Effective HR management tips prevent company-wide anarchy. HR has to resolve disputes, protect the employee experience, keep managers consistent, and make sure the business follows the law.
That work gets harder when engagement is low. Gallup’s State of the Global Workplace 2026 found that only 20% of employees worldwide were engaged in 2025, and low engagement cost the global economy an estimated $10 trillion in lost productivity.
The “glass ceiling” was first named in the 1980s to describe the invisible barriers preventing women from advancing into leadership. Decades later, the concept remains valid, and its scope has expanded to include race, disability, age, gender identity, and socioeconomic background.
According to Deloitte’s Global Human Capital Trends research, belonging and inclusion are now top priorities for executives navigating hybrid and distributed workforces. Employees consistently rank inclusive culture as a deciding factor when choosing an employer.
Optimum HR is a Professional Employer Organization (PEO) based in Santa Ana, California, providing comprehensive HR, benefits, and payroll services to small and mid-sized businesses that want to focus on what they’re good at.
With approximately 200 clients relying on their white-glove service, accuracy and compliance aren’t just nice-to-haves; they’re mission-critical.
The PSC is a leading UK public relations and communications consultancy specializing in strategic communications for the property, planning, and built environment sectors. With a growing team supporting high-profile clients across the industry, maintaining efficient HR operations became critical to their success.
At Accentuate Web Design & Marketing, spearheaded by CEO and Digital Strategy Consultant Eden Brownlee, managing the intricacies of building robust digital presences for SMEs is a continuous endeavor. From strategizing brand missions to efficient onboarding of developers and strategists, the company faced operational challenges in maintaining process currency and efficiency.
The turning point came during a conference over five years ago, when a recommendation introduced Eden to Process Street as the ideal solution to optimize their workflows.
Onboarding isn’t just about introductions and paperwork—it’s about ensuring new hires feel equipped and engaged from day one. In this episode of the Employee Onboarding Podcast, Erin Rice speaks with HR expert Caroline Yost about the one thing most onboarding processes get wrong: a lack of clear expectations.
Most companies treat onboarding as a structured process of paperwork, policies, and productivity expectations. However, according to Jen Bergren, onboarding expert and knowledge management strategist, one essential element is often missing: human connection.
In this episode of the Employee Onboarding Podcast, Jen shares insights from her research and experience on why successful onboarding is about fostering relationships, confidence, and belonging from day one.
Onboarding isn’t just an HR process. It’s the foundation for business growth. From creating white-glove candidate experiences to aligning stakeholders early, Megan Weizel, Managing Partner and Career Strategist at Salmela, shares actionable strategies that will change how you think about recruiting, onboarding, and keeping top talent.
Victoria Cooke’s path to HR wasn’t typical—and that’s exactly why her insights stand out. A former large-scale event planner, Victoria now sees onboarding as an experience to be designed, not a box-ticking exercise. As Manager of People and Culture at Happy Money, she joined Erin Rice on the Employee Onboarding Podcast to share her secrets for creating authentic, high-impact onboarding processes.
McDonald’s is the master of workflow optimization.
They sell 2.36 billion hamburgers annually. While at college, I estimate I made at least 200,000 when I worked for them. Every one of those burgers was a process involving many tasks. In the kitchen, we had lots of processes. They were difficult to forget, and I’d often wake up shouting, “How many nuggets do you want?!”
McDonald’s processes are continually improved and optimized to be smoother and more efficient. I once discovered a technical – yet easy – process that saved me a lot of work. What was it? At the end of the article, I’ll tell you how I used a 5 step process to complete it.
In the meantime, let’s look at how Process Street can help optimize your workflows. To use workflow optimization, you need to know:
