Should employers allow employees to wear political gear in the workplace, or should political expression be limited to avoid divisiveness?
Recently encountered this issue at work and looking for insight on how to approach it! How do you go about limiting political expression if that's the best course of action?
What relationship policy does your organization have in place, and how do you effectively communicate it to employees?
I recently watched the HR Party of One episode on relationship policies and was wondering how other HR leaders approached workplace relationships. Looking for insight!
What is the best team-building activity you have ever done?
We want to make this fun and energizing for our employees. Please share!
How can I reduce the stigma around PIPs at my organization?
My employees have traditionally seen PIPs as a punishment. How can I frame PIPs in a way that ensures my employees feel supported and motivated to improve?
What aspects of office culture are important to employees?
We are evaluating our company culture and would love to know what culture-related norms are seeing more value in other organizations. For example, are employees excited about lunch and learns, flexible hours, etc?
Would you rather accidentally send an employee an offboarding-related email before their manager has informed them they are terminated OR run into a terminated employee at the grocery store?
Share your thoughts!
Would you rather sleep in the same hotel room as your direct report on a company trip OR accidentally tell the company that one of their colleagues is pregnant?
Share your thoughts!
Would you rather sleep in and miss a meeting with your boss OR come in on time, but evidently hungover?
Share your thoughts!
Would you rather tell an employee they smell bad or that they need to stop picking their nose?
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Part Time to Full Time Hire Dates - Need to Show Both
Currently, there is no way for the system to recognize an employee that is ineligible due to minimum hours, then becomes eligible. The system does not have a spot for Original Hire Date and Full Time Hire Date so the enrollment comes across with a sheet
ID Expiration
I have employers asking for an option to get a notification when Driver Licenses expire. BP captures the license in the I9 process, but they need to know when to capture a new one for the employee to keep on file for their drivers.
Duplicate Current Offer into Upcoming Offer or have a setting under the plan to automatically add to Upcoming Offer
When configuring the Upcoming Offer you have to attach every plan to every subgroup. Sometimes groups have 10-70 subgroups that can cause this to be very time consuming. It would be helpful if there was a way to clone the Current Offer to create new renewal
Transit & Parking Account Do Not Have a Waive Option?
Can we please add a waive option for these two accounts? I set up a new group last week and opened enrollment, only to find out that there is no waive option for these accounts. Employees must choose "other" and $0.00 for deductions in order to waive
FSA Account vs Dependent FSA and Transit Accounts
Can we please add "Employee" or Employee Only" either automatically or as an Enrollment Tier for the Health FSA? Currently all that shows is 2 dashes, whereas the Dependent FSA shows "Employee Only" as do the Transit and Parking Accounts. This looks like
Can you hire somebody who doesn't have a SSN?
We have a great candidate that grew up in a cult (just kidding… maybe) and so she doesn’t have an SSN. What are my next steps?
I just had my new guy that I really pushed to hire quit after only 3 days. The hiring process was rigorous and he seemed like a great fit! How do you prevent new hires from quitting during onboarding?
He interviewed well, including an interview with our CEO, and had all the right credentials. Our onboarding process is pretty average. He said when he left that he didn't think our company is right for him. Anyone have experience with this??
How long does it normally take to get through the onboarding process?
I use the 30-60-90 plan to onboard new employees, but my friend in HR at another place only takes 3 weeks. Is there a middle ground or best practice?
What is the best way to introduce your new hire to the team?
Looking for tips & ideas. Thanks!
Add a place to enter the State tax Id in addition to the Federal tax id in BerniePortal
Our comptroller would love for the state tax id to be able to be mapped onto the state w-4 along with the federal tax id. There is not currently a place to enter the state tax id in BerniePortal and must be added to each employee's state W-4 form.
Add marriage status and hours worked to Demographic information and map to forms
i would love to have marriage status and hours worked added as demographic information instead of in the current format of added questions
Improvements for Custom Onboarding Documents
When we setup a custom onboarding document we're able to add text and ask questions to complete the background form. Sometimes the background form includes images that are helpful to improve employee understanding. Having the ability to request an upload
Do not allow employer codes to start with a capital i
If a setting or something in the portal can be changed in the system so that employer codes never start with a capital i because employees think it is a lowercase L and cannot figure out why they cannot login. This has happened with multiple groups and
Batch print onboarding documents
We need the ability to print onboarding documents such as direct deposit as a batch instead of pulling individually.
Onboarding Ideas
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Onboarding Questions
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Onboarding Best Practices
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