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Rethinking Onboarding From a People Ops Perspective

Zenefits

Credited with popularizing the term and philosophy of People Ops, Block coined the term when he rebranded Google’s HR function in 2006 to reflect the company’s people-first employment ideology. Trying to reduce employee turnover. Access compliance checklists for hiring, paperwork, and benefits information. Trying to run payroll.

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How HR Can Tackle Diversity Using the Rooney Rule

Visier

The results were impressive – minority head coaching hires in the NFL increased from 6% to 22% in 2006 – and as the White House strives to show, the implications of the rule can be far-reaching. Consequences of this can range from reduced competitiveness and productivity to increased employee turnover to higher compensation costs.

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Design a Great Employee Experience With People Operations

Zenefits

There are many factors that impact employee hiring and retention: compensation, benefits, a trendy office … but what employers sometimes overlook is offering a positive, holistic employee experience. Employee experience produces a major impact on hiring and retention, and your company’s bottom line. Improved recruitment and retention.

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HR Versus People Ops: What You Need to Know

Pingboard

Enforcing compliance. Boosting employee engagement and retention . Google kicked off this trend in 2006 by renaming its human resources department to people operations. . Noticing an issue with retention, the people ops team got to the bottom of it and came up with a creative solution. . Traditional HR Roles.

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Why Visiting the Manufacturing Floor is Key for HR

BirdDogHR

Whereas nearly half of all production workers were paid by hourly wage in 2006, today, just one quarter of manufacturing employees are paid hourly. Visiting the manufacturing floor can help your department get a better sense of how to best engage salaried, skilled employees over time, which will help with retention and workplace happiness.

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Podcast: HR vs People Ops – What’s the Difference?

Pingboard

So HR historically is focused on things like compliance. So daily activities or projects they work on could include reducing time to hire, improving employee engagement, establishing a strong company culture and increasing employee retention. What I learned is that Google started this trend all the way back in 2006.

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Podcast: HR vs People Ops – What’s the Difference?

Pingboard

So HR historically is focused on things like compliance. So daily activities or projects they work on could include reducing time to hire, improving employee engagement, establishing a strong company culture and increasing employee retention. What I learned is that Google started this trend all the way back in 2006.