Ask a Manager

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

One of my team, Jerry, was diagnosed with cancer a few years ago, just months after he was hired. Our job can be very rigorous and requires working long hours on our feet in all kind of weather conditions. It is often labor intensive and very active. I am very proud of our organization for supporting him throughout his treatment.

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Ask a Manager

JANUARY 19, 2022

My baby is going to be four months old later this week. I took 12 weeks off and returned to work a month ago. Instead, my team became more independent during my leave, meaning I am able to take on more to promote our company’s growth. I’m a new mom. I manage a small team at a communications firm. Something is weird here.

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Ask a Manager

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

This post, should you put stay-at-home parenting on your resume, I don’t want to train my new manager, and more , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. Putting stay-at-home parenting on your resume as a job. It’s not that parenting isn’t hard or valuable work; it is. Here we go….

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Insperity

APRIL 7, 2020

Without enough incoming revenue, many businesses struggle to pay employees or pay rent on commercial leases, for example. Federally mandated paid sick leave. 6 qualifications for paid sick leave: When an employee is quarantined or isolated subject to federal, state or local quarantine or isolation order.

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Analytics in HR

APRIL 23, 2023

Better team morale – when an employee leaves, it usually leaves an open vacancy for a few months, and the rest of the team often has to pick up the workload left behind. But a poor onboarding process (or lack of one) can prevent new hires from knowing what they need to do to succeed and leave them feeling unhappy at work.

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Ask a Manager

JULY 19, 2022

We had a staff member out on maternity leave, and when she returned she was allowed to cut down to 32 hours. This has added to the dissatisfaction since everyone sees this person leaving early every day, and many others have to pick up the work that she cannot/will not get done. My boss gives different perks to people with kids.

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Thrive Global

MAY 20, 2020

As a kid of divorced parents growing up in Queens and Long Island, NY in the 1970’s, my life revolved around the game of baseball. I ate, drank, slept, breathe baseball twelve months a year. Oh, how I wish I knew this one before I started because it would’ve completely eliminated the fear of starting. That couldn’t be more wrong!

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Thrive Global

MAY 5, 2020

Working parents are under an enormous amount of pressure. But a lot of people have kids — and during the coronavirus crisis, the vast majority of working parents are forced to juggle their professional to-do lists with their parenting responsibilities. . Here are a few steps that you can take.

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HRExecutive

OCTOBER 6, 2021

She took to the task with intent, for nine months leading focus groups, talking to companies, reading about culture, meeting with employees, connecting with leaders, organizing a “culture cabinet” and conferring with experts on the topic. And the organization’s huge culture problem, which was wreaking havoc internally, was mostly to blame.

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Achievers

JANUARY 18, 2017

An annual performance review simply doesn’t tell us enough in today’s fast-paced business culture. An annual performance review simply doesn’t tell us enough in today’s fast-paced business culture. More importantly, many of the changes Millennials bring to the workplace are actually good for everyone.

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Payactiv

MAY 5, 2022

Understanding Single Mothers’ Financial Pressures During the first few months of the pandemic, virtual learning, reduced school and daycare operating hours, and quarantine mandates had. Author Lisa Alther summarized it best when she said, “Any mother could perform the jobs of several air traffic controllers with ease.”

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Ask a Manager

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

24 that I would be resigning, leaving me with a week to finish what was left and bring coworkers up to speed on my projects. Here we go…. My boss wants me to hire his daughter. I am the manager of a small group of administrative assistants, and we rarely have job openings. I imagine so many pitfalls if I am forced to hire her.

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Thrive Global

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Celebrate the successes of others as well?—?if if someone has done a good job?—?tell If someone hasn’t done a great job, sit down with them and think about what both of you can contribute to make the situation better next time. Your colleagues haven’t taken the rubbish out, AGAIN? Create a rota and be the owner of the situation.

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Capterra

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Poor compensation, bad managers among top reasons employees leave small businesses. Poor compensation or benefits is the top reason employees leave their jobs at small businesses, cited by 33% of respondents. employees are quitting their jobs than ever before. Identifying and fixing causes of high turnover is vital.

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Zenefits

JUNE 4, 2019

A more expansive version of New Jersey’s family leave and benefits laws, which would impact smaller employers and double the number of weeks an employee can take, is scheduled to go into effect on June 30, 2019. The previous version of the New Jersey Family Leave Act (FLA) applied only to businesses with 50 or more employees, 4.4%

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Ask a Manager

MARCH 31, 2022

I’ve been managing a new remote employee for four months and it’s been a daunting task for many reasons. When we moved into that office, I heard from my coworkers that we have a rule that the last one leaving the office makes sure all windows are closed. Instead, she asks someone else to do basic tasks (e.g.,

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Workology

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

If you work in human resources or are a manager of a department or team, you likely encounter a regular number of questions on at least one of six things: 1) compensation 2) work schedule and hours 3) employee benefits 4) vacation/time off 5) advancement opportunities and 6) work culture or environment. Unfortunately, U.S.

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Thrive Global

OCTOBER 14, 2021

This meant that the presence of extreme ‘morning’ sickness for nine months, followed by the presence of a morning-noon-and-night human baby for every day that ensued since the sickness stopped, took me away from having any kind of full-time availability or approach to my work. Part-bloody-time?!

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Ask a Manager

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

So, he will be losing two weeks pay every month (or I will have to quit my job or move into a hotel full-time). So, he will be losing two weeks pay every month (or I will have to quit my job or move into a hotel full-time). My company is essential, according to the extremely loose definitions. Is there anything I can do here?

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Ask a Manager

JULY 17, 2019

As she has already spoken to me about it, should I apologize again and acknowledge that I’m not taking it lightly or leave it be? Parental involvement with candidates/employees who are under 18. You have addressed pretty consistently how to deal with early-career candidates and employees whose parents try to get involved.

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Workday

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The undergraduate degree she received in psychology had not prepared her for a six-month rotation as assistant store manager at The Home Depot. . Although she didn’t become a master tradesperson, this experience was a great leadership lesson in the value of skills, inclusion, humility, and respect. candidate) to give her a chance.

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Ask a Manager

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Our “unpaid intern” is paid $42,000/year. Occasionally we take on graduate student interns, very rarely are they paid internships, and if they are paid it’s not very substantial. We’re due for an audit by our parent agency in December. I’m an executive assistant for a small nonprofit agency.

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Homebase

MAY 15, 2019

Am I required to provide paid sick days to a full-time employee under federal law and, if so, how many hours? There's no requirement of paid sick leave but there are 36 cities and states that do require it. Yes, if they have permission from their parents or guardians. Two months. Yes, after six hours.

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Ask a Manager

MAY 16, 2021

It’s six answers to six questions. Once we knew the date of our reopening, I gave them plenty of notice (about a month) to find someone to cover the evenings when I couldn’t. I agreed to watch her until they hired someone new … and that has yet to happen, almost two months later. Here we go….

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HRExecutive

DECEMBER 14, 2015

Came across this LinkedIn post the other day by Jake Anderson about Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s recently announced few-months’-paternity leave for his daughter. But not quite enough responsibility to ensure you won’t get edged out, undermined, displaced or overlooked.

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Ask a Manager

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

My manager is incredible and supportive, I’m paid a competitive salary, and the benefits are great. Our office is closed between Christmas and New Year’s, during which the entire company receives paid leave. where there is no law about vacation time being paid out at the end of the year.

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HR Daily Advisor

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Although the federal government may not go for paid leave, many entities and jurisdictions are taking it up on their own, says Susan G. Fentin’s Commonwealth of Massachusetts does have a paid leave law, and she shared her perspective on paid leave at BLR’s Advanced Employment Issues Symposium, held recently in Las Vegas.

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In Full Bloom HR

MAY 31, 2018

Wanted and raised by two reasonably together and prepared parents? Once those circumstances of your birth have provided enough mazel to get you started, it’s time to consider the second leg of our stool. Build A Life “Starter Kit” Leg #1. Were you born in the US rather than in North Korea? More mazel.

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Thrive Global

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

His solution was to abandon my uneducated mother to care for four children, the oldest ten and the youngest nine-months old. Recognition for a job well done is one of the most effective ways to give feedback. As a part of our series about “How To Give Honest Feedback without Being Hurtful”, I had the pleasure of interviewing Dorothy Gibbons.

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Thrive Global

AUGUST 31, 2022

Rob Whalen is the Co-founder + CEO of Seattle-based PTO Exchange, the first platform that allows employees to self-direct the value of their unused paid time off (PTO) for other needs and causes. They will be tied to an individual, just as pensions have migrated from being a liability for the company to portable 401(k).

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Ask a Manager

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

I’ve been thinking about this question for a while, but Thanksgiving has brought it to the front of my mind: Just how thankful should I be to my employer? It seems like my employer expects me to be a lot more thankful to him / the organization than I am. Here’s an example: last winter the furnace went out at my house.

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Ask a Manager

FEBRUARY 11, 2018

I want to break up with my boyfriend — but I work for his parents. Lucky for me, my boyfriend’s parents happened to own a business in that field and they had a position open that was basically my ideal role (and probably several steps above any entry-level position I would have gotten elsewhere). It’s five answers to five questions.

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Ask a Manager

OCTOBER 31, 2019

The sister location has been having trouble with bedbugs in the building for some time, and over the past couple of months have gone through the paces of localized spraying, fumigation, and even bringing in bug-sniffing dogs (I didn’t know there were dogs that could sniff out bed bugs!) to try and track down the source.

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Thrive Global

JANUARY 14, 2020

When I told my parents about my decision, they were petrified. Why would anyone in the right mind leave a well-paid job behind? My parents, relatives, friends…all tried to warn me of the dangers. My parents were not highly educated and they were the early batches of baby boomers. What would you do? what if …?),

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Ask a Manager

JULY 7, 2016

Before I moved out, I often got into arguments with my parents over money. However, my parents would often ask me to do things for free that a professional would normally do. When I moved out, I was then busy enough that I could claim time to not do these time consuming, often expensive tasks. I had no issue with these tasks.

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Ask a Manager

DECEMBER 26, 2017

My boss made me leave a work-related note at the grave of my bereaved coworker’s relative (first update is here ). Although my parents and other family and friends have been nothing but supportive and good to me, they all agree that I should have gone to HR right away and not delivered the note. I need to keep looking.

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Lusha

JANUARY 1, 2022

On top of that, some products or services have an overwhelming smorgasbord of features that leaves inside sales representatives wondering where to start learning. S When you become a sales representative, some of your duties might include generating leads, making sales presentations, hitting quotas and creating reports. Generate leads.

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