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Mastering Employee Evaluations in 2025: A Comprehensive Guide

Learn how to conduct thorough employee evaluations. Read on to enhance and track employee performance with our comprehensive guide to effective assessment.

Corporate Sustainability Initiatives: Benefits, Examples, and Certifications

Explore the crucial role of corporate sustainability initiatives, certifications, and real-world success stories across industries.

Hustle Culture in the Workplace - Understanding Its Impact & How to Deal With It

"Hustle culture" may seem like just another work-related buzzphrase that gets tossed around, but it's so much deeper than that. This term refers to the never-ending push to increase work hours, neglect the need to take breaks, and ultimately, to feel guilty putting oneself ahead of work. Hustle culture normalizes overworking, lofty goals, and a general sense of "workaholism."

Comprehensive Guide to Bereavement Leave Policies and Usage

Every employer should have defined bereavement leave policies and guidelines to support employees during such a difficult time.

Culture of Recognition: What Is It and How Can You Create It?

New research from Gallup and Workhuman shows a culture of recognition goes a long way in the workplace. It’s what leads to thriving employees – and, by extension, thriving businesses.

Career Advancement: How to Support Employee Growth

Learn the importance of developing structured and fair career advancement opportunities so your workers can can reach their career goals and advance their careers.

Paid Maternity Leave: An Overlooked Human Right

The duration of and benefits related to maternity leave continue to be a huge topic of conversation within civil rights discourse. In the US, there is still no federal requirement or protection regarding maternity leave, leaving 80% of employees with no guaranteed paid leave and 46% with no guaranteed leave whatsoever. Not only is this a gross byproduct of a capitalist culture, but it's also an oversight that can cause massive issues for families and businesses, negatively affecting everyone involved.

What is Pay Transparency? Understanding the Laws, Policies, and Drawbacks

Explore the significance of pay transparency in the workplace, its advantages, disadvantages, best practices to implement and the relevant laws in the US.

Introducing the Workhuman App for Microsoft Teams: Your Key to a Thriving Workplace

The new Workhuman app for MS Teams embeds your organization’s recognition program directly into the Teams environment where your employees are already working, meeting, and collaborating every day.

100+ Effective Employee Recognition Words That Work in 2026

Coming up with the right phrasing is often difficult. Here are 101 words to use in recognition when you’re trying to inspire.

What are Equitable Hiring Practices?

A better workplace is inclusive, diverse, nurtures a culture of belonging, and employs equitable hiring practices.

What Is World Gratitude Day?

If ever the world needed the restorative power of thanks, that time is now. Gratitude lifts us up, rejuvenates our spirit, and gives us a renewed resolve to meet the challenges we’re facing.

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