I have a degree in mathematical economics, which is a strange background for an HR person. Here are the numbers I keep coming back to.

Four questions about the person they report to. Do you know what your employees would say?

“They told us they wanted to be a 1099.” That is not a decision either of you gets to make.

When we treat a resignation as the end of the relationship, we walk away from the most honest feedback we will ever get.

“Make sure they haven’t job-jumped” stopped being good advice. Median US tenure is 3.9 years — and 2.7 for workers 25 to 34.

“I don’t need to justify caring. How do you justify not caring?” The conversation that changed how I think about leading.

A 15-person law firm and a 15-person manufacturer need very different things. A plain map from a two-person shop to 150-plus.

46% of U.S. workers don’t use all their PTO. Here are the benchmarks, and why I am not sold on unlimited.

One of your five salespeople always closes — so every important account goes to them. They will never tell you it’s too much.

Job security isn’t a policy you write. It’s the accumulated impression of how you handle mistakes, how you hire, and what you say about the future.

19 states now have AI rules tied to employment. In those states, 57% of HR professionals don’t know the laws exist.

The myth is that younger workers need daily feedback. What they actually want is your attention — time with their manager.

How you pay someone is your choice. Whether they’re exempt from overtime is the federal government’s.

They don’t hold back because they dislike you. They hold back because they like you and don’t want to make you feel bad.

Every hiring best practice we preach, in one place. Do 75% of this list and you have a leg up on other small businesses.

A 100-person company replaced its second-most-important executive and never sent a memo. They assumed people knew. People didn’t.

Few things cause a stomach-drop quite like an official notice from the EEOC. Here is what one owner did right.

The objection I hear every time: there’s nowhere to promote them. Fair. So make the job progressively more interesting instead.

If I interviewed six random people at your company, would they say you are people-forward? Here is why the answer is worth money.

You have a vision. Has anyone told Jane how her work makes it possible? If not, she thinks she just does the admin job.