March Madness at work: Tools to Build a Team of Champions
March Madness, a well-known yearly basketball tournament in the United States, is currently taking place. All around the country, millions of people are tuning in [...]
Cat Symonds
Cat Symonds is a freelance writer, editor, and translator. Originally from Wales, she studied Spanish and French at the University of Swansea before moving to Barcelona where she lived and worked for 12 years. She has since relocated back to Wales where she continues to build her business, working with clients in Spain and the UK.
Cat is the founder of The Content CAT: Content And Translation, providing
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12 pros and cons of offering unlimited PTO
The labor market is becoming increasingly employee-driven and job seekers are demanding more from the companies where they work. As a result, businesses need to [...]
Equal Pay Day 2023: Why pay transparency matters
Employees these days are demanding fairer hiring practices and more transparency in business. As a result, increasing numbers of companies have started practicing pay transparency. [...]
7 ways to promote gender diversity in the workplace
Although much of the world has made progress over the past century in the fight for gender equality and gender diversity in the workplace, there [...]
Reviewing Factorial: The HR software that puts people first
This month, Factorial’s HR software has been featured on SelectSoftware Reviews, an expert-driven HR Tech review website. The site’s unbiased reviews are based on the [...]
International Women’s Day: 6 Empowering workplace strategies
International Women’s Day is celebrated every March 8 to raise awareness of the discrimination faced by women around the world and to encourage citizens to [...]
What is Equal Pay Day and 4 ways to support it
Equal Pay Day is an annual campaign that aims to increase awareness of pay inequality and eliminate unfair pay practices and pay disparity. The campaign’s [...]
Skills-based hiring: what talent leaders need to know
Skills-based hiring is becoming an increasingly popular recruitment strategy in US organizations. This approach can be a great way to expand and diversify your workforce [...]
NPS: how and why you should calculate it
Customer reviews and recommendations have never been so important. In fact, according to BrightLocal’s 2023 consumer survey, 84% of people trust online reviews as much [...]
The rule of 7: The power of social media
The rule of 7 is a longstanding marketing principle based on the idea that the more contact you have with your customers, the easier it [...]
Build an internal talent mobility program: step-by-step guide
Turnover rates have been rising since the pandemic. Part of this is down to inadequate compensation and increasing demands for employee well-being. However, another common [...]
10 ways to improve your talent attraction strategy
Labor markets were hit hard by the pandemic and the subsequent Great Resignation. One of the biggest shifts we have seen is that employees are [...]
Candidate persona: what is it and how to create one
With the employment sector still experiencing the effects of The Great Resignation, many organizations are struggling to fill critical positions. In fact, the war for [...]
Push for a 4-day work week: Guide for Maryland employers
There has been a lot in the media lately about a new proposal in Maryland for a 4-day work week. With this bill, which has [...]
Here’s how pay transparency is going in 2025
Pay transparency has been a hot topic of conversation lately. Companies based or operating in a number of states, including California and Colorado, have had [...]
6 habits of emotionally intelligent leaders
According to the World Economic Forum, we are now living through the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Technology and digitalization have changed the way we do business [...]
How to conduct a flawless employee performance review
An employee performance review can be a fantastic opportunity to boost engagement and drive employee success. Despite this fact, many employees still consider them to [...]
Tips for managing global teams in different time zones
With globalization and the rise in remote work and flexible schedules that we have seen since the pandemic, employers are experiencing a number of new [...]
DEI teams hit by tech layoffs: a lesson to be learned
DEI teams in global organizations including Amazon and Twitter have been hit with alarming mass redundancies that have sent shockwaves around the world. This is [...]
11 Accounting concepts businesses should understand
When you run a business, it’s important to have a clear and documented record of all your financial data. This includes your revenue, expenses, assets, [...]
How to celebrate & honor Black History Month in the workplace
Despite the best efforts of our nation, racial injustice at work is unfortunately still a reality. Many people in the United States and around the [...]
Strategies to improve the physician shortage in the U.S.
The U.S. is facing a worrying physician shortage. It’s been coming for some time, but the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the issue. And, according to [...]
8 Best Practices on Hiring Freeze to Enhance Your Business
The past few years have been very unstable for the business world. We have seen a global pandemic, war, and disruptions in energy supply chains. [...]
Guide to digitalization: 10 ways to digitize your business
We have entered a new digital era: The Age of Digitalization. Businesses all around the world are beginning to embrace advances in Big Data technologies [...]