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The Biggest HR Challenges During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Hppy

The global pandemic has disrupted every industry, creating chaos in these unprecedented times. As such, companies have had to rethink their entire business model and adapt to the changes to keep the lights on. HR professionals, in particular, have faced challenges in advocating for employees, shifting hiring policies, and managing internal communications.

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Hybrid Workforces Must Be Equitable for Everyone

HR Bartender

Estimated reading time: 4 minutes. As we’re hearing more about vaccines, it’s only natural to talk about people gathering together. And that of course, leads to a conversation about employees coming back to the office. It reminded me of an article I saw on Business Insider a couple of months ago about how “Zillow is adopting a hybrid model of work, but its CEO says it’s trying to prevent one major downside: a ‘two-class system’ where those who come into the office are viewed as better employees.

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6 Ways to Safely Welcome Employees Back Into the Office 

Hppy

While remote work is here to stay, in some capacity, indefinitely, many employees and certainly many employers are eager to return to the office life. Many of the studies and reports that have come out of the pandemic regarding productivity and employee happiness suggest that people have no problem working remotely for the rest of their careers, but there are still certain roles, as well as something to be said for in-person collaboration and interaction, that will draw scores of people back to

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Template: Paid Parental Leave Change Best Practices | BerniePortal

BerniePortal

As the benefits season rolls around, it’s always best practice to evaluate your organization’s current offerings to see what works, what doesn’t, and what you can do to provide better value to your team members. Use the following template and best practices to announce a change to your paid parental leave policy.

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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 Manage Underperformance When Working Remotely

6Q

Managing underperformance can be a challenging task at the best of times. The reasons for underperformance are not always easy to gauge, and can come down to a range of personal issues, as well as dynamics and factors within the workplace. With many employees still working at home due to the coronavirus pandemic, these issues are naturally amplified.

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Organizing Strategies for the Pursuit of Excellence

Thrive Global

Below are my responses to a sublime interview experience that changed direction: Why do so many successful and powerful people trust you to help them? I am diminutive in stature. I have unique alchemy of warmth, sincerity, altruism, boldness, genuineness, light-filled Illuminati, integrity, and evoke wisdom. These lend themselves to people trusting me intimately in the ephemeral moment.

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Doing Nothing Can Actually Make You More Productive. What?!

HR C-Suite

Yes, that is right: One secret to boost your productivity is finding time to do nothing. We’ve all spent over a year now trying to squeeze out effort in every second of our workday. Thus, it seems simply counter-intuitive that peering out the window, daydreaming, or closing your eyes, would actually boost one’s productivity. But according to recent […].

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The Secret Of High WillPower

Thrive Global

Do you remember what your favorite subject in school was? Many of you will answer either any language or math or science and very few of you will answer HISTORY. History is an underrated subject. Most of the students don’t like to study it partly because of their approach towards it and partly because of the way it is presented to them. But actually, studying history helps to develop our character.

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Mental Health in the Workplace: Why Mental Wellbeing Must Be a Priority for Your Organization

Viverae

Your employees are struggling, and it’s hurting your business in more ways than one Mental wellbeing has long been an issue for organizations, but the ripple effects of COVID-19 have brought many to a tipping point. We‘ve now reached a full-blown mental health crisis, propelling us towards epidemic levels of lost productivity, declining wellbeing and absenteeism.

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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 To Anxiety

Thrive Global

I always felt shy and like I lacked confidence throughout school. However this turned into more when I left school and started working. I began feeling a lot worse. Sometimes feeling like I couldn’t leave the house and like my body was out of my control. At the time I didn’t know what it was. After an awful experience while in a busy supermarket where I felt completely out of control (feeling sick, shaking, sweating, crying) I finally made the decision to phone the doctors.

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Finding the Best Online Language Tutors

Take It Personel-ly

Speaking multiple languages is always seen as a cool skill that most of us dream to achieve one day. Well, who doesn’t, right? With all the benefits of being bilingual or multilingual — the career opportunities, foreign people you get to speak to, the movies you get to watch without subtitles, etc. — learning a […].

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How to encourage your RTW employees to be well beings.

Work Points Play

Employees who have returned to offices are reporting that they are struggling to cope. They are feeling fatigued from activities that used to be an everyday thing, and are mentally burned out by mid-morning. While workplace fatigue is not new, the levels of reported overwhelm and exhaustion we are seeing after 2020 certainly are. "For many people workplace fatigue is a very normal physiological response to ditching the work-from-the-couch-in-your-pyjamas routine they were used to in lockdown," s

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5 Supplements to Take to Help Boost Your Energy

Take It Personel-ly

We all have our energy levels down at one point or another, and we find ourselves in need of boosting the energy so as to keep going. The normal healthy balanced diet, exercises and getting enough sleep, sometimes does not cut it, especially with our busy schedules. Energy-boosting supplements become a great option for an […].

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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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9 Essential eCommerce Marketing Strategies Your Business Should Be Using

New to HR

Creating a marketing strategy can at times be difficult, especially if you’re running an eCommerce business. In this heavily competitive market, brands need to know. The post 9 Essential eCommerce Marketing Strategies Your Business Should Be Using appeared first on New To HR.

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Activities That Benefit Your Physical & Mental Health

Take It Personel-ly

Activities that benefit both physical and mental health are vital. While it’s important to exercise, you shouldn’t necessarily restrict your consideration to the physical impacts. Mental health, specifically psychological equilibrium and resilience, are improved by moving your body, even if you don’t consider it strictly as working out. Gardening If you can safely join a […].

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Why Employment Screening for Small Businesses Is Getting More And More Challenging?

Peopletrail

For a business to succeed, it needs to have faithful and reliable employees to ensure the company’s safety, suitability, and profitability. To find out what kind of person a prospective employee is, most potential employers will run a background check on the applicants to see whether they are suitable. Background checks usually show a candidate’s debt, criminal, employment, and court histories so that an employer can make an informed decision about the person being hired by the compa

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Talent Acquisition: Reduce time-to-hire and time-to-productivity | Ascender on demand Webinar

Ascender

Antiquated recruitment and onboarding processes are costing your company time and money! As the world returns to work, the requirements to effectively source and onboard employees have also changed. To resume business and accelerate growth, organisations need to decrease employee time-to-hire and time-to-productivity. This webinar explains how implementing effective talent acquisition processes can lead to greater employee alignment, productivity, and retention.

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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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7 Ways To Make The Feedback Process More Effective

GroSum

Feedback is a blessing in disguise. It is an art that can be perfected with more and more practice. However, in this trying time of the Covid-19 scenario, the percentage of people working remotely is increasing everyday. With the managers and employees being away from each other the chances of miscommunication see an upsurge as […]. The post 7 Ways To Make The Feedback Process More Effective appeared first on GroSum Blog.

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The Shocking Truth About Mental Health Care in England….

Thrive Global

Let me start by saying these are my viewpoints from not only personal experience, but from watching family, friends and now clients that I am working with. A bit of background, I have suffered with poor mental health for many years, first attempt at suicide at 15 years old through depression through being bullied. I have slipped in and out of depression and anxiety states since then, every time being stuck on pills that quite frankly did nothing for me other than make me a talking zombie.

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5 Reasons Why You Need To Yoga While Working From Home

Take It Personel-ly

With so much going on in our lives today, keeping active is super important. Yoga offers a unique and enjoyable way to do just that. So many stressors have added increased tension and unhealthy habits into our lifestyles that it has become increasingly vital to find ways to take care of our health. There is […].

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How To Use A Diary To Organize and Improve Your Life?

Thrive Global

Bullet journaling is a fantastic way to disconnect from the constant digital inputs that have come to influence our lives today. There are screens everywhere we look — on the bus, on the train, at our desks, and in-store windows. Everywhere we look, there’s a screen full of data. It’s easy to become overwhelmed. A well-organized bullet journal will help.

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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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Around The World, Governments Are Readying To Regulate Big Tech

Forbes Leadership Strategy

Attitudes globally toward big tech seem to be shifting. The days of unlimited expansion, unrestricted acquisitions and copying rivals’ models, along with privacy violations, could be about to end. Whether this happens in Europe, the United States or China, is surely very good news for everyone.

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Jessica Lachs: “Hire people willing to roll up their sleeves and do any job”

Thrive Global

Hire people willing to roll up their sleeves and do any job. Years ago at our Boston office, we all had to wear many hats. On the weekends, we would take out the trash and clean the office?—?as a team?—?because we had to. It was a group effort and I believe much of our early success came about because everyone had the characteristic “one team, one fight” DoorDash attitude.

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Ask an Advisor Chat: Managing the COVID-19 Vaccine in the Workplace

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Now What? Start with The Preliminaries

Thrive Global

What a year! Unimaginable, unpredictable, immensely unsettling and challenging. Disease, radical separation, and death. Many parts of the world remain in the throes of the pandemic. In the United States, we appear to be turning a corner. Change is on the horizon but it’s not clear; change to what, when, and how? What now? During this time, of change and renewal, I’ve been reflecting on a set 59 practices that come from ancient Buddhist traditions that offer powerful and practical reminders for c

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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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Winning The Battle For Most Innovative: The Best Approach To Competitive Success

Forbes Leadership Strategy

Where do you stand against competitors on your innovation record/reputation? There are several assets to use on this score, and we discuss the best mix depending upon where you stand as a company.

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To do or not to do? To sleep or not to sleep?

Thrive Global

In Shakespeare’s play, Hamlet, Hamlet the character begins a soliloquy, asking himself, “To be, or not to be, that is the question.” He is contemplating life vs. death, pondering mortality and the meaning of life. He speaks of dreams, “For in that sleep of death what dreams may come…” Yet, while Shakespeare, through Hamlet, dove into the very heart of human existence and the deepest quandaries of life, they predated the scientific confirmation that without sleep we do die.

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A New Way To Take Care Of Your Customers: Autonomous Customer Service

Forbes Leadership Strategy

Regarding that customer support, Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, said, “The best customer service is if the customer doesn’t need to call you, doesn’t need to talk to you. It just works.”.