PEAR Core Solutions, Inc.

In many organizations, morale and culture studies are treated like an annual ritual: distribute the survey, review the results, share a few highlights, and move on. But when done well and taken seriously, these studies are one of the most powerful tools a business has to understand how it is operating. Morale and culture don’t live in strategy decks or values statements. They live in how work gets...

Raise your hand if you’ve ever said (or heard): “Our benefits are pretty solid.” Cue the tumbleweed, a confused employee asking why their mental health coverage feels like hieroglyphics, and HR silently weeping in Slack threads.   Let’s be honest, benefits are like loading screen tips in a video game: everyone sees them, few get them, and no one really appreciates them until something goes wr...

Everyone is saying that they can’t find talent.  But that’s not the real problem.   No matter the industry or company size, one message keeps coming up in conversations with leaders: “We just can’t find the right talent.” The assumption is always the same. The market is broken. Candidates are scarce, too picky, or not skilled enough.   From my perspective, in most cases, talent exists. W...

On February 21, 2023, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ruled that “employers may not offer employees severance agreements that require employees to broadly waive their rights.” The NLRB says that the decision upholds the principle that “employers cannot ask individual employees to choose between receiving benefits and exercising their rights.” (see key press release from the NLRB here: ht...

How asking questions can become your super-power. We can tell people what to do. We can tell a co-worker that we disagree with their opinion. We can push a team to change the direction of their project. We can do all of this, and it can work just fine. Inspirational leaders don’t need “tricks” to get people to do things for them, they just need to make the request and others will oblige – and they...

Even as early as the interview process, one topic that always comes up when you’re bringing a new hire onboard is training. Creating a formal, lengthy, training process doesn’t have to be an overwhelming task for leadership teams and hiring managers, but it’s still an important part of onboarding your new hire so that they are set up for success in their new role   The PEAR team uses what we...

A well-written sick policy is an essential aspect of any workplace as it outlines the procedures and guidelines that employees and employers should follow when someone falls ill. Some states and local laws require that sick leave, whether paid or unpaid, be available to employees, and those policies must also follow the guidelines of that location.   PROVIDING EMPLOYEE SUPPORT AND A SAFE WORK...

Talent retention has always been a critical aspect of any successful business strategy, and in 2023 the importance of talent retention has only increased. The global workforce continues to face unprecedented challenges, and of course the pandemic disrupted the traditional work environment, creating new challenges for employers (for example how to maintain a cohesive team, ensure productivity, reta...

Feelings of indecisiveness are not uncommon and often plague the brightest minds.  Logic dictates that making a “good” decision (and the “right” decision) is derived from reviewing past experiences and outcomes, understanding current conditions, trends and challenges, and having the knowledge of the many variables that are potential “doom and glooms” that you don’t have control over, yet sit in th...

Before you can decide if an Unlimited PTO policy is right for your company, we need to define what “unlimited” really means.   An Unlimited PTO Policy basically does away with the concepts of “vacation” or “sick” accruals, and employees are given the freedom and flexibility to take the time away from work that they need, while still having metrics and guardrails in place to make sure that the...