Sat.Sep 10, 2016

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The Staggering Cost of Workplace Injury and How to Avoid It

Total Employee Recognition

According to the United States Department of Labor's Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA), workplace injuries cost American businesses a hefty price. Employers pay out nearly $1 billion every week for direct workers' compensation costs. That does not include the additional costs incurred from medical expenses or legal services. Indirect costs add to the total: training replacement employees, accident investigations, utilizing corrective measures, a loss in productivity, repairs

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weekend free-for-all – September 10-11, 2016

Ask a Manager

This comment section is open for any non-work-related discussion you’d like to have with other readers, by popular demand. (This one is truly no work and no school. If you have a work question, you can email it to me or post it in the work-related open thread on Fridays.). Book recommendation of the week: How to Party with an Infant , by Kaui Hart Hemmings.

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5 Biggest Performance Management Mistakes That You Should Never Make

Engagedly

Performance reviews play an important role in an employee’s work life. They decide if an employee had worked well enough to get a promotion, a raise etc. Most people are conscientious about how they handle performance reviews. After […].

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Teambuilding Options for Remote Workers

HR Daily Advisor

More and more workplaces are offering some form of flexibility in terms of where an employee works. Some organizations have even developed a 100% “virtual” workforce—having no central offices where employees gather and instead allowing all employees to work from home or wherever they happen to be. Other employers have chosen to allow more flexibility while still keeping a more traditional office setup; they may allow telecommuting for certain roles or for X days per week, for example.

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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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Remembering 9/11/2001: Let’s Give ’em Hell!

In Full Bloom HR

For this 15th anniversary of jihadist Islam’s declaration of war on the United States, I wanted to express my anger at what this war has cost all of us in the loss of privacy and freedom as well as in human lives and treasure. It’s a war whose enemy combatants wear no recognizable uniforms, dwell in the shadows, and do not recognize the Geneva Conventions.