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Is the HR Accountable for Mass Layoffs?

Keka HR Blog

Two years later, you were there when it happened: the layoff Time: 4 a.m. The phone of Blair Bolick, a recruiter at Google, chimed while she was sleeping peacefully on a March night. “We regret to inform you that, effective immediately, your position is being eliminated.” . The promotions and the increments. Is Industry 4.0

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How Career Re-Entry Programs Are Tackling the Gender Gap One Hire at a Time

Cornerstone On Demand

"These women are ready to re-engage with the workforce and they're excited about it because they've been away for a while—they're taking fewer maternity leaves, their spouses aren't moving for work and they're in a more settled time of their life." " Wanted: Financial and Legal Female Professionals.

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This is not the time to think small

Thrive Global

Some analysts say that we are going to go into a deep recession, while others think it’s being overhyped by the media as a turbulent economy/recession by virus is much different than a turbulent economy/recession caused by the financial system collapsing like it did in 2008. social, economic and tech trends).

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Is the HR Accountable for the Mass Layoffs?

Keka HR Blog

Two years later, you were there when it happened: the layoff Time: 4 a.m. The phone of Blair Bolick, a recruiter at Google, chimed while she was sleeping peacefully on a March night. “We regret to inform you that, effective immediately, your position is being eliminated.” . The promotions and the increments. Is Industry 4.0

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Compensation Trends: Disruption in Action at the 2017 Total Rewards Show

Compensation Today

Sheahan spoke compellingly about the need for today’s organizations to overcome the “relentless force of commoditization,” where new ideas become table stakes in an ever-shortening period of time and the winners are organizations that keep innovating. He said, “Big ideas always start with questioning what we think we know.”

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The Suicide Epidemic: Turning to Your EAP for Solutions in Times of Crisis

ACI Specialty Benefits

Pulitzer Prize nominee David Foster Wallace, one of the most celebrated authors of our time, published his critically acclaimed novel Infinite Jest in 1996. In 2008 his wife found him dead, having hanged himself at the age of 46. It’s time to get real about mental health in the workplace. Monday, March 11, 2019. 2:35 p.m. –

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Plan for COVID-19 Workplace Response

Affinity HR Group

The physician to the Congress advised members of Congress that current trends show 70 – 150 million people in the US will become infected with COVID-19. Consider allowing them to work from home or granting time off without penalty so they can reduce their exposure. Do not hold meetings with more than 250 employees at a time.