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9 Ways to Improve Employee Engagement and Productivity at Work

Employee engagement is the extent to which employees are invested in and committed to their work, their organization and its goals. It measures the emotional and psychological connection people have with their work, their colleagues and the workplace. This article …

Transforming Payments: Introducing FedNow - The Future of Real-Time Transactions

As technology advances and demand for faster payments grows, the Federal Reserve has built FedNow, a real-time payment system for the United States. The FedNow Service lets individuals and businesses, through their banks, send and receive payments instantly, 24 hours …

Embracing LGBTQ+ Inclusion in the Workplace: Fostering an Inclusive and Vibrant Work Environment

Pride Month is a time to celebrate the LGBTQ+ community and reflect on progress toward acceptance. Society has come a long way, but there is still work to do, especially on workplace inclusion. This article explains why LGBTQ+ inclusion in …

How to Prepare for an FDA Inspection

The Food and Drug Administration can inspect a facility for many reasons: a routine planned inspection, a survey, or a response to a reported problem. Knowing how to prepare for an FDA inspection means having every document ready for review …

5 Useful tips for Effective Email Management

Email is one of the most effective forms of business communication. Used well, it helps your team complete tasks, coordinate internally and work with clients. This article gives five practical email management tips to keep your inbox under control.Widely cited …

Diversity and inclusion in the workplace

Diversity and inclusion (D&I) is getting more attention in the business world, and companies are adopting D&I policies at every level of their workforce. Building a diverse and inclusive company goes well beyond doing the right thing. This article explains …

Form W-4: What Changed in the 2020 Redesign

Form W-4, the Employee’s Withholding Certificate, tells your employer how much federal income tax to withhold from your pay and send to the IRS. The IRS redesigned the form in 2020, so it looks different from older versions and no …

5 Tactical Tips to Effectively Manage Toxic People in the Workplace

A workplace suffers when it has people who constantly nitpick, nag and cause trouble for others. They may spread gossip or keep finding reasons to avoid work. This article gives five tips on how to deal with toxic people at …

Behavioral vs. Traditional Interviews: Which Suits Your Organization?

The quality of your organization’s productivity and revenue starts with how you select employees. Interviews play a major part in that process, from the day a candidate is shortlisted to the day they become a permanent member of staff. This …

How to Build a Competitive Work Culture to Foster Workplace Productivity

In many workplaces, company culture comes second to deadlines. These organizations miss out on a culture that drives productivity, efficiency and collaboration across a multigenerational workforce. This article explains how to build a competitive work culture that keeps competition healthy …

Data Analytics and the Future of Population Health Management

Health care organizations around the world face hard challenges in managing health information and using data to plan ahead. Those challenges have grown, opening new possibilities for population health management (PHM), especially in countries such as the U.S. and the …

Human Resources for Startups: Know the HR trends for small businesses

Every organization, large or small, has to manage employee costs, overhead and risk. In established companies, the human resources department looks after policies and practices, but many startups have no HR team at all. This article explains why HR still …

Virtual Onboarding: Proactive Approaches to its Rightful Conduct

Onboarding is how recruiting and HR teams settle new hires once they have officially joined. It matters because it is when new employees learn about the organization and the job they were hired to do. This article explains how virtual …

Changing Trends in Human Resources: HR Methods to Know

Human Resources has changed quickly in recent years. HR metrics, which help not only HR but the whole organization, keep evolving. Managing a workforce that works remotely can be hard, and HR teams need tools to understand and analyze that …

Succession Planning: Your Usher to Talent Management

Managing talent is hard for every workplace, and succession planning is often ignored or not taken seriously. Organizations that skip it usually don’t know how to carry it out well. This article explains why succession planning matters for talent management …

How to Manage Your Remote Team Amidst the Pandemic

Managing employees who work from home is harder than managing a team in one office. The pandemic pushed many teams into remote work almost overnight, and the lessons still apply to any remote or hybrid team. This article covers simple, …

Coronavirus at the Workplace: Were U.S. Employers Prepared?

This article was written in March 2020, during the early spread of the coronavirus disease known as COVID-19, when U.S. employers were taking precautions to protect their employees. It covers the origin of the disease, the situation in the U.S. …

An HR’s Guide to Employee Onboarding

Running a successful employee onboarding process can feel routine. But what about the duties that come after the first day? From hiring the right candidate to helping her settle in, there is more to onboarding than many HR teams plan …

Tips to Master a Solid PowerPoint Presentation in 10 Minutes

Can you build an effective presentation in just 10 minutes? It is more realistic than it sounds. An audience can take in a clear message in about 30 seconds, so a short, focused deck can work well. This article shares …

California Employment Law: Key Compliance Changes for Employers

California is known for employment laws that go further than federal law in protecting workers, from rules on cannabis use to equal treatment of LGBTQ employees. For employers, keeping up with California employment law means tracking changes that often take …

Using Emotional Intelligence in the Workplace

Emotional intelligence may not seem important when you have to make tough decisions at work. Yet whatever situation we face, our decisions are shaped by unconscious bias as well as analysis, and many people wonder whether to acknowledge the emotions …

How to Address Gender Inequality in the Workplace

Gender discrimination in the workplace is too widespread to ignore. Workplaces and their cultures keep changing, yet serious problems such as gender discrimination, harassment and discrimination based on color still appear. Left unaddressed, they damage an organization’s value, productivity and …

Enabling Digitization: Analyzing Business Processes for Digital Transformation

Business process analysis is central to running any business, from a small owner-run firm to a company trading internationally. A sound process is the backbone of a stable business. This article sets out eight steps for using business process analysis …

Form 1099: Are You Doing Your Taxes Right?

If you earn income in the U.S. outside a regular paycheck, you will likely receive a Form 1099. The IRS uses these forms to track income from sources other than your employer, and it has changed them several times over …

Form I-9: A Compliance Overview for Every U.S. Worker

Form I-9 is the form every U.S. employer must complete to verify that each new hire is eligible to work in the country. This overview explains why the form exists, which documents employees can present, what happens when employers get …

21 CFR Part 11: An FDA Regulatory Compliance for Electronic Records

Since 1997, hospitals, pharmaceutical companies and other regulated businesses have moved record keeping, retrieval and storage from paper to electronic systems at a rapid rate. The shift was driven largely by faster and safer data exchange around the world. Title …

Transitioning to an Ennobled Leader: Battling Challenges while Moving Up the Employee Ladder

Many employees hope to move from peer to boss and take on more important, more visible work. A promotion is exciting, but it can also be daunting, because a leader faces new pressures and has to make harder calls. This …

The Current Reforms in the Hospital and Healthcare Industry

Healthcare rules in the U.S. have changed a great deal over the past few decades, and new laws have reshaped how hospitals operate and how people get coverage. With so many people seeking care, reform has been a constant part …

The Effect of Advancing IT on Financial Institutes

Financial work once meant paperwork, used to keep records and protect customer data. Advances in information technology have changed that, and banking and finance is one of the industries most affected. This article looks at how IT affects financial institutions …

MS Outlook: Your “Go-To” Tool for Workplace Productivity

Whether you need to schedule a client meeting or plan a major project launch, Microsoft Outlook has the tools for it. Its core features have had a large impact on productivity in many organizations. Other apps now offer similar functions, …

How Utilizing MS Excel Efficiently Can Groom Your Productivity

Microsoft Excel is one of the most widely used parts of the Microsoft Office suite and sits at the heart of work in many organizations. It stores complex records and solves calculation problems with a wide range of functions. This …

Challenges Faced by the Packaging and Labeling Industries

Packaging and labeling a product involves many routine but exacting tasks. Teams must sort out every component being packed, confirm each one meets legal and regulatory requirements, and fit brand and advertising needs onto the label. This article covers the …

The role of Quality Management System in Software Validation and Development

A quality management system (QMS) is the set of processes, procedures and responsibilities an organization follows to meet customer requirements and work more effectively, including when it develops software. Software development is demanding, and validating and maintaining that software is …

How Legal is Marijuana Consumption at Work?

As marijuana laws in the US change, many employers have written their own rules on employee marijuana use. California, home to Silicon Valley, has seen a major shift in how employers approach workers who use it. Medical research describes two …

The Embodiment of LGBTQ Equality at the Workplace

In many workplaces, employees who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer (LGBTQ) report being treated as outsiders or facing discrimination again and again. At its worst, that treatment can become dangerous. This article looks at the main reasons …

How the NACHA Operating Rules Work for ACH Payments

NACHA, originally the National Automated Clearing House Association, writes the operating rules for the ACH network, which moves payments such as direct deposits, bill payments and business-to-business transfers between U.S. bank accounts. This article explains how the NACHA operating rules …

Why You Need Cash Flow Forecasting

Cash flow forecasting, also called a cash flow budget, estimates how much cash an organization will have coming in and going out over a set period. It is in growing demand among banking and finance firms looking for better ways …

Eliminating Gossip and Rumors: A Compliance Duty for Every Employee

Every organization has its weak spots, but gossip and rumors do more damage than most. Imagine working somewhere a baseless rumor never dies down. In some workplaces, people struggle from their first day to stop gossip they have to live …

The Pros and Cons of the FDA in Everyday Life

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulates food, drugs, cosmetics and other health care products in the U.S. This article weighs the main pros and cons of the FDA and the way its rules affect companies and consumers in everyday …

How to Effectively Improve the Internal Auditing Process

Organizations are audited to confirm that the way they work meets the rules that apply to them. A strong internal audit process lets a company find and fix problems before a regulator or external auditor does. This article explains why …

Multistate Taxation: The Myth and the Undermining Reality

Almost everything is taxed, from groceries to property, and the picture gets more complicated when you move from your home state to another state for a new job or a temporary project. Tax rules differ from state to state in …

Can Packaging and Labeling be Deceiving in the Pharma Industry?

Packaging and labeling matter in every industry, but they are especially important in the pharmaceutical industry. When someone buys a prescribed medicine, the label is one of the first things they rely on. It lists basic information such as ingredients, …

Can the U.S. Work Without the FDA?

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is the U.S. agency that sets and enforces the legal obligations for the food and pharmaceutical industries. This article looks at what the FDA does, why its approval process draws criticism and whether the …

What Are the Areas That Need Compliance in the Software Industry?

Software has grown more complex as applications take on more functions and integrations, and so have the rules around it. Software compliance starts with knowing which areas carry legal and security risk and keeping up with changes in each. This …

Medical Device Compliance: Key ISO, MDSAP and EU MDR Updates

Medical devices sit at the top of the compliance list in healthcare, because the rules that govern them change often and the stakes are high. Devices save lives, so every organization that makes or supplies them has to make sure …

Advancements in Clinical Research: All You Need to Know

Advancements in clinical research are changing medicine on a broad scale. Progress in biotechnology and medical science has led to new treatments for cancer and other serious diseases, and better devices and data tools are helping more trials succeed. This …

6 Reasons to Stay Compliant in the Banking and Finance Industry

Banks and financial institutions are a pillar of any national economy. They keep money moving, and people rely on them to be safe and stable. This article explains why banking compliance matters and gives six reasons to stay compliant if …

Are There Any Legal Obligations Governing Food and Beverages?

The food and beverage industry operates worldwide and keeps growing as new ingredients and products reach the market. In the U.S., every step from handling a single ingredient to processing a finished food carries legal obligations, and keeping track of …