Thoughts on HR

WhyHR is pleased to welcome Brittany Anderson to our team! Brittany will be supporting clients on the administrative side to ensure that all employee HR files contain the necessary paperwork and signatures and are well organized. Ensuring employee files are organized...

For the past three years, this company has operated under the name Vanguard Results. Naming a business isn’t an easy task, and I chose something that personally resonated with me and the fact that I wanted to offer a new approach to small business human resources. On...

The performance improvement plan is an important tool for any manager in any company, but it’s often misunderstood. Is a PIP a form of disciplinary action? Yes, somewhat. Is it the form you fill out because you eventually want to terminate someone? No. A performance...

Today’s workforce can include up to five generations: traditionalists, baby boomers, generation X, millennials (aka generation Y), and generation Z. It comes as no surprise that those generations may have different work styles and be motivated by different things....

Every company regardless of size should have an evaluation process for employees. There’s no single best practice for how to conduct evaluations, but they are a critical part of employee communication and company growth. It’s important to first know your company...

Congratulations, you’ve hired a new employee! You conducted a job analysis, created the right job description, eliminated some trolls early in the process, and found a great candidate because you identified the why during the interview. But the hard work of successful...

Business owners are typically great at talking about themselves: why they got into the business, how they are better than the competition, and what they are looking for when they hire employees. But when it comes to interviewing, talking about yourself and your...

There hasn’t been a bigger topic in the past year when it comes to business compliance with the government than the new overtime laws that were signed into law in May 2016 with a compliance date of Dec. 1, 2016. Days before the law is to take effect a judge out of...

When many people think about employee onboarding, they think the first step is employee orientation. At WhyHR, we believe successful onboarding starts way back at the beginning of the hiring process. For us, onboarding includes pretty much everything that happens to...

In our previous blog posts, we discussed exempt vs. non-exempt classifications, as well as the importance of job descriptions and job analysis in determining an employee’s classification. Once you have completed a job analysis for your employees to fully understand...