Missed production goals and unsafe working conditions led this retailer to choose Helpmates as their new staffing partner — and reduced turnover by 40%.
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Employees Are Worried About a Recession — Here’s How to Ease Their Minds
While no job, employer, or industry is recession-proof, there are some actions employers can take to ease their employee’s minds as the prospect of a recession lives rent-free in everyone’s heads.
Are You Still Sourcing Call Center Reps and CSRs Yourself?
Recruiting dozens of call center and customer service representatives (CSRs) is time-consuming. It’s also wasteful:...
How Much Social Media Use at Work is Too Much?
You know your employees visit their personal social media channels at work: they use either their company-supplied computer or their own mobile devices. But from an HR or management standpoint, how much is too much? Should they look at it just on...
Getting More Commitment from Temporary Staff
Temporary workers on assignment at your company…leave. After all, it’s right in their description: they are “temporary.” So why should they even expect any type of commitment from you? And why should you expect any commitment from them? Excellent...
Lying Liars Who Lie….On Their Resume
When it comes to our jobs and careers, just about all of us are liars: more than four-fifths of us (85 percent) lie on our resumes. (And that number – from 2017 – is a big increase: just 66 percent of job applicants lied on resumes or applications...
How California’s Statewide Minimum Wage Hike is Affecting Your Temporary Workforce
It’s not news to the region’s employers that the minimum wage for California businesses with more than 26 employees increased statewide from $11/hour to $12/hour on January 1. What’s more, Los Angeles County will be raising its minimum wage on July...
2019 New Year’s Resolution: Embrace AI
Many recruiters and human resources professionals may be – to put it lightly – a tad leery regarding artificial intelligence. After all, while many experts are saying AI won’t take away our jobs, just change how we do them, we’re still wary. Should...
Hiring Trends for 2019
Happy 2019 (soon)! As we get ready for the New Year, we thought we’d explore the next 12 months to see how they may differ from 2018 from a hiring standpoint. How will AI affect recruiting and staffing? How will candidate interviewing evolve? How...
Help Your Team Members Stay Excited About Work
As a supervisor, a big part of your job is to ensure that your team members stay excited about work….but without working so hard and so fast that they become burnt out: Your newly hired college grad is so excited about her first job in a career she...
Looming Shortage of “Middle Skill” Healthcare Workers
Are you already noticing a shortage of medical coders, billers, patient intake admins, and other “middle-skill” healthcare pros here in Southern California? If not, you will soon. The Pasadena Star News reported last year that 42 percent of the...
Should You Start a Telecommuting Program?
Employees tend to love being able to work remotely/telecommute. In fact, it’s a sought-after employee benefit for candidates and offering it as a perk of employment definitely can help attract top talent. But it’s not always a win-win for a company...