I’m joined today by Kathy Kacher, the president of Career/Life Alliance Services and co-founder of The SMART Workplace. Kathy is an expert in workforce transformation and has helped numerous companies with post-pandemic plans, return-to-office plans, and implementing a hybrid work model. Interview With Kathy Kacher Below, you’ll find some key takeways that Kathy shared in answering each question. The takeaways were…
It’s happened. You’ve been tasked with running a corporate retreat for your company. While you have a vague idea of what a company retreat should look like (for instance, the team will probably be there), that’s about as far as your knowledge goes. Before you start panicking about the massive amounts of planning you have ahead of you, take a deep breath. We’ve put together…
I ran a company for four years before I thought about our meeting cadence. That was a failure by me as the operator of the business. If you don’t put work into your systems, you’ll end up with whatever comes out the other side (and you may not like it). When we decided to switch to a four-day work week, we reduced our work hours…
You’re so close to finishing your company retreat planning. You’ve got the location picked out, the activities, and a color-coded schedule that could win an art award. But you’ve downloaded dozens of retreat agendas and templates online, and they all seem to be missing one important element: the meetings for your retreat. Even when the templates do remember to talk about retreat meetings, they say…
Curious to know how many work hours are in a year? This post has the answers. You’re planning out your business calendar and need to know how many work hours in a year. Maybe you’re setting work schedules, hours for part-time employees, or company goals by month. In this article, we answer every question we think you might have about the amount of work hours…
Do you work seven days per week? Maybe you just started your own company and need all the time you can get to make it work. Or, you operate a business that is open seven days per week. In this article, we’ve built 10 seven-day work week schedule templates organized by categories: employee schedules, shift schedules, and entrepreneur schedules. Use the links below to jump…
What is a 20-hour work week? A 20-hour work week is often structured as five work days with four hours of work per day. An alternative format is to work 6-7 hours per day for three days per week. These are the types of people who work this schedule: 1) part-time employees, 2) freelancers or contractors, or 3) entrepreneurs who own their own businesses. In…
Here’s how to calculate hourly rate from salary. Since you and I learn in different ways, I provided a few different resources to make the calculation. Use the links below to jump to a section of the article that helps you the most: Formula To Calculate Hourly Rate From Salary Want to quickly figure out how to calculate your hourly rate from annual salary? Here’s…
Are you looking to change or improve the employee benefits package you offer? We’ve built the ultimate library of inspiration for HR professionals. In this report, we researched and discovered 116 types of employee benefits that real companies offer. These range from the staples (like “health insurance”) to the wacky (like an “on-site car wash”) to the life-altering (like the “four-day work week”). The list…
If you’re in a hurry, here are the important takeaways from the 2023 work calendar in the United States: Working days in Q4: October 2023: 21 November 2023: 20 December 2023: 20 Working days in 2023: 249 Work hours in 2023: 1,992 Weekdays in 2023: 260 If you’d like to get more detail and access downloadable graphics, read on… Working Days By Month, Q4…