Human Resources Questions

We're just getting started with scaling our business and one of the things we want to implement is a 4/1 work day. 4 days are spent working, and 1 day is for individual projects (just like Google's...

Employees Human Resources Team Project

asked Jun 6 '14 at 15:27

William Green
14 points

As our startup is growing, and in order to provide more time for the founders to work on the business instead of administrative tasks, we'll be hiring an office manager. This person would be...

Credibility Office Human Resources Virtual Assistants

asked Apr 15 '14 at 01:57

Donald Keeling
17 points

We made a hiring mistake and need to terminate an employee. It's one of the hardest things I've come across as this will be a first. What the best way to gently let go of someone who isn't the...

Termination Employees Founders Human Resources Startup

asked May 25 '14 at 20:43

Dorothy Taylor
16 points

What do you think about giving engineers a small software assignment that they complete at home and send over before scheduling an interview. This would really help an employer save both their and...

Hiring Employees Human Resources Engineers Software Engineers

asked May 9 '14 at 16:40

Ruth Mercedes
7 points

Almost everyone complains about recruiters hammering them with calls and emails. If I were to call several startups, before I could finish my sentence after saying the word "recruiter", they'd...

Recruiting Hiring Human Resources

asked Mar 21 '14 at 13:11

Gregory Justice
30 points

What are some helpful tools (both free or paid) for 2-4 person HR department at a startup?

Tools Human Resources Hr

asked Mar 12 '14 at 06:01

Theodore Taylor
40 points

I work at a small startup (~30 people) and the woman that is responsible for recruiting apparently told my salary to someone while having lunch (I don't know to who).Now my department knows that I...

Legal Salary Human Resources

asked Mar 3 '14 at 20:06

Esther Rooker
80 points

I have a very small operation (just three employees) and we decided to try out flexible hours when we hired our latest engineer. Now no one shows up on time every day!Usually it's not an issue, but...

Employees Human Resources Perks

asked Mar 1 '14 at 06:41

Kenya Brouwer
90 points

What would you say is the biggest friction point in hiring good sales people that can sell well?

Sales Hiring Human Resources Selling

asked Feb 24 '14 at 20:33

Shaina Mc Cullough
10 points

I made arrangements for a recent college grad to come in and help us out with some part time development as an independent contractor. The guy does decent work when he's here, but he rarely can...

Motivation Management Employees Human Resources

asked Aug 13 '13 at 02:23

Contrazoom
186 points

We are a young startup, founded by 3 members about a year and a half ago, and recently closed a seed-stage investment round. We are about to hire our first 3 employees, 2 tech, 1...

Hiring Employees Human Resources Stock Options

asked Dec 18 '12 at 17:25

Founder
11 points

I would like to prevent being dependant on one CTO, because fast and efficient progress is too important. Is it possible to hire two CTOs at the beginning? Or will it be similar to hiring two...

CTO Human Resources

asked Oct 28 '12 at 03:57

Daniel Jan Neetzel
21 points

I'm looking for a strategy to negotiate punctuality with an employee who is quite skilled. However, I fear that docking his pay may not have an impact because he values his own time more highly...

Management Employees Human Resources

asked Feb 20 '12 at 08:58

User2436
14 points

If an employee wanted to clean our buildings above their normal responsibilities, could we hire them as an independent contractor for the cleaning work in addition to them being an employee? Is...

Employees Human Resources

asked Feb 24 '12 at 01:19

Matthew Rankin
196 points

My sister and I started a small company. I don't mind working with her. So far, we've been doing well and have managed to keep our professional issues separate from our family life. The problem is...

Hiring Employees Human Resources

asked Feb 2 '12 at 18:13

March Robert Philip Serrano
152 points

There have been a few OnStartups threads about how an employer could look at your start-up experience. Since this board favors people who are either currently involved in a start-up or are...

Entrepreneurs Employers Human Resources Corporate

asked Nov 19 '11 at 06:19

Nicko
840 points

I have builded some web startups earlier with medium winnings. I have to say that the whole work was done by myself as I have the ability to do it programmatically. However I think I am not the...

Employees Website Human Resources

asked Sep 8 '11 at 08:25

Nikolai
125 points

Is it a good idea to create a service for reviewing and managing performance appraisals targeted for small businesses? I understand that the service may add more value if I couple it with other HR...

Human Resources

asked Aug 25 '11 at 21:32

User2306
232 points

When discussing my annual salary increase, my employer wanted me to list all my personal expenditures. They feel I should have plenty of money and I must be spending "frivolously" if I don't....

Human Resources

asked Jun 13 '11 at 23:22

Meganbliss
21 points

I have recently launched my small online business(sole proprietorship). I have no funding and this is something I been working on for the last two years on the side at night after work. I am...

Equity Human Resources

asked Jun 5 '11 at 11:07

User11033
21 points