EverythingPeople gives valuable insight into the developments both inside and outside the HR position.
29 April 2025
22 April 2025
Employees want compensation for long commutes in RTO situation: According to professional recruitment consultancy Robert Walters, U.S. professionals spend 1-5% of their annual salaries on commutes alone. Unsurprisingly, 60% of employees believe commutes are the most important expense employers can subsidize, and 74% name commutes as a major factor when considering a new job.
15 April 2025
Are you prepared for I-9 and immigration enforcement? Federal immigration authorities may be gradually boosting their enforcement activities, but the slow pace has not changed employers’ need for caution.
8 April 2025
Employers must post new State of Michigan Veteran poster: Effective 4/2/25, businesses must display a veteran’s resource poster in an area accessible to all employees, per PA 197 of 2004 — enacted by the Michigan Legislature on the final day of its session.
1 April 2025
Employees are wary of 360 reviews: More than three in four employees have expressed their desire to opt out of 360-degree feedback evaluation systems amid concerns that it could be misused in the workplace, according to a new survey. LiveCareer's poll among 1,000 employees in the United States found that 71% of organizations are using 360-degree reviews regularly.
25 March 2025
18 March 2025
Federal contractor minimum wage executive order revoked: President Trump rescinded the executive order increasing the minimum wage for federal contract workers to $15 an hour, leaving an uncertain future for the U.S. Department of Labor rule implementing the order and ongoing court challenges to the rule.
4 March 2025
Daylight Savings starts March 9th: Set your clocks forward one hour Sunday morning, March 10th. Daylight Saving Time was first proposed by George Vernon Hudson in 1895, and its use in the U.S. was first mandated during World War I. It was subsequently used on and off for years by various countries and U.S. states./p>
7 January 2025
IRS mileage rate increases to $.70 per mile: The Internal Revenue Service announced that the optional standard mileage rate for automobiles driven for business will increase by 3 cents in 2025, while the mileage rates for vehicles used for other purposes will remain unchanged from 2024.
17 December 2024
10 December 2024
AI to make organizations more diamond-shaped: As generative AI begins taking hold in business, who does what work and how organizations will be structured will inevitably change, particularly at the leadership and management levels, according to a new survey from Capgemini in which 1,500 managers from 500 organizations and 15 countries participated.
3 December 2024
Engineers are scarce: Nearly a million engineering roles were advertised across the country in August, according to RS, a product and service provider for industrial customers, placing engineering among the top ten most in-demand professions. But the profession has a dearth of new, incoming talent.
26 November 2024
Gen Zers want more training opportunities: According to new research from Udemy, a workforce training platform, based on responses from more than 6,500 multigenerational workers, 65% of Gen Z are highly motivated by professional development, besting millennials and Gen X. The rise of generative AI has caused Gen Z to get serious about upskilling, underscoring their professional drive.
19 November 2024
How much time do you waste in a week? Organizations are losing an average of $15,138.03 per employee annually due to unnecessary tasks, according to a new report from Wrike.
12 November 2024
Managing pay range reporting in job postings: Employers need to be careful about their job advertisements on third-party platforms as state pay range laws take different approaches to liability for such postings.
5 November 2024
Manufacturing labor shortages persist: Despite increases in revenue and employee productivity, U.S. manufacturers are reporting recruitment and retention challenges heading into the final quarter of 2024, according to an Oct. 3 report from UKG.
29 October 2024
Daylight Savings Time ends November 3: When clocks are turned back an hour in the early morning on November 3rd workers on the midnight shift at that time will actually work an extra hour. Assuming that these workers are nonexempt employees, meaning that they are governed by the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), they must be paid for all hours worked.
21 October 2024
Help employ military spouses: The U.S. Department of Defense launched the Military Spouse Career Accelerator Pilot, or MSCAP, program in 2023, where spouses are matched with participating companies, and DOD pays the salaries of the spouses during the 12 weeks. The hope is that companies will hire them full-time as a result of the fellowship, but there’s no guarantee.
15 October 2024
Fertility benefits becoming a must for employees: According to a recent survey by the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans, 42% of U.S. employers polled offered fertility-related benefits in 2024, up from 30% in 2020.
8 October 2024
1 October 2024
Do managers fake it? A new report from Workhuman was conducted among 3,000 full-time employees in the U.S., U.K., and Ireland. It discovered that 48% of managers felt that faking productivity is a common issue on their teams — but 67% of non-managers denied faking productivity at work.
24 September 2024
17 September 2024
Next Going PRO Training Grant Application Period Opens October 1: Many of ASE’s members take advantage of the Going PRO Talent Fund each year. This is state grant money available to employers for employee training. In addition to skill-based training, this grant money can be used for some of ASE’s most popular supervisory and leadership courses.
10 September 2024
Resume gaps still problematic: Resume gaps may no longer carry the same stigma they once did, but they are not entirely free from negative impacts on hiring and compensation, according to research by Harvard Business School professor Boris Groysberg and Oberlin College associate professor Eric Lin.
3 September 2024
Four-year degrees still worthwhile: The number of good jobs will grow substantially by 2031, and the majority of them will require at least a four-year degree, Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce predicted in a new report.