10 HR Myths That Could Get Employers in Trouble
"We're in an at-will state." "She never said the words 'reasonable accommodation.'" Many of the most expensive HR mistakes begin with someth...
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Why Employees Ignore Their Benefits and How HR Can Help
Companies spend real money on benefits their employees might not understand. Mary McNally of AIM HR Solutions joins Pete Wright to talk abou...
AI at Work: The HR Questions Companies Are Facing Now
AI has been showing up at work for years — but now the questions are unavoidable. Pete Wright talks with Kyle Pardo and Terry Cook from AIM...
Workplace Investigations with Sarah Piscatelli and Tom Jones
Every HR professional knows the feeling: a complaint comes in, and you sense that whatever you do next could be read back to you under oath....
Pre-Hiring Assessments: Smarter Hiring or Hidden Risk?
Employers love the idea of a hiring tool that does the hard work for them — a test that surfaces the right candidate before the interview ev...
Orientation & Onboarding with Kyle Pardo & Annette Dupree
Here's a question worth sitting with before we get into it: when's the last time a new hire walked into your organization and really landed...
Manufacturing HR Shifts, Safety, and the Weight of Plant Life with Terry Cook & Stacey Wenczel
Manufacturing is one of those environments that exposes every gap in your HR infrastructure fast. When you're covering three shifts, managin...
Taking Family Leave: What People Wish They Knew with Sarah Piscatelli and Mary McNally
Bonding leave sounds straightforward: an employee has a baby, takes time off, and returns to work. But Sarah Piscatelli and Mary McNally fro...
Recalibration 2025: Federal Contractors, Remote Work, and the Morale Crisis
The workplace in 2025 feels like it's moving at double speed. Federal contractors saw affirmative action requirements disappear virtually ov...
Leaves & Accommodations: The HR Playbook for Getting It Right
There is a specific moment in the life of a Human Resources professional that is fraught with a peculiar kind of tension. It happens when a...
Return to Office, Reduction in Force: HR’s Toughest Balancing Act
There’s a moment every HR professional remembers — that first email, that first conversation, that first tremor in the air when “return to o...
Pay Transparency Starts Here: What to Do Before October 29
We like to think numbers are neutral. Post a range, satisfy a rule, move on. But in practice, a salary range is a story: a public promise ab...
When Policy Meets People: Immigration and HR
We like to think the workplace is a place of routine—a clock in, clock out kind of world. But for many immigrants, and for the employers who...
Human in the Loop: Using AI in HR Without Losing the “Human”
AI is already showing up in HR, whether it’s writing job posts, drafting performance reviews, or powering employee chatbots. But when does i...
You Asked, We Answered!
This one’s a little different. You asked what’s keeping you up at night—and Pete, Sarah, and Terry actually answered. From the deceptively s...
Tough HR Questions • Keeping Engagement Real Amid Workplace Risks
A CEO hosts a party to boost morale—and ends up with a workers’ comp claim. A casual breakroom conversation erupts into political tension. A...
Pay Transparency 101 with Kyle Pardo
When we talk about workplace culture, we often focus on perks—remote work, flexible schedules, and ping-pong tables in the breakroom. But un...
Tough HR Questions • When HR Gets Personal
There’s a particular moment—somewhere between noticing a scent that shouldn’t be there and sitting someone down to talk about it—that HR bec...
Tough HR Questions • Bereavement Leave, Fake Doctor’s Notes, and Workplace Recordings
Think about trust. Trust is the invisible currency of the workplace. It’s the unspoken agreement between employer and employee that we’ll ac...
HR's Juggling Act in Manufacturing: Recruitment, Training, and Retention
In this episode of Human Solutions, Pete Wright sits down with two seasoned HR professionals—Lucille Ward from Package Steel Systems and Ter...