The DaysPlan Blog
A collection of helpful resources to help you better manage your company’s time.
20 Absolutely Insane Excuses for Missing Work
After 23 years in human resources, I would like to say that I’ve heard it all. But, as soon as I say that, something outrageous happens. You see, humans are curious creatures with the ability to surprise at every turn. As a result, we can find ourselves in some...
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Time. We all get 24 hours in a day. What makes the distinction between success and failure, happiness and misery, being busy versus being productive, is how we use those 24 hours. So, time is not the problem. How we use that time matters most. Many of us confuse being...
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Here’s what typically happens with performance reviews. Maybe once a year, an employee’s supervisor sits down with them for about 20 minutes to talk about all of the things they did wrong last year. If the employee...
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4 Reasons Why the Smartest Companies Ditch the 8-Hour Workday
For years the eight-hour workday has been a customary aspect of the American workplace. That’s based on an effort during the Industrial Age that encouraged companies to limit their long work hours, typically 10-16 hour days. While this change may have been a godsend...
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A Personal Essay on Diversity and Why Every Company Needs It
I have pretty much always been passionately curious about a lot of things in this world. I enjoy understanding how things work, why people do what they do and how we came to be in the very spot we are in today. Since I enjoy reading, a regular trip to the library...
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The Ultimate Guide to Employee Time Theft: What It Is and How to Prevent It
In business, time is money. This is especially true for small business owners. Whether just starting out or growing an existing business, being able to properly manage your biggest line item expense of human capital is a really big deal. There may be months or even...
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How Our Brains Work When We’re Stressed
We all get anxious from time to time. It’s perfectly human to do so. Too much anxiety, however, can be deadly. The human body was simply not designed to sustain high levels of exposure to cortisol and adrenaline stress hormones. Numerous studies have demonstrated the...
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How Reactive Management Could Be Hurting Your Employee Morale
Are stress and frustration causing you to lash out at your employees? Although this may be unintentional, this reactive style of management can really do some damage to your employee morale and lead to an uninspired work environment. Luckily, there are ways to acknowledge and improve this behavior so that your employees are excited to come to work.
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5 Easy Ways to Relieve Stress During Your Lunch Break
Having a bad day at work? It turns out a lot of office works experience stress on a regular basis. With these five psychology-backed tips, you’ll be able to relieve stress, gain mental clarity, and go back to work with a positive attitude.
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Announcing International Date Formats in DaysPlan
For companies located outside of the U.S. or those with employees in other countries, we know that seeing dates in U.S. format has made using DaysPlan not quite as easy. That's why today we're unrolling the newest update to the DaysPlan software: International Date...
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How to Boost Your Staffing Strategy [Infographic]
There are many different and creative ways to find the right mix of staffing strategies. The key to finding your mix begins with an understanding of what legal requirements apply for each type of person you may have performing work on your behalf. These are a few...
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Recruiting on Twitter: How to Find Talented Millennial Employees
If your company is already using social media to reach customers, you’re on the right track. Social media marketing has proved to be extremely effective in growing a brand presence and turning followers into customers. However, many companies have not tapped into the...
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Everything You Need to Know About the Upcoming DOL Regulations
The new DOL regulations are coming. Are you ready? December 1, 2016 is the deadline for every covered employer to comply with the new regulations for exempt versus non-exempt employee pay.
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How to Plan Motivational Meetings for Your Employees
Meetings–they’ve become a dreaded and often unproductive staple of the workplace. If you’re spending time planning for weekly or monthly meetings and feel like nothing much is being accomplished, it may be time to rethink your strategy. In this post we’re bringing you our best advice for planning meetings that inspire and motivate your employees.
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10 Proactive Ways to Avoid Vacation Shaming
Last week we talked about what vacation shaming is and how detrimental it can be to your employee morale. This week we are going more into detail about what you can do to prevent management and employees vacation shaming each other. Here are our 10 best tips!
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How Vacation Shaming Could Harm Your Employee Performance
After 30 years of observing workplace behaviors, I believe the practice of vacation shaming can be one of the most toxic behaviors in our workplace culture. By definition, vacation shaming is being made to feel a sense of shame or guilt from co-workers for taking a...
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What Your Color Choices Say About Your Brand
What is color psychology?
To me, color psychology is one of the most interesting branches of behavioral psychology. According to KISSmetrics, it works like this:
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Our Best Time Off Policy Tips | Part Two
Note: This is a two-part series. If you missed our first three tips, click here! Recap: Creating a policy to provide employees with some type of paid time off may seem like a simple task. However, the complexity of some state laws, balanced with employee demands for...
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Our Best Time Off Policy Tips | Part One
Creating a policy to provide employees with some type of paid time off may seem like a simple task. However, the complexity of some state laws, balanced with employee demands for time off and the financial constraints of the employer, can make this seemingly simple...
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Calculating the True Cost of PTO
Let’s face it, there really is no easy answer for calculating the exact cost of providing employee benefits versus not providing those benefits. It can vary widely from employer to employer. We can, at best come up with the direct costs of providing those benefits...
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18 Types of Paid Time Off
We all want to know what the best paid time off option is for our employees. Truthfully, the answer is, it depends.
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The PTO Graveyard: Is Your Company Falling Victim?
We love vacation. Almost every employee, regardless of position, believes taking time off is important for their productivity, morale and wellness, yet in the last 16 years, Americans have been taking less and less time off from work. ..
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