Project Cost Overrun: Understanding, Managing, and Preventing
Navigating the complexities of project management requires acumen, strategy, and, above all, vigilance. A typical stumbling block? Project cost overruns – a scenario where spendi...
Blog posts written by Austin Connolly:
Understanding the Cost of Employee Disengagement and How to Mitigate It
Employee disengagement is a silent epidemic affecting companies worldwide, harming much more than productivity. It’s easy to view the cost of disengaged employees as something on...
Factors Affecting Employee Engagement: Key Influences and Solutions
When it comes to uncovering the factors affecting employee engagement and the cost of disengaged employees, it’s hard to know where to start. What we do know is that lack of enga...
Understanding Pay Options: What Is Bi-Weekly Pay and How Does It Work?
With so many different payment models, it’s hard to differentiate between the subtle advantages and disadvantages they present. If you’ve landed on this post, you’re probably...
What Is Deep Work and How to Implement It
With smartphones, social media, and an increasingly distracted world, it’s increasingly rare for anyone to reach deep concentration at work these days. That’s why many are urgi...
What’s New In Hubstaff’s Privacy Mission
Hubstaff is on a mission to prioritize privacy while still ensuring leaders have the data they need to manage their workforce. We want every user to understand how we collect, use,...
Productivity and Interruption: The Potential of the Zeigarnik Effect to Address Uncompleted Tasks
You’re focused on a complex problem and nearing the finish line, but that little Slack icon keeps bouncing. Whether someone knocks on your door, a lawn mower revs up, or a conver...
Time Confetti: Addressing Fragmented Work Hours
If you had an hour of free time, how would you spend it? If this question is hard to answer, author Brigid Shulte might be onto something with her time confetti concept. Idea...
Mastering Double-Time Pay: Your Essential Guide to Calculations and Regulation
Most employees are familiar with the concept of overtime, where employees see a boost in their hourly rate when working beyond their normal weekly hours. Double-time pay is rarely...
What’s the Average Number of Working Days in a Month in 2025?
2025 is right around the corner, so knowing the number of working days in a month is helpful for several reasons, like: Additionally, the number of business days in a month can dir...
10 Fun Ways to Engage Remote Employees (With Expert Advice)
Did you know that, on average, only one in every three employees is actively engaged at work? As a manager, you must find fun ways to engage remote employees. But how? Most remote...
Understanding Semi-Monthly Pay: An FAQ for Remote Business Owners
One of the best things about work is getting paid — but it can be a struggle to establish a payroll period that works for everyone. If you’re reading this, you’re probably co...
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