In This Texas Job Boom, Are You Offering Candidates Enough?
Mitchell Schnurman of the Dallas Morning News calls it the “Texas Trifecta.” Growth in jobs, population and pay has meant a median household income gain of 4.3 percent in... read more
Engineering Staffing: The Female STEM Gap & Why It Matters
A variety of reports in recent years have stated women account for less than 14 percent of U.S. engineering staffing. The statistics among the other STEM fields (science,... read more
Seven Ways to Increase Job Satisfaction in 2014
Will your employee job retention be better or worse in 2014? An unscientific poll conducted last month by the Austin Business Journal found that most Austinites (56 percent)... read more
Is the Performance Review Extinct?
Magazine revealed a survey in which 98 percent of U.S. staff admitted finding annual reviews unnecessary (a quarter of those respondents were HR folks). That’s a nearly unanimous... read more
IBM Austin’s New Studio: Putting Office Design to the Test
IBM recently unveiled a new, a state-of-the-art product design studio in Austin. With it, the tech behemoth is ushering in a new era of what it calls “Design Thinking.”... read more
Texas Hiring Refueled: Three Powerful Industries Outside of Oil & Gas
It’s no secret that Texas leads the nation in crude-oil production, with our petroleum refineries processing nearly 4.8 million barrels of crude oil daily. We’ve discussed... read more
Seven Reasons to Be Thankful You Live and Work in Texas
We’re proud to be headquartered in the Lone Star State and we bet you are, too. In 2013, Texas has been named a top state for business by CNBC, Chief Executive Magazine, and... read more
Employees Caring for Aging Parents: What’s Your Role?
Nearly 10 million working adults over the age of 50 care for their aging parents. That’s according to a 2011 study by MetLife Mature Market Institute, which also found the... read more
Guest Post: Should You Provide Health Insurance Under ACA?
We asked Derek Flynn, shareholder and member of the Employment and Litigation Section at Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr, P.C., to shed some additional light on providing employee... read more