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If you don’t feel amped how do you realistically believe that your employees will feel it?

How to Get Your Construction Workers Excited for Work

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How Cloud-Based Time Tracking Helps Construction Companies Avoid Wage and Hour Violations

Get Free Technology to Comply with OSHA’s COVID-19 Reporting Requirements

A time tracking app with face recognition removes the guesswork from clocking in and out.

Lift Construction Labor Productivity with a Time-Tracking App Using Face Recognition

Consider workers' weights, weight of tools and materials taken up ladders.

March Ladder Safety Month Focuses on Securing The Leading Cause of Fatal Falls in Construction

Lack of training on proper use of ladders is the primary cause of more than 81% of fall injuries treated in US emergency departments, and the safety industry is working especially hard this month to get free training to those who work with ladders

While largely foreign to most contractors in the early stages of the pandemic, platforms such as Zoom soon enabled companies to maintain critical face-to-face interactions.

Will Construction’s High-Tech Embrace Continue Post-pandemic?

Construction has seen a surging acceptance of various forms of technology during the COVID-19 pandemic. But will it continue once the crisis is over?

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Here's Why Cutting Construction Carbon is an Opportunity Few Contractors Can Afford to Deny

Building construction and operation creates 38% of global carbon emissions, and as investment in green building accelerates post-pandemic, change in materials and methods are on a path to become common in less than 10 years

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CrewStrong Prevents COVID-19 Shutdowns with Real-time Employee Tracking

Easily track employee movement and interaction across all jobsites in real time, managing virus infection risk

One of the greatest benefits of using a construction time tracking app is that your workers have a stronger sense of accountability.

Increase Construction Productivity with Mobile Time Tracking Apps

Mobile time tracking apps are a great, low-cost way to increase the productivity of your construction business.

Mobile workforce apps for construction that can help you streamline your operations.

7 Ways a Mobile Workforce App Can Streamline Your Construction Business

Mobile workforce apps provide new ways to perform age-old construction tasks; use them to improve outdated workflows, complete projects faster and stay ahead of the competition.

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The Trifecta of Mentoring

Effective mentoring includes a motivated HR leader, a motivated mentee and a committed mentor

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How to Motivate Employees Late in the Construction Season

Help re-energize your leadership and workers down the stretch with these eight “pump up” efforts to exercise at your company

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Contractor’s Gridiron ‘Game Plan’

Split your day into four quarters to achieve the win on the jobsite.

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How to Motivate Employees Late in the Construction Season

Help re-energize your leadership and workers down the stretch with these eight “pump up” efforts to exercise at your company

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Contractor’s Gridiron ‘Game Plan’

Split your day into four quarters to achieve the win on the jobsite.

As the construction workforce continues to age, construction managers must prepare for changes and adjustments in our benefit packages, the manner in which we “man our crews” and what responsibilities we place on our workers

Tips for Managing an Aging Construction Workforce

Seven techniques that construction contractors can put into practice when it comes to managing 'seasoned' employees

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Caterpillar Lays Off 120 Workers at Texas Plant Due to Ongoing Trade War

Trade tensions between the United States and China has forced Caterpillar to layoff 120 temporary workers at a Texas facility.

How much is enough?

How Much Should a Construction Manager Make?

Construction managers make an average of $50,000 to $121,000 per year. How much should you be making or paying your construction managers?

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Verizon Connect’s Fleet Management Software Recognized in 6 G2 Categories

The 2019 G2 Fall Report reveals Verizon as the leader in six different categories relevant to transportation and fleet management.

As difficult as many areas of employee relations has become, it is more critical than ever to scrutinize how you are promoting individuals. Be proactive in using these eight points and you will inspire greater confidence in your new leader and their followers.

How to Avoid Challenges When Promoting Your Construction Employees

Eight best practices and strategies when promoting a worker into a position of greater authority and responsibility

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Develop a Plan to Avert the Employee Shortage

Market your industry and company to potential employees

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HCSS and Command Alkon Partner to Create Value for Partners in Heavy Civil Construction

The companies have aligned around their shared goals of eliminating paper tickets, removing manual tasks and automating data flows so that inter-company operations are easier and more friction-free on the jobsite.

There is an urgent and growing demand for language skills in the U.S. workplace.

Construction Industry's Foreign Language Skills Gap Affects Bottom Line

The construction industry has the largest foreign language skills gap among sectors studied in a recent ACTFL report, and that gap is affecting contractors' ability to pursue business

[APP] Streamline Work Assignment Efficiency with Bridgit Bench

Bridgit Bench gives contractors a view into employees' work schedules: who is assigned to a project, who is over allocated and who is available

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Study: Share of Women Working in Construction Trades in 2018 is the Highest in 20 Years

New analysis from the Institute for Women's Policy Research finds that women’s job growth in construction trades was nearly 5 times faster than job growth in the field overall

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What Minimum-Wage Foes Got Wrong About Seattle

Opponents leaned heavily on an initial study that predicted the increase to $15 would cost workers jobs and hours. That didn’t happen.

“Exorbitant payroll, lost paper time cards, inaccurate job costing – once a company has these problems, they need a solution,” says Cliff Mitchell, CEO of ClockShark.

How Time-tracking Technology has Rendered Time Sheets Obsolete

Labor costs have become too high and too crucial to managing construction costs to trust to paper time sheets filled in at the end of a long day or week

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Verizon Connect Launches Mobile-Workforce Management Solution

One-stop solution can help operations and fleet managers plan, monitor, dispatch and capture form data from the field and adjust work plans throughout the day

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Cloud-based mobile time clock app gives field team managers and employees an at-their-fingertips solution for tracking productivity and boosting jobsite efficiency

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[VIDEO] How Notevault is Making Time Collection Simpler

Derek Davis from Notevault talks about how the company is making time cards easier for construction contractors

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Triax Spot-r and Procore System Integration

Integration between systems allows worksite data from the Triax Spot-r to be automatically sent to Procore's cloud-based project management solution

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Computer Guidance Corp. Adds Time Entry to HRSS Application

Supports the collection, validation, workflow approval and processing of labor hours

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How Skill Training Plays Into Worker Retention

It’s important for contractors to recognize that providing educational opportunities, training classes and personal development for all levels of the workforce can directly impact the retention of workers

Foremen will need to be more hands-on with new hires, invest more time to make sure employees understand their work assignments, and look for more ways to train and coach their people.

The Making of a Leader: Construction Foreman

Vision (1-2 weeks), state of their crew, and proper equipment and tool management will point any construction foremen in the right direction

The 5 Commandments of Bonus Programs

Essential characteristics of an effective bonus system.

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Getting the Best from Your Construction Interns

Author Brad Humphrey shares nine tips on how contractors can get the best from their interns and internship program

People want to follow a leader who has a passionate vision, specific targets and goals, excellent communication skills, cares about them, and lets others be involved in making decisions and taking responsibility to get things done.

How to Be a Leader Your Construction Workers Want to Follow

It’s the leader’s job to discover what makes each person tick, do their best and produce outstanding results for their construction company