PTO Models: Attract, Retain, and Sustain Your Workforce

Beyond an Employee Benefit, Using PTO as an HR Strategy Paid Time Off was once an administrative checkbox. Today it’s a strategic HR lever. For small and mid-sized businesses, the PTO model you choose signals how your organization values well-being, flexibility, and fairness. In a market where burnout is real and retention is fragile, PTO […]

A Quiet HR Risk in the DMV: When Manager Decisions Create Real Exposure

For many small businesses, HR risk feels like something that belongs to the company, not the people inside it. Payroll errors, compliance gaps, policy mistakes. Those are “business problems.” Under federal law, that assumption usually holds. But in the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia, employment risk does not always stop at the business entity. […]