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The Great Resignation is over, the red-hot recruiting market has cooled a bit, and inflation is down. That’s some of the good news for employers in 2024. But don’t relax too much – compensation is still important. In a recent Compensation Best Practices Report published by Payscale, a majority of employers reported compensation as their […]

The Taylor Swift effect marches on. Fans flocked to The Black Dog, a London pub that scored a track on Swift’s latest album, The Tortured Poets Department – despite the singer herself never visiting the spot. Lyrics for “The Black Dog” recount how Swift watched as a former flame (but which one?) who left location […]

How cohesive is your team? Do individual employees feel connected to each other, with everyone working together for a common goal? Or do people tend to focus more on their own quotas and keep their co-workers at arm’s length? Team cohesion matters. When employees work together as a single unit, there’s a sense of camaraderie. […]