So yesterday was St. Patrick’s Day, and while I’m personally not Irish, on St. Patrick’s Day I try to take part in my family’s annual tradition of wearing green, eating Lucky Charms cereal for breakfast (don’t forget to put some green food coloring in the milk to make it extra Irish) and eating our annual [...]

So you run a business with multiple employees in multiple departments in your office location and some remote employees across the country.  Each of those employees earns a wage for the hours they work each day.  The reason your workforce is your largest expense is because people have their own mind.  They are influenced by [...]

Well, I have to write a little bit about our own NFL team.  Being a Wisconsin-based company, Galaxy Technologies takes some pride in our Green Bay Packers winning last weekend’s Super Bowl against the Pittsburgh Steelers. In fact, I thought it was timely to illustrate my analogy of how a good workforce management system is like [...]

In the spirit of New Years it’s time to look forward toward business in 2011, and you might be a bit behind if you haven’t already begun this process by this point in 2010.  Regardless, for those of you whose responsibility it is to manage your company’s workforce, this list is for you. It’s important to [...]

If you’re like me, you likely ate too much food at Thanksgiving dinner recently.  As I try to recoup and consider diets based on my recent Thanksgiving binge, the festival of food serves as a reminder of the, now present (no pun intended), holiday shopping season.  With all the after Thanksgiving shopping deals I can’t [...]

Here’s an interesting article from HRTools.com about compensatory time. The article talks about the legality of compensatory time—instead of offering employees overtime pay, offering time off for overtime hours worked.  In many cases such a practice is illegal. Whether or not your company uses a legal alternative to compensatory time or simply pays out overtime [...]

“How did we do on overtime last period?”  As the supervisor nervously awaits the bad news, he knows members of his team were close to going over but isn’t sure how the period ended up.  Was the team very busy or just poorly scheduled? Currently, organizations are tightening their belts looking every place to cut [...]

Any time you have an individual or group of individuals entering information into multiple systems there is an opportunity for human error, thus compromising the integrity of vital organizational data. A quality human resource employee with a > 95% accuracy rate will by definition have a 0-5% error rate range. It would be fair to [...]