Chances are your staff is being asked to step up and do more with less right now. This added pressure — combined with a lack of raises or bonuses — can really take a toll on employees’ productivity. To prevent a huge productivity drop-off as year-end...

A difficult year has caused many staffers to reconsider the tradition of giving gifts to co-workers this holiday. Consider these low-cost options before you join ’em. Here are three inexpensive gifts — that aren’t synonymous with low quality — you...

Newton may have rethought his theory that “what goes up, must come down,” if he lived to see the increases in healthcare costs over the past decade. The latest Heatlh Care Cost Survey from Towers Perrin says that employers will see an average...

Start passing out the straws. Whoever draws the short one gets to tell employees how much less you’ll be reimbursing them for every business mile they drive. Tell A/P to put their helmets on – they’re in for a bumpy ride. IRS just released the...

For many employers, e-mail has long been the preferred method of communication about anything and everything — but certain things should never be said electronically. Scary thought: More and more courts are accepting e-mail as evidence — and that...