Wed.Apr 01, 2020

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Survey Results: How HR is Addressing COVID-19 in the Workplace

Namely

In just a few short weeks, the COVID-19 pandemic has completely uprooted the way we work. Employees across the country are getting acclimated to working from home, and employers are racing to stay on top of new legislative requirements. Entire industries have been put on pause, unemployment is soaring, and businesses are trying to weather the storm.

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Staying Connected Through Teams

SHRM

Almost overnight, our work lives have been dramatically altered, with businesses announcing mandatory telecommuting during COVID-19. It has been amazing to see the corporate leadership surrounding this and people coming together to fight the pandemic, so the work-life disruption is a small price to pay. While those of us able to work from home are certainly blessed to have that option, it has led to new realities.

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5 ways to keep up the communication during COVID-19

Papirfly

In a short window of time, the Coronavirus outbreak has dramatically changed the way that companies communicate, both to their teams internally and to their customers across the globe.

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Insights in ACA Compliance during the Pandemic

ACA Times

3 minute read: As employers across the country continue to feel the impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic and work to comply with various state or local stay at home orders to combat the spread of the disease, employers have also been bombarded with information regarding the various workforce management tools at their disposal to keep their businesses alive during this crises.

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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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What Recruiters Really Look for When Reviewing Resumes

Celarity

By Matt Krumrie, an experienced resume writer and career advice professional. We get it. Writing a resume is tricky. There is no one-size-fits all resume writing strategy that fits every job, applicant tracking system, and every recruiter or hiring manager. But there are tried and true methods that can help job seekers write a resume that best represents how they can make an impact in their next job.

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Cover Letter Tips for Any Job

Professional Alternatives

Your cover letter is often the first impression a prospective employer has of you. But what are they really looking for? And what cover letter tips can you use to get you the interview if you don’t know? Don’t worry—our recruiting experts are here to help! — Cover Letter Tips: Why You Need One. Having an example to draw from is an excellent place to start, but before we dive in, it’s good to know why we write cover letters in the first place.

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Our Commitment to Our Customers and Members on the Frontlines

Linkedin Talent Blog

Around the globe, hospitals and essential services are facing critical talent shortages as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, needing to hire hundreds of thousands of people over the coming weeks and months. At the same time, millions of people – including medical professionals and front line responders – come to LinkedIn every week to search and apply for jobs.

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Best Practices for Hiring Remotely Amid COVID-19 and Beyond

Zenefits

The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically shifted how businesses operate. Around the country, business leaders, colleagues, and candidates are going into self-isolation in accordance with CDC guidance. Given the critical need for social distancing, handshakes and face-to-face interviews are no longer appropriate. Yet, in many sectors like the healthcare industry, hiring is ramping up faster than ever.

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15Five Launches Updated Manager Soft Skills Training With Worst-Self Academy

15Five

“Would I rather be feared or loved? Easy. Both. I want people to be afraid of how much they love me.” ~ Michael Scott, Dunder Mifflin. Those of us in the tech and innovation space understand that there’s a sweet spot for providing businesses with solutions to their most pressing problems. We call this leading and pacing. Shoot past the market by offering something that customers are not ready for and no one will use it.

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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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25 Key Remote Work Statistics for 2020

Achievers

As you wade through the midst of what Time calls “the world’s largest work-from-home experiment,” you may be wondering what your company’s workplace will look like in the future. How will this affect your employee engagement? And what will productivity look like, if fewer people are coming into the office every day? To answer these questions, all we have to do is look at a batch of recent remote work statistics.

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The CEO’s Ultimate Guide To Remote Work, Part 4: Shifting Your Mindset

15Five

The world has entered an unprecedented moment in history, and organizations around the globe have had to adjust quickly to a new way of working. For some leaders, remote work was something they were forced to do, not something they embraced. But when leaders are prepared with a remote-first mindset and infrastructure, they can shift their companies to remote work without sacrificing productivity or culture. 15Five is proof of that.

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Jennifer O’Shasky Makes Her Move Into the Travel Industry: A Candidate Success Story?

Intoo USA

Getting laid off can be stressful for anyone. But getting laid off after decades at a company—when you’re the family’s primary breadwinner—is a truly disorienting ordeal. Jennifer O’Shasky experienced this firsthand in 2018, when she was let go from her business solutions director position at a marketing technology company, an employer she’d served for 22 years. .

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The CEO’s Ultimate Guide To Remote Work, Part 1: Boosting Manager Effectiveness

15Five

While many of the management skills you normally lean on in a co-located environment are relevant when you go remote, it’s critical to have the right set and cadence of practices to do it well. In my opinion, 75% of a manager’s effectiveness, especially when it comes to managing remote teams, comes down to ensuring they’re engaging the right cadence of activities and having the right conversations at the appropriate time.

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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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Jennifer O’Shasky Makes Her Move Into the Travel Industry: A Candidate Success Story?

Intoo USA

Getting laid off can be stressful for anyone. But getting laid off after decades at a company—when you’re the family’s primary breadwinner—is a truly disorienting ordeal. Jennifer O’Shasky experienced this firsthand in 2018, when she was let go from her business solutions director position at a marketing technology company, an employer she’d served for 22 years. .

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Ideas To Boost Employee Motivation And Morale

Hppy

Low morale in the workplace significantly impacts the productivity of employees, and not in a good way. That is why you need to nip this problem in the bud. Otherwise, it can decrease the success of your venture. It does not matter what business you are doing. Either way, the positivity or negativity of the workforce plays a vital role in the results.

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Bersin webinar: Will coronavirus spark the new remote workforce?

HRExecutive

Weeks in, the coronavirus has shifted how CHROs are thinking and leading within their organizations. But through all the challenges, innovations abound as leadership embraces a new now of work. That was one takeaway of a 90-minute webinar Tuesday sponsored by Human Resource Executive and led by global industry analyst and HRE partner Josh Bersin. More than 2,000 people attended.

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here are your animal coworkers, part 2

Ask a Manager

With so many people working from home with animal coworkers, it’s obviously crucial that we see photos of your new colleagues. When I put out a call for pictures last week, I received more than 450 of them … so I posted half earlier this week and here’s part two. Click photos to enlarge. And if you’re reading this from the home page, you have to click through to see the photos.

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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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Top 6 FREE Video Interview Software

TalentLyft

Check out the 6 best video interviewing software platforms you can use completely for FREE online! We found the best solutions you can use completely for free and listed their pros and cons. All you have to do is choose your perfect fit! Read More.

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Everything’s Canceled | A Kid’s Guide to Passing the Time

Degreed

Across the country, millions of families just like yours are adjusting to the new normal. Working moms and dads are now school teachers, coaches, art instructors, and may even find themselves functioning as a referee to break up the occasional fight (so we’ve heard…). Though work-life balance has always been a priority for Degreed, many of us are struggling to strike a new balance amidst all this change.

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A Few Considerations for Remote “Team Engagement”

Robin Schooling

Even as we grapple, globally, with the containment and fight of the pandemic, there are many lovely things happening as a result of the ‘Rona. One thing I’ve noticed is how my neighbors on Nextdoor are less passive-aggressive and actually being, well, neighborly! No doubt you’ve seen (or maybe even participated in) activities like: Group sing alongs in places ranging from balconies in Italy to neighborhoods in Philadelphia Teddy Bear Hunts for the kids in the neighborhood Kids writing lett

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The External Essentials – How to Manage a Remote Workforce

Hppy

Are you looking to transition your business into one that relies solely on a remote workforce? Perhaps you are a business owner who is keen on exploring the myriad of possibilities and benefits that come with allowing staff to work from home. Regardless of what position you find yourself in, we can all agree that remote working is the way of the future.

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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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Paychex and PayActiv join forces to provide relief to businesses and employees

Payactiv

Paychex and PayActiv partner to provide much-needed financial relief amidst COVID-19. The post Paychex and PayActiv join forces to provide relief to businesses and employees appeared first on PayActiv.

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Women in leadership: why female mentorship matters

HR Zone

Culture Why female mentorship matters.

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How To Manage Global Teams Remotely

Engagedly

Working from home has become the new norm ever since the outbreak of Covid-19. While you’re anyway working remotely and managing teams remotely, why not use a few effective tips to do this right? Engagedly’s expert panel has […].

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How to be a persuasive communicator while working remotely

HR Morning

As social distancing becomes the new normal throughout the US and the world, professionals across industries are making drastic and immediate changes to their work and presentation styles. With the quick shift to working from home, business leaders, lawyers and sales and marketing teams are navigating new terrain—figuring out how to effectively communicate in a way that will achieve a desired outcome while working remotely.

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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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TP is the New Compensation

Compensation Cafe

Toilet paper has floated up into view as a new total reward element. . TP can now be added to the tool chest of vital popular rewards to be promised, dangled, offered, dispensed and hoarded as inducements for desired behaviors and rewards for successful productive activities. The global community of total reward professionals would be wise to take heed of this new movement that has swiftly moved into top place in terms of desirability among bottom-oriented people. .

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How to Support Working Parents During Times of Crisis

Limeade

With the outbreak of COVID-19 , millions of parents are staying home to work. And with school closures, millions of kids are staying home from school to complete their classwork online. While extra quality family time is great, this unexpected transition to sheltering-in-place poses a legitimate challenge to working parents and their families. How can employers and managers offer support?

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On-demand Webinar: The Impact of COVID-19 for Tobacco Users (+ How You Can Help)

EX Program

With social distancing, “shelter-in-home” restrictions, stock market turbulence, and a spike in employees working from home, business as usual is no longer usual. For employees looking to quit tobacco, high stress levels surrounding the impact of COVID-19 means it’s no longer “quitting as usual,” either. Whether your employees are planning to quit or are trying [.].

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