HR Best Practices for Post-COVID Office Reopening

by Sarah Hisey | May 21, 2020 | Insights Blogs

Last week, Premier Ford announced phase 1 of a plan to ease restrictions related to COVID-19. Some workplaces and businesses were included, but only those that have the capability to maintain prevention measures currently in place. The rest of us will have...

What Remains of Bill 148 After Bill 47 Has Been Passed?

by Sarah Hisey | Jan 23, 2019 | Insights Blogs

This time last year, organizations were scrambling to incorporate The Liberal government’s Bill 148 into their operations. On November 21st, 2018 the new Conservative government Bill 47 – Making Ontario Open For Business Act 2018 – received royal assent....

Absenteeism – How to make an impact on managing it

by Sarah Hisey | Apr 25, 2018 | Insights Blogs

Like anything – it’s not an issue if you don’t have a problem with it. Most absenteeism is really “sick leave”.  It’s that which I am addressing here. Some organizations have such high engagement and happy employees that absence management is not something they even...

Are your recruiting needs unrelenting? Finding the root cause is better than continuing to have endless volume of recruiting

by Sarah Hisey | Jan 26, 2018 | Insights Blogs

When you find your organization is inundated with endless recruiting requisitions, interviews and resumes, you wonder if you can ever get out from under it. I remember that drowning feeling when the recruiting was unrelenting. When recruiting is a result of setting up...

Managing Your Assistant: Finding Balance by Sharing the Workload

by Sarah Hisey | Oct 27, 2017 | Insights Blogs

I recently went on vacation to the Caribbean with my husband. When we were planning our vacation, he pointed out to me that some of the accommodation options provide you with your own personal butler. I asked myself: Do I really need one? I assumed that the dining...