This year has been filled with multiple valuable lessons, particularly the importance of partnering with a staffing agency. No one could have imagined the workload that HR managers would be dealing with this year. Human resource departments across the nation have been busy between creating social distancing protocols, implementing DEI initiatives, and handling company layoffs....

The hospitality industry took a drastic turn this year due to the Pandemic, impacting staffinglevels, and budgets. In response, companies are taking a new approach and implementing newprocesses for the safety of employees. Here are three ways companies adapt to the new normaland maintain the hospitality industry’s flow. Sanitation​ – Companies are improving their safety...

As employees begin to return to work after nationwide shutdowns and work from home orders, companies are navigating the aftermath and discovering ways to ensure the health and safety of their employees. Here at Barnett Management, our temporary workers’ safety and well-being are paramount to us, as is the safety and well-being of your employees....

As today’s businesses find themselves open 24/7 while operating on tighter budgets, customer support remains of vital strategic importance and one of their biggest challenges. All too often a company wants to upgrade customer service but, given the enormous investment hiring permanent employees entails, resources may simply not be available. However, a viable and cost-effective...

IT Managed Service Providers (MSPs) are an extremely powerful option for SMBs in today’s business environment. Faced with the expectation of immediacy in service among your customers, the requirement for continuous operations and the increasing complexity of available technologies, managing your IT services alone is challenging at best. To best understand what an IT MSP...

According to a 2016 CareerBuilder study, 75 percent of employers have hired the wrong person, and 37 percent blame the fact that the employee lied about his or her qualifications. For staffing firms, these findings underscore the need to dig deeper when vetting candidates for placement and conduct thorough background checks before sending them out...

It won’t be long before U.S. minorities are not in the minority anymore. Due to projected growth among Asian, Hispanic and multiracial groups, traditionally underrepresented populations will hit majority status by 2044, according to the Census Bureau. Smart companies reflect that reality in the collective makeup of their employees. Their leaders understand that yesterday’s workforce...

As the labor market tightens, talent acquisition professionals in 2017 will be asked to fill more positions offering alternative work arrangements and to begin to use emerging technologies to find the right workers for their organizations. Employers will staff on-demand and gig positions, utilize data analytics and artificial intelligence tools, emphasize skills over formal education...

The National Safety Council has a team of consultants who travel across the country – and the world – to visit worksites and conduct safety audits. But no matter where each team member is, chances are good that he or she will spot one or more of seven common safety hazards. Here, NSC consultants JoAnn...

Forecasters are calling for above-average temperatures across much of the country this summer. Are you prepared to beat the heat? Every year, thousands of workers become ill from working in the heat, and some even die. Construction workers make up about one-third of heat-related worker deaths, but outdoor workers in every industry – particularly agriculture,...

Temporary help jobs rose by 13,400 in June from May and the temp penetration rate reached an all-time high for the third month in a row, according to seasonally adjusted numbers released today by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. Today’s revised data also increased May’s previously reported gain of 12,900 US temp jobs to...

The thing about talent trends posts is that if it were possible to predict the future of recruiting and HR, we’d probably have figured out some way to make it suck a little less. Of course, the glacial pace of change in these parts means that for the indeterminate present, 2017 Is shaping up to...