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Creative Resource Planning: Building Your Roadmap for Long-Term Success

As the year winds down and we turn our attention to FY25, it’s the perfect time to reflect on what’s next. At Sandy, we’ve been in your shoes with many of our clients, helping juggle tight budgets, managing ambitious goals, and tackling the challenge of finding the right creative resources to meet their needs. We …

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Building Your In-House Team: Find the Right Talent and Avoid Hiring Mistakes

One of the biggest challenges in growing a successful business is finding the right talent. When you’ve got a strong team, it’s like having a secret weapon – they ignite creativity, boost productivity, and bring next-level innovation. When everyone’s firing on all cylinders, employee morale skyrockets, retention improves, and your team is at the top …

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Work Sandy Makes 2024 Inc. 5000 List of Fastest-Growing U.S. Companies

Work Sandy, a leader in creative resourcing solutions for businesses and agencies, is proud to announce its inclusion in the 2024 edition of Inc. Magazine’s prestigious Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing private companies in the United States. As a young company, Work Sandy is proud to join the ranks of notable brands like Microsoft, Meta, Chobani, Under …

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Quiet Quitting’s Root Cause

There’s a lot about “Quiet Quitting” that feels a lot like the “Great Resignation.” It’s a headline-friendly phrase that induces head nods from employees and beads of sweat from managers. It’s also a product of the pandemic – of course being forced to adapt to untested work structures en masse during a public health crisis …

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A Guide to Boosting Employee Morale

The 5 Languages of Love. Chances are, you’ve heard of the idea. Gary Chapman’s book, published in 1992, took the self-help world by storm. The idea of the book was that people give (and receive) love in different ways. If you want to know your partner best and be the happiest in your relationships, you …

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Your Values May Be Changing!

There’s a Yiddish word, “shvach” which means to feel “weak, listless, enervated, slightly nauseated.” Without knowing the word, thousands and thousands of people are feeling shvach every day about the jobs and careers they used to love before the pandemic. Where once they felt excited and energized, now there are entire sections of the workforce …

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40+ Workers and the Great Resignation

When conversation heats up in the work-world, we’re listening to learn and bring you the topics worth talking about. Here’s one you might want to think about! The latest group of folks to jump on the Great Resignation bandwagon isn’t who you imagine it is – it’s middle-aged workers with lots of tenure and …

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Do Workplace ‘Rockstars’ Need a Supportive Partner?

Sometimes we learn really cool things from really cool people. When we do, we consider it our job to share it with you so that you can do some thinking and dig deeper for yourself! Anne Helen Peterson is one of our favorite thought leaders in areas at the intersection of work and culture. This …

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Can People Achieve More in Less Time?

“There has been no correlation between working more hours and better productivity.” This is what Democratic Assembly member Cristina Garcia, is quoted as saying in a recent article on CNBC. As a freelance worker, this is a truth you may be living personally – it may even be one of the reasons you left the …

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