by Doug Patten | 2025-12-06 | HR
For many nonprofit organizations and small businesses, the difference between making genuine impact and drowning in administrative quicksand often comes down to one brutal reality: paperwork. HR forms that multiply with each new hire, compliance updates that arrive...
by Doug Patten | 2025-11-28 | HR
As we approach 2026, small and mid-sized businesses face a convergence of regulatory changes that will fundamentally reshape compliance obligations, particularly for organizations managing remote or multi-state teams. This isn’t the usual incremental adjustment...
by Doug Patten | 2025-11-08 | Enterprise Solutions, HR, SMBs
If you’re running a small or mid-sized business, you’ve almost certainly experienced this thought process: “We just need a tool that can help us with this one specific thing right now.” The instinct is completely understandable and reflects how...
by Doug Patten | 2025-11-02 | Compliance, HR, overview, Recruitment, SMBs, Talent Acquisition, Training
For years, artificial intelligence has promised to revolutionize workplace productivity, but for most small and mid-sized businesses, that revolution felt perpetually out of reach. Enterprise-grade AI tools carried enterprise-grade price tags. System integrations...
by Doug Patten | 2025-10-26 | Compliance, Generative AI, HR, Recruitment, SMBs, Talent Acquisition
Every HR leader knows the frustration of a broken promise in technology. Applicant Tracking Systems were supposed to revolutionize recruitment and save time, improve candidate quality, and making hiring decisions smarter and more objective. Instead, for many...
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