Retain: Keeping Your Best Employees

The Franchise Onboarding Report: What the Data Reveals About Early Turnover

Franchisors today are feeling the pressure from all sides. Rising labor costs, inconsistent unit performance, and the challenge of maintaining...

How to Support Employee Development (And a Growth Plan Template)

Imagine it: Productive and satisfied employees that are engaged in your business and stick around for the long haul. It’s...

Why Do Employees Quit? 6 Reasons Employees Consider Leaving Their Jobs

As a business owner, you know that turnover is expensive and stressful. Every employee is an investment for your business,...

Why Company Culture Matters and How to Strengthen Yours

Hopefully, you’re a business owner that’s determined to create a great place to work. If so, you’ve probably already realized...

6 Ways to Support Employees During The Busy Holiday Season

The holiday season is an exciting, but often stressful, time for businesses across various industries. With the surge in demand...

Ask a Franchise Expert: 5 Ways to Maintain A Winning Franchise Culture As You Scale

What if I were to tell you that building a company culture isn’t the hardest part? As I’ve worked with...

5 Ways to Prevent Turnover When Pay Raises Aren’t an Option

CareerPlug research found that dissatisfaction with current compensation was the number one reason employees leave their jobs, which probably doesn’t...

Avoiding the “I Quit”: How Employee Turnover Can Impact Your Entire Franchise System

It’s no secret that high turnover can negatively impact businesses, but this impact goes far beyond the time, effort, and...

10 Creative Ways to Recognize Employees and Make Them Feel Valued

Think about the last time you received recognition for a job well done. It probably made you stand a little...

12 Employee Engagement Ideas to Try With Your Team

Employee engagement is a measure of how much employees are invested in their work and the organization. Engaged employees: Engaged...

How to Improve Your Employee Engagement Survey Response Rate

Employee engagement surveys are vital for keeping tabs on how your employees are doing and improving the morale of your...

Why Do Candidates Turn Down Job Offers? And What You Can Do About It

You know that having open roles within your business can be stressful. And the worst version of that stress is...

Build a Recruiting Machine: A Conversation with Clint Smith and Forrest Higdon

Sometimes hiring managers get stuck in the cycle of hiring for necessity in order to fill a position quickly, rather...

7 Ways to Recruit and Retain Gen Z Employees

The babies of Generation Z are growing up quickly. With most of them now hovering between 20-25 years old, they...

Quiet Quitting: What Every Employer Needs to Know

A new workplace trend is quickly making its way around the internet – a term called “quiet quitting.” Have you...

12 Exit Interview Questions You Should Ask

There’s an expensive problem business owners struggle with today. I’m talking about the “T” word: turnover. Just how much is...

What Makes a Negative Work Environment According to Employees?

In CareerPlug’s 2022 survey of 500 employees across 11 industries, 86% said they had worked somewhere a negative atmosphere made...

Hourly Workers Say Benefits Are Just as Valuable as Compensation for Employee Retention

Though the last couple of years were stressful for most, if anything good came out of the pandemic era, it’s...

4 Reasons for a Raise: When to Give Your Employees More

Every business owner wants to create a great place to work for their employees, but being a great place to...

How to Hire for Careers, Not Just Jobs: An Interview with CareerPlug CEO Clint Smith

At CareerPlug, we’re on a mission to empower people to reach their full potential. One way we do this is...

How Upskilling and Reskilling Can Help Your Business

Throughout 2021, businesses across the country have been reopening at a steady pace, but it’s clear the pandemic has changed...