Today’s employee wants to reap more than just a paycheck from their work; many recent surveys have indicated that the opportunity to craft a harmonic work-life balance is of utmost importance for many workers, especially this current generation of recent college-graduates. One way to attract competitive talent like this is to be the sort of forward-thinking, community-minded, responsible organization that values its employees, its clientele and its surrounding community. Creating an employee volunteer program is a wonderful way to satisfy a conscientious workforce and unite it with a worthy cause and, in doing so, many organizations find that they not only gain valuable experiences, but also develop integral relationships with potential clientele in their area.
As technological advances modernize the way business gets done and workers adjust their lives accordingly, much lip service is given to the idea of restructuring the contemporary work day so that employees can best take advantage of some of the benefits that the web and personal computing devices offer. Not only is technology changing many of the presuppositions about how work should get done, but people are changing what they want to get out of the very work they do, too. Jon Stein, founder of the investment firm 
Through the reinstatement of the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) no-match letter-sending and heightened numbers of worksite audits, the federal government is trying to combat a seemingly out-of-control issue regarding the large numbers of undocumented workers in this country. Employers who face these letters and/or worksite investigations which mandate them to produce I9 employment-eligibility forms for all employees may eventually find out that, unwittingly, they have been employing undocumented workers for years. Some businesses have lost record numbers of their employees from these stepped-up procedures.
