6 tips to stop a thief within your business
Most employers worry about the thief outside the building. Yet, if someone's stealing from you it's probably an employee inside it. ...
Topic: employee relations
Hiring isn't a numbers game. It's a standards game.
By Jon Hyman
Hiring is quality control. The moment you treat it as a numbers problem, you've already made your first bad hire. The FBI is about to le...
A beast of a harassment lawsuit
By Jon Hyman
Jimmy Donaldson, better known as YouTube's biggest star, MrBeast , is calling this lawsuit "clout-chasing," a grab for headli...
The easist thing you can do as an employer to engage your employees
By Jon Hyman
Most managers overcomplicate leadership. They chase engagement surveys, perks, and “culture initiatives.” Meanwhile, they ignore the simples...
When workplace frustration becomes a five-alarm fire
By Jon Hyman
A warehouse goes up in flames. Fifteen hours to extinguish it. Hundreds of millions in damage. And a worker—three weeks into the job—now fac...
Bribery scandals don't start with bad employees; they start with bad culture
By Jon Hyman
When a bribery scandal hits a company, the corporate response is almost always the same: These were bad employees acting on their own. Maybe...
A tale of two (alleged) sexual assaults
By Jon Hyman
A popular Cleveland restaurant and a popular Charlotte brewery chose very different paths after their owners were accused of sex-based crime...
Marijuana legalization ≠ job protection
By Jon Hyman
In Flannery v. Peco Foods , the 8th Circuit just provided a sharp reminder of how far the gap can be between what's "legal" fo...
Your contracts are a culture test
By Jon Hyman
Contracts are a culture test. This winery failed. This summer, my daughter, a singer/songwriter, had a contract to perform four gigs at a lo...
Being a workplace star doesn't excuse bad behavior. In fact, it demands more accountability, not less.
By Jon Hyman
Teenage football phenom Lamine Yamal made headlines for all the wrong reasons this weekend. At his 18th birthday party, he allegedly hired p...
Without HR, you're not running a business. You're running a liability factory.
By Jon Hyman
"I want to be the first company without HR." That's the viral line from Jennifer Sey , who founded XX-XY Athletics in March 20...
Don’t eat the chicken (yet): A lesson in workplace investigations from a Portuguese rooster
By Jon Hyman
In Portugal, one of the most iconic national symbols isn’t a monument or a monarch—it’s a rooster. The Galo de Barcelos. (Stay with me. This...
5 lessons from a poorly communicated layoff
By Jon Hyman
Imprint Beer Co. offers us a textbook lesson in how not to communicate layoffs to employees. The brewery recently announced mass layoffs and...
Buckeye of broken promises: OSU's trust fumble
By Jon Hyman
Ohio State University announced that it will rescind raises for 306 salaried employees, effective Jan. 1. Earlier this year, the university...
When employees just can't get along
By Jon Hyman
Dan and Todd? They used to be best friends. But things got messy, and now they can't stand each other. Dan's ready to move on, but T...
Keeping politics civil at work
By Jon Hyman
With the 2024 election right around the corner, it's inevitable that political talk will creep into your workplace. And let's be hon...
How many chances does an employee get under a "Last Chance Agreement"?
By Jon Hyman
When is a Last Chance Agreement not a "last chance" agreement? When the 6th Circuit reviews it, apparently. In Moore v. Coca Cola ...
Please don't forget the "human" in human resources
By Jon Hyman
"How about just being a human being in a situation like this!" "Find a way to help her, be a human being!" "Can we ...
YouTuber faces legal challenge against his overly broad severance agreement
By Jon Hyman
"Employer and Employee agree to keep the existence and terms of this Agreement confidential and to not disclose its provisions to anyon...
8 ways to spot a crook inside your business
By Jon Hyman
Between Sept. 2021 and Oct. 2022, Lyle Bigelow, the now-former COO of 1487 Brewery, embezzled approximately $200,000 from his employer. How?...