Recent events on the national stage have enflamed, enraged and emboldened people from all over our country to express opinions and make pronouncements that have taunted, insulted, frightened and threatened others who would disagree. The national debate regarding an individual's freedom to make controversial pronouncements has been front and center...

The hottest topic in business right now is Artificial Intelligence. The major tech bros are tripping over each other, trying to pinch the best creators at the highest prices away from their competitors. Major corporations are eliminating thousands of jobs because they have AI doing sales, customer service, and who knows what else. And, every other...

A new presidential administration has taken office and is making significant changes to our federal government. Many of those changes are having psychological, if not yet physical, impacts on the private employment sector. Businesses leaders and employees are openly wondering what are the new rules and proclamations going to mean for our day to day...

As many Human Resources and Labor Relations experts anticipated, legislation and rules that originated during the Obama Administration have resurfaced with the Biden Administration. Legislation introduced in Congress February 4, 2021, would substantially change existing employment and labor law. Are you ready?

The lightening pace at which pharmaceutical companies produced viable vaccines is amazing. The deliver of those shots to healthcare workers and first responder has been a much needed boost, if you'll pardon the pun. However, this disease has not been eradicated and tensions in the work place are still running reasonably high. Personal Protective...

This will not be an easy conversation. And, it is one that needs to take place. We must be willing to open up the discussion to grow as people and as business leaders.

Many businesses have been hard hit by the pandemic and the variety of new rules and restrictions implemented by Local and State governments. For the minority of businesses that are still operating, the impacts are quite a bit different. One of the biggest challenges faced by businesses still open and operating is how to operate safely and keep...

Experts accross the nation, and accross the globe, have stated that the novel corona virus that causes COVID-19 is a pandemic. Although the disease has sickened relatively few people in our country, compared to the our actual population, the spector of rampant infection has states and local municiplalities enacting fairly extreme measures in the...

There are many challenges to managing in the modern workplace, quirky personalities, generational divide, unspoken personal bias, regulatory requirments, and the list goes on and on and on. This past week, a new challenge has surfaced or rather resurfaced ... Panic.

Finding the right talent in today's marketplace is one of the most difficult tasks business leaders face. Ten years ago, unemployment rates were just over 10%. A lot of good people were out of work and many more were under-employed. Now, US unemployment rates are at record lows. In Oregon and especially the Portland area, unemployment is even...