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The Pitfalls of Physical Paychecks

Most people remember their first paycheck. The feeling of hard-earned money, right there in plain numbers and letters on the paper in your hands, is a memory many won’t easily forget. And yet, despite their long-running popularity as a material representation of your earning power, physical paychecks have reached a strange point in the modern workplace.

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4 Reasons Employers Make Bad Hires—and What to Do Instead

One of the most important concepts for employers to understand is that many unsuccessful employee relationships fail long before they ever begin. It is tempting to blame the employee for any number of reasons, like bad behavior or attitude. But an employee termination that ends on bad terms is almost always the result of a poor hiring process. Are you avoiding bad hires? How can you be sure?

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3 Big Reasons Your Employees Are Quitting

Losing a valued employee is one of the hardest challenges an employer can face. Not only have you lost that employee’s services, but the relationship you have built over their duration at your organization is now going away, too. Unfortunately, this is the reality of the workforce today: people change jobs. And, even more unfortunately, too many employers fail to plan for it.

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