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Practical guides to leave, time tracking and team health, from the team building the HR tool your AI can talk to.
Performance Reviews Are Broken: Here is a Simple Alternative
Performance reviews fail because one meeting does three jobs: pay, feedback, and legal cover. How to split them, plus a two-question check-in template.
EU Pay Transparency Directive: What Small Companies Must Do
EU pay transparency decoded for small companies: the duties that hit every employer now, the reporting that phases in by size, and what to collect today.
EU AI Act in HR: What You Can & Cannot Automate
Emotion recognition at work is banned, high-risk HR duties slipped to December 2027, and everyday drafting is fine. The EU AI Act tiers, sorted for HR.
Your Team Isn't Taking Vacation. That's a Management Problem
Untaken vacation is a management problem, not employee diligence. The four structural causes, the fixes that actually work, and a script for the talk.
The HR Department of One: A Survival Guide
The honest job description, the four fires you never wing, and a month-by-month annual calendar for the person running HR alone at a small company.
Routing HR Questions Through an AI Assistant: What Broke
We routed our HR questions through an AI assistant wired to our own system. What worked, the five ways it broke, and what stays human.
Surveillance-Free Timesheets: Track Hours Without Spyware
Hours data without spyware: expected hours from real schedules, a short editing window for honest corrections, and logging that costs seconds, not minutes.
Pulse Surveys vs eNPS vs Health Checks: Which Do You Need?
Annual surveys, pulse tools, eNPS and team health checks answer different questions at different speeds. Sort the instrument first, then the vendor.
Public Holidays & Leave Policy for Distributed Teams
The same two weeks off costs different amounts of leave in Warsaw, Berlin and London. The per-country holiday calendar model that keeps every charge fair.