Wed.Feb 15, 2017

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Appeals Court Expands Definition of ‘Joint Employer’ in Wage Claims

HR Daily Advisor

Employers in several states are facing a new definition of “joint employment” under federal wage and hour law. The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has adopted a broad test for determining whether two employers are jointly liable for back pay and damages in those claims, making it easier for workers to show a joint employment relationship. Other courts have interpreted the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) too narrowly, the 4th Circuit said.

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The Secret to Small Business Growth? Invest in Your Employees

Cornerstone On Demand

Small businesses are some of the most vital players in the business community, but the rate of failure is staggering. According to Forbes , eight out of 10 small businesses fail within the first 18 months of operation. It's time to learn from their mistakes. A conservative cash position doesn't preclude you from thinking like the larger business you strive to be—your greatest asset as you grow is your employees.

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When Talent is Scarce, This is Where Recruiters Should Focus Their Efforts

Linkedin Talent Blog

When it comes to a recruiting strategy, I usually advocate a 40-40-20 sourcing mix. This means spending 40% of your time networking, 40% searching for candidates online and using campaign marketing to get them to respond to your messaging, and 20% of your time creating compelling job posts that are reverse engineered to be found by those who are looking.

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Heaven Forbid We TALK to Employees!

What is Paul Thinking

I’m jotting this post off in a hurry because the muse is hitting me and I have a full “to-do” list this week. A good friend and smart guy Jason Lauritsen posted in Facebook a link to an article entitled: “Employers are creepily analyzing your emails and Slack chats to see if you’re happy.” And I kid you not the article is exactly what the headline says it is….

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Automate Your Onboarding Process In 7 Steps

Efficient employee onboarding is more than a warm welcome—it's a catalyst for business growth. Automated onboarding transforms new hires into productive team members faster, fostering long-term satisfaction and talent retention. For HR, automation means replacing inefficient manual processes with streamlined, cost-effective operations. Our eBook reveals how automating employee onboarding delivers these benefits, reducing HR challenges and elevating new employee readiness.

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How to Fit Hydration into Your Workplace Wellness Strategy

Hppy

When most people think about hydration, their thoughts usually focus on those things that they can do at home to ensure that they get more water into their bodies. While that is an important component in any hydration effort, it’s important to remember that most of us spend a great deal of time away from our homes each day – including those long hours we spend in the workplace.

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Justwomen 2017: Entrepreneur Ximena Hartsock Talks Corporate Ethics

Justworks

When Ximena Hartsock noticed a gap in the ability for people to contact key people about causes important to them, she cofounded Phone2Action, a digital advocacy platform that helps connect people to their representatives and the White House. Ximena is a Chilean native and came to the United States for graduate school. After finishing a doctoral program at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., she stayed in the U.S. and held several government positions, from school principal to.

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9 Ways to Recruit the Best Talent for Your Startup

Entrepreneur

These are the strategies you need to know to find and keep best of the best.

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How We Started a Hackathon Program

ClearCompany HRM

ClearCompany employees from San Francisco and Fort Collins recently joined their Boston-based colleagues for our company-wide annual meeting. To kick-off a week filled with departmental trainings, annual strategy overviews and goal setting sessions, ClearCompany employees put their minds together and “hacked” out some ideas they wanted to see become a reality.

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Improve Leadership Training Programs with Manager Feedback

TalentCulture

360-degree feedback can bring up a whole host of areas for improvement and goals to be worked towards. Developing based on feedback is important for anyone, regardless of position, experience level or objectives: managers are no exception. Today major companies don’t simply want people who will listen and carry out: they want creative thinkers who will come up with innovative ideas and solutions.

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Modernizing Hiring: The Rise of Contingent Recruitment in 2024

The job market is changing fast, and to stay ahead, your hiring strategy needs to be flexible. With recent economic shifts, more companies are turning to contingent workers for their adaptability and cost savings. In fact, 32% of businesses are already prioritizing contingent over traditional full-time positions. Curious to learn more? In our new guide, you'll discover: The major benefits of incorporating contingent workers into your team.

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How Millennials Can Manage An Aging Workforce

TLNT: The Business of HR

Google “managing millennials” and you get millions of results. Google “millennial managers” and fewer than 10,000 results show up.

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Leadership in 3 Time Zones

ATD Human Capital

ATD Human Capital is pleased to announce that John Childress will be a regular columnist for our blog, and will provide insightful comments and ideas on culture and human capital. Endorsed by Marshall Goldsmith and Stephen M.R. Covey, John brings a unique perspective to navigating change and delivering superior performance. My daughter was first violin and leader of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain a few years ago.

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It’s Time For HR to Do Things Differently

TLNT: The Business of HR

It’s an age-old problem – sticking in the comfort zone of the tried and tested, clutching tightly to tools and techniques just because we have experience of them.

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Preferred Methods of Communicating with KD, Ranked.

The HR Capitalist

Because email's not dead, it's just been shoved to the side a little bit by a younger, sleeker option called Text. Here's the preferred methods of communicating with me, ranked with color commentary notes: 1. Text - Took a little longer for me to get here, but there's now a chance a text may get buried before I respond, seems like it rules the day for the top 15 people I communicate with daily. 2.

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The Essential Performance Review Checklist

Performance reviews are a proactive way to engage with your employees, provide clear communication about expectations, and acknowledge them for their hard work. But getting the right framework and creating consistency across your organization can be tricky. We put together this checklist to help you evaluate your current performance review process and equip managers with the right tools to perform individual assessments.

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This Report Will Convince You Candidate Experience Matters

TLNT: The Business of HR

Well, it’s that time of year. All kinds of new research reports are being published – the kinds of reports that we collect and never seem to have enough time to read. We’ve all got them on our hard drives. But here’s one you’ll download and read. Multiple times. The information is that useful!

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Control in times of uncertainty: how can you combat change fatigue?

HR Zone

Change. How can you combat change fatigue?

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How to Help Recognition Stick with Collaborative Tools

Bonusly

People no longer stay at companies for life. They want to work where they have freedom to use their preferred apps, tools, and devices, and in an environment that allows them to work on their own terms, inside or outside of the office, and with flexible hours that fit their busy personal lives. In this age of the empowered employee, it’s important for companies to create and nurture a culture of recognition that inspires employees to devote their time, skills, and brain power to help an organiza

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Drop the Jargon

Laurie Ruettimann

I used to think there were a lot of buzzwords and jargon in HR, especially when it came to the war for talent and searching for the purple squirrel. Then I worked in marketing, and I learned to dimensionalize everything and evolve the brand. But, now that I have a nascent software company, I’ve discovered that there’s a whole new level of jargon.

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An HR Leaders Guide: 7 Questions To Ask When Developing Your Cancer Strategy

As HR and Benefits leaders are in the midst of evaluating cancer care solutions and designing their requirements for vendors, it’s key to know what questions to ask to ensure the development of a truly comprehensive strategy: from prevention to diagnosis to treatment to survivorship. Getting to the right answers starts with asking the right questions: How can better access improve engagement?

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How Top Professional Firms Put Employee Development First

Great Place to Work

No one becomes a lawyer, public accountant or business consultant without a healthy love for learning. People in professional services aren’t just expected to stay ahead of trends in their industries; their level of knowledge is a kind of personal currency that adds value to their businesses and careers. So, it’s no surprise that our Best Workplaces in Professional Services & Consulting , recently published in Fortune, make the most of employees’ interests and aspirations w

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What makes the Japanese railways so efficient?

HR Zone

Business. What makes the Japanese railways so efficient?

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PayScale’s 2017 Compensation Best Practices Report Is Here

Compensation Today

Today we release the eighth annual installment of PayScale’s Compensation Best Practices Report. A strong theme emerged this year showcasing the connection between compensation and organizational culture. There is evidence that some organizations have discovered this connection, linked compensation with culture and – as a result – are thriving. But, for most, there’s pretty big disconnect between how employers think their employees feel about pay and how employees actually feel.

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Building a workplace that’s fit for the future

HR Zone

Culture. Building a workplace that’s fit for the future.

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AI & DEI: With Great Opportunities Comes Great HR Responsibility

Speaker: Jen Kirkwood - Partner, Responsible HR & AI at IBM and World Economic Forum Executive Fellow

The promise of AI for today’s organizations is real, yet in a frenzied state of experimentation, many stumble to get to a full-scale enterprise. As companies race to discover what generative AI can do, HR must lead conversations about how to balance cutting-edge innovations with integrity, trust, and diversity. Globally, organizations are at a critical intersection of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and AI acceleration.

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Hey Recruiter! No Brand? No Game.

NoExcusesHR

"All of us need to understand the importance of branding. We are CEOs of our own companies: Me, Inc. To be in business today, our most important job is to be head marketer for the brand called You." - Tom Peters It's Not A Fad The notion that individual recruiters don't need to worry about their brand as long as they work for, or represent organizations with a strong brand, is a fallacy.

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How to Build and Implement an Employee Loyalty Program

Paychex

As consumer loyalty programs are designed to strengthen the connection between the customer and the company brand, similar workforce loyalty programs can help build the employer and employee bond. Review the following steps for building an employee loyalty program in your business.

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Remote Work is Helping Aspies to Finally Shine

Workology

Of all the work-capable disabilities, syndromes, and conditions, those with Asperger’s and especially Autism have the lowest employment rates. This is a startling fact, especially for those who know. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution.

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8 tips for powerful employer branding content

Papirfly

Candidates want to know what to expect from a new role, your company culture and colleagues. You need to paint a very clear picture and communicate your messages in an authentic manner. Achieve this by creating amazing employer branding content. We know this can be resource intensive but we promise it pays off. Here are 8 tips to create powerful content to give you an edge.

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Early Tenure Turnover: Stop the Revolving Door of Hires

Speaker: Dr. Craig Ellis, Head of I-O Psychology, HighMatch

Are you facing a revolving door of hires, especially within their first 90 days of employment? In this webinar, Dr. Craig Ellis, a leading industrial-organizational (I-O) psychologist, offers insights and strategies to unravel the mystery behind early tenure turnover. Identify the root causes of early attrition to mitigate turnover’s impact in the first 12 months.

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Tips for Safety Incentive Programs

HR Daily Advisor

Given that safety issues in the workplace can literally be of life or death importance, it makes sense that an organization would do everything in its power to minimize any and all safety risks. Employers have a lot of tools at their disposal to improve and maintain safety in the workplace and plenty of reason to do so. Besides the obvious desire to keep employees free of preventable injury or illness, there’s also the productivity gains that can be had from minimizing employee and machine downt

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FLSA ruling: When you don’t have to pay workers for training time

HR Morning

A U.S. District Court just gave employers a helpful example of when it’s okay to NOT pay workers for the time they spend in training. . The court acknowledged the Department of Labor (DOL) has six criteria for deciding whether a worker crosses the line from being a non-compensable “trainee” to a compensated “employee” under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).

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Employers Advised to Be Careful Dealing with Immigrant Protests

HR Daily Advisor

by Jacob M. Monty, Monty & Ramirez, LLP. Employers need to be aware of legal risks associated with how they handle various protests related to immigrants in the United States, including a boycott and work stoppage planned for February 16. The “A Day Without Immigrants” campaign is encouraging immigrant employees to stay home from work, immigrant-owned businesses to close, immigrant students to stay home from school, and immigrant customers to refrain from making any purchases on February 16.