It’s difficult to spend any time on LinkedIn and other platforms without running into an article or an opinion about fractional HR and the benefits it can provide organizations. And there is a reason for that – it works, and it provides good value for any organization that needs HR support, but not in a full-time capacity. Some of the benefits include lower financial commitment, enhanced objectivity, and an ability to add expertise to address specific, short-term needs such as implementing an HRIS, or conducting a compensation survey, etc. As one of the first organizations to provide this serv ..read more

Most employers know that they need a solid onboarding process to start the employment relationship off on the right foot. But many companies neglect to give the same attention to their offboarding processes. During these tough economic times, employers are being forced to make some hard decisions. With many organizations having to lay off team members, having a solid departure strategy grounded in dignity and compassion is a must. Handling departures well not only mitigates legal risks down the road, it also means that high performers who leave will be more likely to consider return ..read more

Boundaries are funny things. They are the personal and interpersonal rules that you create for yourself, your guidelines around acceptable and unacceptable behaviours. They are unique to you: formed from the array of your life experiences, your family and home, and the wider culture and community that you grew up in.  But they are moving goal posts as well, because you have different boundaries for different groups of people in your life and the different settings you inhabit every day. There is no exact science or algorithm for determining what boundary you’ll be using at any moment or t ..read more

[This week’s blog was written by Flo Follero-Pugh] I loved to draw when I was little. My sister and I would spend hours sketching and colouring pictures, proudly keeping our favourites so we could admire our work whenever we wanted. As children of Filipino immigrants, we grew up grateful for luxuries like pencil crayons, crayons, and blank papers to create to our hearts’ content. However, when we made pictures of ourselves and wanted to colour our self-portraits, there wasn’t a specific pencil crayon that matched our skin tone. We had “camel brown” and “chestnut brown,” the closest approximati ..read more

Since the onset of the pandemic, we’ve experienced a seemingly constant wave of change – to the way we work, where we work, and how we work. We’ve seen lines blur or dissolve entirely between work and home, personal and professional, and most notably, between the world and the workplace. As we shared the global experience of the pandemic and the world took a collective pause, we had a chance to take note of better ways of doing things. We re-imagined how we treat each other, the planet, and how we lead. With good intentions came change, and lots of it.  Luckily, we have a deep-rooted cap ..read more

March 8 is International Women’s Day! This year’s theme: #EmbraceEquity. Today’s Engaged HR blog addresses an equity-related topic that is predominantly relevant to women: the challenges faced by mothers in the workplace. As equity is about removing barriers, this conversation is about removing the barriers specific to mothers managing the dual workload of family and career. And yes, those barriers still exist! The Great Resignation saw women exiting the workforce at nearly twice the rate of men. Approximately one third of all mothers in the workplace have left their jobs or decreased their ho ..read more

In September of 2022 we published our first top 10 list of movies and tv shows that contain powerful HR themes. Since then, our team of HR nerds have been hard at work, watching more, so that we can bring you more HR joy! This new list of 10 additional movies/shows for HR professionals to geek out on is not in any particular order and includes some older shows, as well as new ones that have emerged since our last blog on this topic. So, without further ado, grab some popcorn, turn down the lights, and enjoy! Star Trek is a groundbreaking science fiction television series that debuted in 1966 ..read more

As we begin a new year, predictions for what is to come are everywhere and HR is no different! While we don’t have a crystal ball to predict the future, we work with hundreds of organizations and support thousands of employees in a wide range of sectors, and that provides us with the unique ability to identify prevalent HR trends for this year. With that, here are our Top 5 HR Trends for 2024: Increased need for employee mental health and well-being supports. While this was a hot topic in 2023, it is only going to increase in 2024. Employees at all levels of the organization have been report ..read more

On November 1st all job postings in BC will require that expected pay, or pay range, be included on the job posting. Seems simple enough but if you are not transparent about pay inside the organization and you start posting salary levels for all the world to see, that might bring up some conversations that you are not prepared for! In BC, the government recently provided clarification on how pay is to be posted: The expected wage or salary or expected wage or salary range must be included within the job posting as either a flat hourly or annual rate or as a range (hourly or annual). If stati ..read more

Are you familiar with the phrase “we all make mistakes?” It’s undeniably true – we all make mistakes, some more than others. How wonderful! Wait, what? Wonderful? Yes, it sounds cliché, but when you dig into the concept of failure from a psychological perspective, it is clear that the human brain learns best when we make mistakes… and accept that those mistakes are a natural part of learning. Psychologist Carol Dweck is most often cited as founding the concept of the growth mindset, a mindset that sees skills and intelligence as improvable rather than set in stone. A growth mindset looks at mi ..read more