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Today is a special day here in the Astron family. Happy birthday to our very own blogmaster, Andrew!! Thank you for all you do with Welcom...

This morning I heard that CareerBuilder recently released the results of a survey about interacting with co-workers. Their latest findings ...

Over the next two months, I'm going to be on the road giving presentations on total rewards. Hopefully among my travels I'll come a...

Let's start off this Monday with a little humor! Most Saturday afternoons you can find me at the 4:30 PM mass at St. Cecilia's Churc...

I’m writing today to let you know about a new web community that we're launching – myhrwebsite.com. How many times have you asked a hand...

I'm a fan of the J. Peterman Company. Remember them from Seinfeld ? The urban sombrero? The Entenmann's shim-sham? In case you d...

I was on a conference call this morning, demoing our Flare(tm) talent management system to a prospect in the Midwest. One of the first ques...

Yesterday I was at various networking events and other meetings from 7:30 AM until 9:45 PM. Naturally, I'm a little behind on my e-mail...

If you haven't already heard, today is National Napping Day! I was shocked when I learned about this from SHRM. Who knew there was a h...

It's Friday. We've made it through another week of nightmare stories from Wall Street, big business, and the other gloom and doom t...

This morning I caught up with a former student of mine. She is in the process of applying to graduate schools in order to obtain her Master...

This morning I was a guest at a Manhattan BNI (http://www.manhattanbni.com) chapter meeting. For those of you not familiar with BNI, it is ...

This weekend I was reading Woman's World magazine. If you're not familiar with the publication, it's a weekly, easy read fille...

With Andrew "Down Under" for the next two weeks, I'll be taking the lead on blog posts. To kick things off, I'll comment ...

Astron Solutions has partnered with Bond Schoeneck & King, PLLC, to present "Can Your Compensation System Weather the (Hurricane) W...

Sent out today by the SHRM Government Affairs department: "Employers should note that it will allow not only aggrieved employees but ot...

Yesterday, Congress approved the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. BLR has a clear synopsis of the law at http://compensation.blr.com/display.c...

Yesterday Astron had a booth at the New Jersey Collegiate Career Day, sponsored by Rutgers University. The event was featured on NJN News l...

Ah, my long-suffering New York Jets. This weekend they once again snapped defeat from the jaws of victory. The big news yesterday and today...

We've all heard the reports from the news regarding the number of organizations that have slashed their holiday parties due to the econo...