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Future of Work 2025: Part I – Staffing Challenges & Ongoing Return-to-Office for Small Businesses

By , |December 18, 2024|

As 2024 draws to a close, it’s time to discuss the Future of Work for small businesses. In this series, we tackle two of the biggest challenges facing California small businesses and others across the USA: navigating staffing shortages and the ongoing return-to-office debate. Here’s how to position your business for success in 2025. 2025 Hiring Challenges: Addressing Staffing Shortages The 2025 Salary Guide from Robert Half highlights ongoing staffing shortages in sectors like technology, finance, accounting, and healthcare. According to the report, 73% of managers struggle to find skilled candidates, driven by: Technological Advancements: Rapid tech changes mean skills are increasingly niche, creating a smaller pool of qualified candidates. Changing Workforce Expectations: Employees prioritize remote work, work-life balance, and meaningful benefits, and hesitate to change jobs unless the offer aligns with their long-term goals. HR Strategies for Small Businesses Facing Staffing Shortages With these challenges in mind, here are [...]

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Tools For Remote Teams: Stay Connected, Productive and Sane

By |Blogs, Frontpage Articles, HR Advisory & Facilitation|

The Peoplescape team has been enjoying a remote workplace for years. What we may have lacked in having a traditional office, we’ve replaced with intentional high-quality interactions and of course, online apps. If you are looking for new tools to fill any gaps in your own Tec stack, we share below some of them we have used. Save yourself the time on the research and use it to test out which work for you – [...]

1304, 2020
Use Your Lifelines Immediately. HELP for Your Business during Covid-19!

By |Blogs, Frontpage Articles, HR Advisory & Facilitation|

As Coronavirus has sent so many of our businesses into paralysis, we can’t help but wonder “what can I be doing smarter while staying compliant”, how can I support myself, my team, my customers and suppliers. How can I serve as a beacon of light to others when I too am scrambling to stay on top of what’s being thrown at me. How do I leverage what is available to me? In this world of information overload, it is not unusual [...]

2003, 2020
Financial Support for Workers affected by COVID-19

By |Blogs, Frontpage Articles, HR Advisory & Facilitation|

Sick or Quarantined If you’re unable to work due to having or being exposed to COVID-19 (certified by a medical professional), you can file a Disability Insurance (DI) claim. DI provides short-term benefit payments to eligible workers who have a full or partial loss of wages due to a non-work-related illness, injury, or pregnancy. Benefit amounts are approximately 60-70 percent of wages (depending on income) and range from $50-$1,300 a week. You can collect DI [...]

1803, 2020
Self-Preservation with Compassion: The 3 W’s for Steering Through COVID-19 in a Small Business

By |Blogs, Frontpage Articles, HR Advisory & Facilitation|

In the face of this challenge we know you are concerned about how your company will be affected and what you must do next. As you genuinely and compassionately take measures to ensure the safety of your employees and customers, you must also take hard, rational steps to protect financial performance. The workplace You’ve probably already safeguarded workers health and safety with cleaner environments, flexible and remote working, and shift patterns with minimal staff overlap. [...]

503, 2020
Cut Through the Clutter on Covid-19: Three Workplace Culture Must Haves.

By |Blogs, Frontpage Articles, HR Advisory & Facilitation|

As Coronavirus (COVID-19) spreads globally, more and more businesses are taking significant steps in response to growing concerns. Companies relying on China-based employees will see production shortages, those relying on products from China will be greatly impacted. Companies who’s businesses rely on public in -person attendance are also being impacted already in anticipation of the summer ahead. What about our US workplaces? What measures are being taken to protect employees while limiting the strain on [...]

1002, 2020
Five Things Your Competitors Know About Harassment Training

By |Blogs, Frontpage Articles, Learning & Development|

Each year, the Peoplescape team talks with hundreds of  organizations and business leaders looking for the best training for their employees. When it comes to  preventing bad behavior in the workplace, (harassment trainings) there are so many out there – how do you  know what to look for? As Anti-Harassment and Sensitivity Training experts here are 5 training features, we suggest using to pick the best fit for your company: […]

310, 2019
The Definition of Insanity: Hiring Safe yet Expecting Astonishing Results

By |Blogs, Frontpage Articles, Talent Search & Recruitment|

Finding a new team member is hard. You spend time and energy recruiting the ideal candidate who’s a great fit. But let’s question what ‘a great fit’  really means. In your mind a great fit probably means the candidate from the same industry, who’s followed a progressive path in the same job stream to lead them to this next step. But this is playing it safe, it risks limiting you and your company and you’re [...]

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Go Green and Promote Sustainability For a Winning Culture

By |Blogs, Frontpage Articles, Talent Management|

Agility in the workforce is all about creating a flexible and productive environment for employees. Many companies achieve this through providing different work spaces, offering remote working opportunities, and promoting a collaborative culture rather than taking a rigid procedural approach. Another approach that has seen businesses become more agile is a shift to more sustainable practices.  […]

2608, 2019
Keeping Your Talent: Smart Lifestyle Reward Strategies for Any Sized Company

By |Blogs, Frontpage Articles, Talent Management|

When you can only pay a low salary, how can you still recruit great talent? Start-ups, small and medium-sized firms are just some of those restricted by salary obstacles when it comes to hiring and keeping the best talent. And it’s a serious problem, as outstanding talent can make or break these companies more than any other. Here are our Sure-Fire Ways to Fight Back. […]

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#5 Rethinking Rewards and Recognition in your Agile Organization

By |Blogs, Frontpage Articles, HR Advisory & Facilitation|

In our previous blogs, we discussed how to hire, how to measure performance and what an Agile leader looks like. In “Shift from “Me” Performance to “We” Performance with Agile Performance Management” we spoke about moving performance measures from a single individual to a team’s performance. How does this affect and change the way we reward or recognize members of Agile organizations? How do you design a successful reward program that promotes teamwork, celebrates team [...]

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