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7 Differences Between Hiring Remote and In-house Workers

Hppy

What used to be a weird dream at the beginning of 20 th century now is an integral part of modern life. I bet your grannies could have imagined working for a company situated in the other part of the world. But now work at a distance won’t surprise anybody. However, such shift on the job market implies some changes in HR workflow. Let’s take a look at the differences in hiring remote employees and in-house staff.

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M&A Friday! This Week’s HR Deals

Advos

Happy Friday. Our weekly recap of funding, mergers & acquisition, and partnership news from the human resource, recruitment and employee benefits marketplace is below. Sign-up for our weekly Hot in HR newsletter to get these updates via email. FUNDING. Goldman Sachs invests £100 million in Neyber, a fintech startup that lets people borrow money and repay through their salaries.

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Is Talent Acquisition Wasting Your Hiring Manager’s Time?

The Tim Sackett Project

I had a conversation the other day with a corporate HR Director and we were talking recruiters, corporate recruiters. My friend had a dilemma, a classic corporate recruiting scenario. The problem is she has recruiters who are doing a decent job, but they won’t get out from behind their desk and get out into the organization and get face-to-face feedback from the hiring managers.

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Should Employees Receive an Auto Allowance – Ask #HR Bartender

HR Bartender

At first glance, this might seem like a unique situation. But employees sometimes get asked to use their personal vehicles to run errands or drop stuff off at another location all the time. Today’s reader note is about how employees should be paid for mileage. I live in Florida and am a construction superintendent. Part of my job involves traveling between job sites to pick up/drop off supplies as needed.

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The Rules Do Apply: Navigating HR Compliance

Speaker: Ann Meyers Piccirillo

HR Compliance is like a giant game of whack-a-mole. Once you think your company is compliant with all policies and procedures documented and in place, there’s a new or amended law, regulation, or final rule that pops up landing you back at ‘start.’ There are shifts, interpretations, and balancing acts to understanding compliance changes. Keeping up is not easy and it’s very time consuming.

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Don’t Let a Natural Disaster Destroy Your Business Without a Fight. Here is What You Can Do, Starting Now, to Prepare

Trinet

We have all recently witnessed how devastating natural disasters can be--destroying lives, businesses and property in an instant. The challenges to a business owner in the face of a natural disaster can quickly become overwhelming. Here are just a few actions small and midsize business (SMB) leaders should take before, during and after a natural disaster.

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What Are You Doing to Build a Diverse Workforce?

Kazoo

In the last few months, workplace diversity has become a regular topic in the news and an urgent priority discussed in boardrooms. As businesses accelerate diversity programs – specifically for women in tech roles — other organizations have stepped up to the plate to offer networking and professional opportunities that would have been unheard of years ago.

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Does Apologizing Make You Look Weak as an HR Pro?

The HR Capitalist

I'm sorry to tell you this, but yes. See what I did there? I apologized in advance for telling you that you apologize too much as an HR pro. THAT'S A PRO MOVE, PEOPLE. But I digress. Here's the deal - as HR pros, we're hard-wired to do things automatically that no one else wants to do - tell people nice job, recognize people for their contributions, listen to someone vent when no one else will, etc.

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What Are You Doing to Build a Diverse Workforce?

Kazoo

In the last few months, workplace diversity has become a regular topic in the news and an urgent priority discussed in boardrooms. As businesses accelerate diversity programs – specifically for women in tech roles — other organizations have stepped up to the plate to offer networking and professional opportunities that would have been unheard of years ago.

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Five Lessons for the Modern Corporate Well-Being Program

TalentCulture

For many companies—depending on the industry—summer brings a welcome opportunity to loosen up our workdays and take some time off to enjoy fun activities along with an extra dose of sunshine and come back to work refreshed. And as we’re now more than halfway into 2017, I’d encourage you to call upon this refreshed state of mind as you consider your employee well-being initiatives: What’s working?

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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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20 Unbelievable Workplace Perks

Namely

Company culture has become the most important factor in attracting and retaining employees, so it’s more crucial than ever to offer perks that resonate. As more companies restructure their benefits offerings, many are turning to creative perks to showcase their culture, attract prospective employees, and increase employee happiness. To help inspire you, we’ve rounded up 20 of the most innovative perks offered right now: 1.

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#WorkTrends Recap: Building Great Cultures

TalentCulture

A great workplace culture where employees can thrive and take an organization to the next level can have a lasting impact on recruitment, retention, and the bottom line. But how do you get there? Culture is more than perks and benefits; it starts at the highest level and requires a commitment from everyone in the organization. It’s about transparency, communication, trust, and engagement.

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Engaging Modern Workforce with Mobile HR Software

SutiHR

Modern employees need innovation and collaboration to feel engaged. When they are involved they are more productive and perform better. One of the best ways to engage the modern workforce is to enhance employee experience with the latest technology. Mobile HR software empowers HR teams to accomplish key tasks such as hiring top talent, improving. The post Engaging Modern Workforce with Mobile HR Software appeared first on SutiHR.

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did my employee quit or is she in a ditch somewhere?

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: My mom just called to ask for advice. She hired a new office manager, “Jane,” a few months ago. Yesterday Jane left for lunch and never came back. She had some performance issues, so my mom thinks she may have quit, but she’s also worried Jane might be in a ditch somewhere. Jane hasn’t answered the phone or text messages.

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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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Stand-Up Desks, Alternative Chairs, and Modern Ergonomics: Options for a Healthy Workplace

Paychex

Employee discomfort, illness, and even injury associated with poor ergonomics can cost your business money and productivity. Evaluate some options you can put in place to create a healthy workplace for your team.

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It's time to re-think your approach to HR Reporting

Hire Road

Of all the questions our Customer Success Team gets asked, one of the most common is: “What should I include in my HR Report?”. The reality is, when it comes to reporting - whether that’s monthly, quarterly or annually - most do what they’ve always done - they produce reports on auto-pilot, presenting the same metrics over and over. At PeopleInsight, we find that once the burden of manually prepping the data is removed from our customers’ plate, they have time to focus on the analytics and refle

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7 Tips to Increase Pay Transparency in Your Organization

BambooHR

This post originally appeared on PayScale’s blog, Compensation Today Pay transparency has increased in prevalence over the past few years, and with good reason. Transparent pay practices lead to higher satisfaction and lower intent to leave, according to a 2015 PayScale study. Transparency also improves performance, according to this study in a restaurant setting.

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PODCAST: #HRHappyHour 296 - HR Gives Back 2017

Steve Boese

HR Happy Hour 296 - HR Gives Back 2017. Hosts: Steve Boese , Trish McFarlane. Guest: Mollie Lombardi. Listen HERE. This week on the HR Happy Hour Show, Steve and Trish welcome Mollie Lombardi from Aptitude Research Partners to talk about HR Gives Back , an initiative to support and raise funds for Parkinson's Disease research. HR Gives Back was started by a group of HR industry veterans and is an all-volunteer effort to connect the generosity of the HR technology community to causes we believe i

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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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How to Get Useful Feedback from Your Employees

TLNT: The Business of HR

Chances are that if you are in a position where you supervise or manage employees beneath you, you’ve put a lot of effort into giving your junior team members the feedback they need to grow and improve. But have you worked to get feedback from them for your own growth?

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7 Steps To Setting Workplace Goals And Making Them Happen!

Engagedly

We all crave success, but success doesn’t come easily! Everyone has a different definition for success depending on their ability, job level and needs. The first step to achieving success is setting effective goals; the next is creating […].

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4 Tips for Your Compensation Planning from the Banking Industry

HR Daily Advisor

Banking is a highly regulated industry. Oversight by an alphabet soup of government agencies means that your bank accounts enjoy security against fraud, corruption, and just plain mistakes. It’s no secret that the recession of 2007/08 resulted in an array of new regulations, especially in the financial services arena. Banking, especially, became subject to new regulation intended to avoid the circumstances that originally led to the recession.

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7 Tips to Increase Pay Transparency in Your Organization

BambooHR

This post originally appeared on PayScale’s blog, Compensation Today Pay transparency has increased in prevalence over the past few years, and with good reason. Transparent pay practices lead to higher satisfaction and lower intent to leave, according to a 2015 PayScale study. Transparency also improves performance, according to this study in a restaurant setting.

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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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Behavioral Action Plan: Coaching Your Client to Success

Extended DISC

What’s the next step now that you’ve reviewed your client’s DISC report or Sales Competence Assessment? Start on a Behavioral Action Plan to take your client to the next level of success. The goal of the Behavioral Action Plan is to identify and list key behaviors your client can modify to achieve their goals. It helps your client create a planned series of steps.

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3 Tips to Overcome Fear of Change in the Workplace

Quantum Workplace

You’ve likely heard this saying many times before: “The only constant in life is change.” Yet if change is the one thing in life that’s inevitable, then why are we employees so horrible at dealing with it? One word: fear. Our fear of change in the workplace can inhibit our ability to embrace the new and better and focus our attention on something much more disengaging – the unknown.

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GE is Reinventing Talent Management

HRExecutive

The Sept.-Oct. issue of the Harvard Business Review has an interesting package of articles on the 16-year tenure of recently retired G.E. CEO Jeff Immelt (including an essay by the man himself on what he learned during his time leading the company). One of what may be among his lasting impacts on the company is the campaign to use algorithms to transform the way GE develops and retains its 300,000 employees.

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my coworker is ruining her relationship with our boss

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: About two years ago, I was promoted to an executive role in my company – I am a department of one. Six months ago, Lisa, a former peer, was promoted to head a department that I work closely with. Lisa moved from sales to operations and is handling it well, but is learning operations on the fly since that’s not her background. The promotion required that Lisa spend much more time working with the company president, Jim, who can be quite challenging.

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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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Built to Last: Top 5 reasons your HR initiatives fail

HRWest

Contributed by Amii Barnard-Bahn, JD, CHIC – presenter for the NCHRA Small Company Conference. We have all heard the phrase “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” (Attributed to business guru Peter Drucker and made famous by Mark Fields, CEO and President of Ford Motor Company.) But what does that mean for us as human resources professionals? It […].

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Who Is Generation Z? 4 Big Ways They Will Be Different

HR Daily Advisor

Ready or not, the next generation of workers, Generation Z, is set to enter the workforce. Whether or not these workers will cause as much disruption as the Millennial generation remains to be seen. What is clear is that they will have different expectations, preferences, and perspectives of work that will challenge many existing organizations. Who Is Generation Z?

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employer wants my SAT scores, raffling off extra vacation days, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s four answers to four questions. Here we go…. 1. Employer asked me for my SAT scores when I applied for a director-level role. This week I applied for a director-level role and the application asked me for my SAT scores. It has been about 15 years since I took them and I know the scoring has changed since then, but I gave a good estimate of what I remembered my scores being.