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#WorldMentalHealthDay: 9 ways to support mental wellbeing in the workplace

Workstars

Improving mental health and wellbeing is a global challenge and it’s every bit as important inside the workplace as it is outside.

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Tackling Low Scores on Employee Engagement Surveys

Paddle HR

Time and time again, research indicates a direct link between good employee engagement and productivity. Most enterprise companies measure employee engagement through employee engagement surveys. Despite being the “go-to” measurement tool for large companies, these surveys can still be a touchy subject for leadership and employees alike. Human resources professionals and business leaders often complain there’s not enough participation.

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We All Want to Belong at Work

ADP

When I started to consider belonging at work, I knew exactly who to call - ADP's business anthropologist, Martha Bird. Here's some of our conversation.

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Why Smart Staffing Firms Are Training Associates

Penn Foster

As the skills gap puts pressure on businesses in various industries, those businesses turn to staffing firms to fill open positions. There’s just one problem; staffing firms are facing the same challenges as the businesses they’re supporting. Record low unemployment rates, weak workforce participation rates and changing skills demands make finding the right temporary employee more difficult than ever.

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Performance Review Calibrations Made Easy

Every company aspires to be the best, and performance reviews are the cornerstone of that journey. However, discrepancies in how managers rate their teams can lead to unfairness.

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What is Recruitment Operations?

Yello

Today’s employers are contending with a labor shortage and skills gaps, while racing to define what the future of work looks like. To efficiently and effectively identify, assess and hire talent now and in the future, companies are looking to streamline their recruiting strategy, improve hiring processes, and speed things up. The question is: How?

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People Analytics Maturity: Where Are You on Your Journey? [Quiz]

Visier

People analytics has been trending in the HR community for a decade now, but the majority of organizations are still only in the earliest stages of analytics adoption. This has been partially due to the financial barriers of people analytics solutions—the cost of having an in-house analytics team and the price point of most analytics solutions have been prohibitive for midsize organizations. . 74% of all organizations surveyed by Deloitte see the future of HR cloud technologies as important, but

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Why Every Business Should Consider Cyber Liability Insurance

Justworks

Running a business, regardless of its size or industry, entails a lot of hard work and discipline. And making sure your day-to-day operations go smoothly requires you to invest the right time and resources. Keeping those investments protected is important, which is why businesses carry insurance to cover a variety of business assets. Some of the most common policies business owners are familiar with are general liability, commercial property, and worker’s compensation insurance, which cover.

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Get to Know the ACA’s Statewide Individual Mandates

ACA Times

3 minute read: In January 2019, the federal Individual Mandate was effectively eliminated. Many states responded by implementing their own and some of them have both employer and employee penalties tied to them. Currently, California , the District of Columbia, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Rhode Island, and Vermont have written into law statewide Individual Mandates.

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Recruiting trends in 2020: 6 tactics you’ll want to sharpen up on

HR Morning

Business success depends on a variety of factors, and the recruiting trend landscape is no exception. An analysis of today’s market suggests an economy shaped by several factors, including a gig economy that continues to expand, and a skills gap bemoaned by many HR professionals. What’s shaping recruiting trends? The unemployment rate hovers at a record-low of 3.5%, a number that has steadily decreased every year since the height of the 2008 financial crisis.

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Balancing Cost and Care: 3 Key Considerations for Cost Optimization in 2024

Discover essential strategies for employers to balance cost optimization with care. The top priorities for employers in 2024 are retaining talent, growing revenue and sales, and attracting talent. To achieve these goals, employers are turning towards comprehensive total rewards strategies informed by data-driven insights. Hear from industry experts on cost optimization strategies and how to leverage these approaches for a healthier workforce.

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5 Things to Consider Before Hiring a New Employee

Hppy

unsplash.com. As your company grows in clientele or products, you’re bound to face to inevitable—you’ll need to bring on more resources to manage the growth. If you’re currently in this position, here’s five considerations that may help: . . 1. Is Hiring a New Employee Truly Necessary and Do You Have Means to Do So? . Thanks to the way the businesses operate in the 21st century, today’s business owners have all sorts of options at their disposal regarding hiring

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The Comprehensive Performance Management Checklist

Engagedly

No matter how many times you go through the performance review process, it can still send chills down your spine or alternatively give you sweaty, clammy hands. I know that even after all these years, I experience paroxysms […].

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Mentorships Forge Connections to Transfer Knowledge

Allegis Global Solutions

Knowledge-sharing relationships between experienced workers and those who seek to learn from them are a useful approach to cultivating skills throughout the workforce. In a mentorship program, organizations set up formalized structures with an established learning goal, targeted participants (both mentors and mentees), and a format for interaction. The result is a development approach that accelerates the learning curve with real-world, human interaction and a practical perspective on the skills

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What Employees Think About Inclusion in the Workplace [New Research]

Quantum Workplace

Diversity and inclusion go hand-in-hand in the workplace. While diversity is about having a mix of people with differences and similarities, inclusion is about creating a fair and safe environment that supports and empowers that mix of people.

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Discover the 4 Big Recruitment Challenges for 2024

It’s no secret that today’s hiring market is tough! The constant changes can make it seem impossible for HR leaders, hiring teams, and hiring managers to remain flexible and agile. However, there’s a silver lining amongst all the hiring chaos, as these changes also bring great opportunities and fresh ways for HR leaders to gain that competitive edge in the race for top talent.

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7 Organizational Change Management Frameworks That Stick

Remesh

Organizational change management (OCM) is a framework for managing the effect of new business processes or changes in organizational and cultural structures. Overall, OCM addresses the people side of change management, whereas other facts of change management address strategies related to corporate organizations.

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Five Inspirational Videos for Leaders to Watch This Month

Engagedly

How to Start a Movement – In a short three minutes, Derek Sivers discusses the power of courage, and the necessity of following, in a world that can over-glorify leadership, with his crucial point being “If you really […].

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Keys to promote mental health awareness and ease employee stress

HR Morning

Though health insurance coverage for mental health has steadily improved in recent years, experts say support for mental health awareness in the workplace hasn’t kept pace. Here’s why that’s notable: More than 200 million workdays are lost due to mental health conditions each year ($16.8 billion in employee productivity). Three in five employees say they’ve never spoken to anyone at work about their mental health status.

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Let’s Take Care of Us, Too

SHRM

Human resources professionals, today is World Mental Health Day. Let’s chat. I recently had an experience at an event where I got the opportunity to have extended sit-down conversations with HR professionals about what is keeping them up at night in terms of their workplace processes. As an HR practitioner for years, I’ve been there. The long days that turn into long nights, the weekdays that turn into working weekends, the 24/7 connected world that we live in.

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Correct & Prevent I-9 Errors: Your 2024 Audit Toolkit

Simplify your I-9 compliance process and minimize the risk of costly fines with WorkBright’s comprehensive audit toolkit. Created in collaboration with employment law experts, this essential two-part guide will help you conduct a thorough internal audit in 2024. The first section outlines a three-step process for ensuring error-free and compliant I-9s, followed by two printable checklists to streamline your audit process.

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5 Misconceptions We Need to Unlearn About Company Culture

Fond

When your manager is consistently late to your 1:1s (or cancels them) and then talks the whole time. . When promotions happen randomly instead of being based on any of the defined promotional criteria. When you’re part of an interview panel and the hiring manager says a candidate isn’t a good fit because they can’t “see themselves having a beer with the candidate.” When you walk by your company’s core values hanging on the wall and think more about how cool the design is instea

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How to Improve Mental Health at the Office

Evil HR Lady

It’s open enrollment season–the time in which you can change your healthcare plan for the upcoming year. While all companies don’t use the calendar year, many do. You should pay special attention to the mental health coverage in your chosen plan. If you’re the HR person tasked with finding the best plan for your company for 2020, it’s probably already done with the contracts signed, but keep in mind the importance of mental healthcare coverage.

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How to Make Your Lunch Hour More Productive

Take It Personel-ly

There are many ways in which people decide to spend their lunch break. Some people take the opportunity to catch up with their friends at work. Others leave the office to visit local shops or eat their lunch at their desk. How people spend their lunch break may not seem that important, but it can […].

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6 clever add-ons you need for your intranet

ThoughtFarmer

Whether you are a seasoned intranet manager, or are just now embarking on the journey to purchasing intranet software, you probably have realized that not all intranet platforms are the same. . Out of the box, ThoughtFarmer provides all the key features that you need to build a great intranet without requiring loads of customization like what SharePoint requires.

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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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Five Tips on Using Student Loan Assistance Programs to Attract and Retain Employees

ADP

Tip #1: Offer this benefit in a competitive talent market. Unemployment is low Offering student loan assistance can help maximize your impact and.

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3 Tips to Shift Your Talent Acquisition Strategy With the Changing Market

Spark Hire

In 2018, Korn and Ferry estimated there will be a global human talent shortage of more than 85 million people by 2030. Just a few months ago, this seemed to be a highly-believable estimate. However, now there are predictions of a 2020 recession, meaning talent acquisition pros could see an unexpected flood of candidates. Yet despite the projected 2020 outlook, Jeff Daniels, a reporter at CNBC , says the national economy is forecasted to rebound in 2021.

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5 Manager Recognition Examples | Reward Gateway

Reward Gateway

4 min read. Each and every individual at your organization has the power to influence recognition. But those that lead teams — your managers — arguably wield the greatest influence. I’ve spent years training teams of all sizes, from all industries on how to incorporate employee recognition best practices into their day-to-day, and I really believe in the results that manager-led recognition can create.

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Reimagine excellence: manage performance to free sustainable value

HR Zone

Culture Free people to create sustainable value.

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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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Recruitment Marketing: The Ultimate Guide

Ongig

Recruitment marketing is vital to talent acquisition. In this guide I share a primer on recruitment marketing with hopefully-helpful tips, including: My definition of recruitment marketing. The 6 stages of the recruiting funnel. 4 recruitment marketing strategies. The 3 major benefits you’ll see from effective recruitment marketing. So if you want to engage more candidates and increase the awareness of your employer brand, you’ll love this.

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requesting accommodations at work: share your experiences

Ask a Manager

It’s the Thursday “ask the readers” question. A reader writes: I’m about to start the process of requesting accommodations at work. I’d like to hear about people’s experience doing this — what they asked for, how they asked for it, and what the outcome was. I’m interested in stories in general, but especially if anyone has experience in requesting accommodations while working as a K-12 educator.

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How the Internet Applicant Rule Affects Modern Recruitment

The Applicant Manager

If you are a federal contractor, you are probably aware that there are significant recordkeeping requirements for job applicants applying through the Internet. What you may not have considered is how the Internet Applicant Rule strongly ties to your use of modern recruitment solutions using applicant tracking systems (ATS) for federal contracts. If your ATS fails to follow Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) compliance rules, an audit could cost you thousands.