Businesses and individuals alike are excited about social media such as Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter. However as with any emerging technology, many questions remain unanswered about the impact on your employees and company policies. Should your company allow employees to access social networking tools from the office? Are your employees abusing this privilege at work?
A Security Threat?
Many security and IT executives fear that social media …Read More

If your day is anything like mine…
You spend most of your time staring deeply into the face of a plastic computer screen, blinking and blinking your eyes, subconsciously trying to make contact with it enough to make it your friend. Unfortunately, I can tell you from a firsthand experience that it hasn’t happened, at least for me, yet. Not for lack of effort, mind you, but purely from the absence of a heart and soul, among other things, of …Read More

Sage HRMS Business Partner, Dresser & Associates, announces a new program that rewards clients for referrals and donates to charities.
Scarborough, Maine – June 26, 2012 – Dresser & Associates, a premier provider of Sage HRMS and Payroll solutions, today announced a new Referral Rewards program that benefits clients and the charities of the clients’ choice. The new program is intended to promote corporate social responsibility while …Read More

This article is the second of a three part blog series focusing on social media and human resources that will cover the subtopics of employee conduct, social media policies, and recruiting.
Dresser & Associates recently hosted a webinar with guest speaker Alyssa Morris from Constangy, Brooks & Smith, an employment and labor law firm. Presenting on the topic of “Off-Duty Conduct and Social Media”, Alyssa shared her knowledge and advice on …Read More