by Tim Strysko | Oct 2, 2025 | Helpful Resources
When Uncle Sam decides to take a timeout, California businesses feel the pinch fast. Government shutdowns aren't just a DC drama: they ripple through the Golden State's economy, hitting small and midsize businesses where it hurts most: cash flow, contracts,...
by Tim Strysko | Sep 15, 2025 | Risk Management
Picture this: Your warehouse employee accidentally backs the forklift into a support beam, causing $3,000 in damage. Your office manager spills coffee on the new laptop, frying the motherboard. Your delivery driver clips a mailbox while backing out of a tight...
by Tim Strysko | Sep 8, 2025 | Helpful Resources
The August 2025 jobs report just dropped, and if you’re running a California business with 25-250 employees, there’s some stuff you need to know. The national picture? Pretty underwhelming. But for California SMBs, there are some real opportunities buried...
by Tim Strysko | Aug 29, 2025 | Helpful Resources
AI, the all-consuming buzzword of all buzzwords. At this point, if you haven’t heard of AI, what rock are you living under? And if you keep hearing about big companies using AI to save time and money on their Human Resources processes and wish you could too,...
by Tim Strysko | Aug 18, 2025 | Risk Management
The California Employer Reality Check: Why Pain Points Keep You Up at Night Running a business in California is no cakewalk. Between ever-shifting employment laws, wild swings in compliance requirements, and the state’s love of employee rights (and class-action...
by Tim Strysko | Aug 15, 2025 | Risk Management
The New Shortcut: Employees and ChatGPT Harassment Training Welcome to the golden age of shortcuts—where employees, pressed for time or simply bored by slide decks, have started using ChatGPT to breeze through mandatory harassment prevention training. If you’re a...
by Tim Strysko | Aug 14, 2025 | Helpful Resources
If you own or run a business in California, you already know: rules shift fast, employees expect more, and that handbook you wrote in 2016 is now as outdated as an iPhone 5. Enter the rise of the Fractional HR partner—a proven way to get expert-level HR firepower,...
by Tim Strysko | Aug 11, 2025 | Risk Management
“We’re Like Family”—But Is That Enough? For many California business owners, especially those running companies with fewer than 200 employees, the workplace often feels like a close-knit tribe. It’s common to share jokes at lunch, pitch in when things get tough, and...
by Tim Strysko | Aug 8, 2025 | Culture
There’s a new generation at work and if you haven’t already noticed, Gen Z is rewriting the rulebook in ways no earnest HR handout could’ve predicted. Some of their quirks are bewildering, others are absolutely hilarious, but all of them serve as a bright orange flag...
by Tim Strysko | Aug 5, 2025 | Culture
Let’s be honest: “career conversations” have a reputation. Sometimes they’re portrayed as quiet moments at a corporate retreat, sometimes as awkward forced HR rituals, and sometimes as a necessary evil just slightly less painful than a root canal. That’s a shame,...
