Employers, resolve to tackle this simpler HR checklist before the new year begins

New Year’s resolutions: Be they professional or personal, simplistic or life-altering, the beginning of the year affords a fantastic—albeit arbitrary—opportunity to effectuate change.

Whatever. I’m not great about keeping New Year’s resolutions. I make them. Usually. Sort of. Sometimes I even pick them back up mid-year, but usually they go dormant long before it warms up outside.

I know the definition of hypocrisy, so I’m not going to encourage you to adopt any work-related New Year’s resolutions. Instead, I’m going to suggest a few things you may actually be able to accomplish before 2025. Maybe some of these have been sitting on your desk for a bit, and you need a nudge to wrap them up. Or maybe they are things that appeal to you, if only because they are relatively easy to check off your list—i.e., easy enough to allow plenty of time for a fourth viewing of National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation. (Is it just me, or does it get better every year?).

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