Savvy hiring managers have long known that the best source of high-level, well-trained employees is employed referrals, not sifting for graduated individuals in the desired field. For one, new graduates often don’t have real-world experience. It’s one thing to learn about accounting from a textbook and another to put it immediately to use in a corporate environment interacting with new …
Can Hiring Gen Z Help Ease a Return to the Office?
In last month’s Partnership Employment blog, Relocating Offices? Mindful Choices to Support Employee Wellbeing, we focused on ways to get people, especially Baby Boomers and Millennials, excited about returning to the office. Relocating or remodeling with employees’ physical and mental health in mind were options designed to tempt the remote-insistent folks to rejoin their colleagues for a more human-centered experience. …
Relocating Offices? Mindful Choices to Support Employee Wellbeing
One of the biggest trends of 2021-2022? Workplace relocation! It’s hardly surprising. Work-at-home mandates and workers’ long-simmering desires for more flexible or remote work have resulted in cities filled with echoing office chambers. Additionally, some companies are fleeing expensive and high-tax cities like San Francisco, Chicago, and New York for smaller metro areas like Atlanta, Phoenix, Seattle, and Austin. Tax …
Are Your Finances Recession-Proof?  Here’s What You Can Do Today!
Summer’s not the time to be worrying about things like the economy. Yet nearly 7 in 10 Americans are fretting about a recession by the end of the year (Bankrate poll). Just in time for Christmas! There are two categories you could land in once the near-certain downturn begins. First, you could be one of the 41%who feels they are financially unprepared to handle an …
How to Effect Loyalty in the New Workforce Â
It used to be obvious why employees felt disloyal to their companies. Autocratic management, insufficient support, and hatchet-style layoffs led to a lack of trust – a foundational principle of loyalty. But today, the best companies with top-notch pay, benefits, and training investments are finding a younger workforce less loyal, less trusting, and more willing to bail for higher pay, work-at-home, or …
