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Growing Beyond 15–20 Employees Without HR Support

Growing Beyond 15–20 Employees Without HR Support

by Mey-ling Cortinas | Aug 20, 2026 | Business News, home-featured, Learn

Somewhere between fifteen and twenty employees, most businesses hit a point where the informal way HR has always been handled stops being enough. Policies that lived in the owner’s head, pay decisions made case by case, onboarding that depended on who happened...
What to Think Through Before (or After) You Hire in a New State

What to Think Through Before (or After) You Hire in a New State

by Mey-ling Cortinas | Jul 29, 2026 | home-featured, Learn

You just hired someone in a new state. Great news, they’re already set up in your system, running through the same onboarding and payroll process as everyone else on your team. One problem: the state they’re in may have its own rules on things like posting...
Five Signs Your HR Foundation Could Use a Second Look

Five Signs Your HR Foundation Could Use a Second Look

by Mey-ling Cortinas | Jul 23, 2026 | Announcement, Business News, Education, home-featured, Informative Articles, Learn

Most business owners didn’t set out to become HR experts, and they shouldn’t have to be. HR tends to get handled along the way instead: a handbook pieced together early on, a compensation decision made in a hallway conversation, a process that worked fine...
The Quiet Compliance Season

The Quiet Compliance Season

by Mey-ling Cortinas | Jul 16, 2026 | Business News, Education, home-featured, Informative Articles, Learn

On July 1, more than fifty new state and local employment laws and ordinances took effect across the country. They cover leave policies, wage requirements, pay transparency, and other areas of employment law. Many businesses aren’t aware these changes apply to...
Your Employee Handbook Has a Shelf Life

Your Employee Handbook Has a Shelf Life

by Mey-ling Cortinas | Jun 11, 2026 | Business News, Education, home-featured

Most businesses write their employee handbook once. It gets put together during an early growth phase, distributed to new hires, and then filed away. Nobody sets out to neglect it. There are simply more pressing things competing for attention, and as long as nothing...
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