edge doesn’t mean private practices can keep doing things the way they’ve always done them. Here […]