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Intrinsic rewards tap into human psychology. A continuous reward process improves employee satisfaction and performance.

In this blog we discuss extrinsic vs. intrinsic rewards and why employers, job recruiters, and employees are focusing on the intrinsic rewards jobs have – especially Millennial workers.

It’s hard to predict all the ripples that self-driving cars will create. However, if you’re an auto tech who is uncomfortable with technology or change, you might want to consider a career change.

The Payday Loan Rule adopted by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau last year would be bad news for consumers who rely on small-dollar payday loans to pay emergency expenses.

It’s important to know what the U.S. Government considers sexual harassment to be, how you can recognize it, and what to do if it happens in your workplace.

Every auto shop owner or manager should be asking, “Do the women who work in my shop feel safe, respected, and able to come to me if they experience sexual harassment or assault?”

If you do not know what immigration law requires of your business, your company could face fines, disruption of business, or worse.

Given the crackdown on illegal aliens, your shop takes serious risks when it employs them, including fines, disruption, and even prison time.

A number of industries are known for hiring a large number of illegal aliens in order to save money, and one of them, unfortunately, is the auto repair industry.

Auto techs must decide for themselves which job requirements are acceptable. There are many ranking factors, including auto tech wages.

American wages have stagnated, and many people do not work at all. Adjusted for inflation, many workers make far less than their counterparts in the 1970s and 1980s.

How busy is your shop during the holidays? How much bargaining do you and your coworkers have to do in order to take holiday time off in December?

The recent Chicago Auto Mechanics’ Strike illustrated some of the things at stake in the push and pull between techs and dealers as well as the benefits of collective bargaining power.

How would a new overtime pay ruling from the Department of Labor affect your auto repair shop?

As more and more auto repair shops have gone to a paperless operations process, their managers have discovered the many advantages of running their shops using digital files only.

Is one reason for the tech shortage in today’s auto repair industry the new epidemic of drug use by Americans?

Many auto techs argue that there are many qualified and hardworking techs in the field, the problem is that owners do not want to compensate them fairly for their time and skill.

In the dialogue between auto repair shop managers and workers, one frustrated complaint comes up over and over again from the management side: auto techs are too unreliable.

Today’s auto technicians have to be comfortable with learning and change, and they have to be willing to spend more time in the classroom in order to keep doing their jobs.

In examining the pros and cons of working at independent auto repair shops vs. dealerships, one issue that arises for auto techs is benefits.