Thu.Dec 03, 2020

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How Is Onboarding Related To Employee Retention?

ExactHire

Employers are facing more challenges than ever as they march into 2021. The pandemic, social unrest, and the general chaos of the past year have brought otherwise healthy companies to the brink, while decimating others that were unstable in the best of times. Our turbulent and uncertain era has illustrated one truth: the corporations that succeed will be the ones that don’t waste their financial resources.

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Sumser: Here’s how to get a true sense of quality of hire

HRExecutive

I recently scanned a conversation on Linkedin about measuring quality of hire. I am intrigued and appalled by what seems to be our desire to measure the quality of people. I suppose it’s not that different from how we treat cattle. The underlying question is part of an eternal squabble between recruiters and hiring managers: Whose fault is it when a candidate doesn’t work out?

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How to create a business plan that helps optimize your HR strategy

Insperity

A written plan is the foundation for a successful business launch, major expansion or change in direction. But writing an effective business plan can be a challenge, starting with the structure your plan should take. What, you might ask, does creating a business plan have to do with human resources (HR)? As you better define and understand your business and customers, you can: Optimize how you organize and manage your people to best achieve those business goals Identify areas where you might nee

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Reputable Staffing Company Reduces Turnover

Payactiv

Industry: Staffing Services Key Takeaways 30% Employee participation in the program $12 million Earned wages accessed in a little over a year Reduced employee turnover without affecting cash flow Payactiv’s Earned Wage Access didn’t affect their cash flow The Challenge Integrity Staffing has been providing temporary workers and recruiting services to large online retailers across the United States for more than 20 years.

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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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2021 IRS Deadlines to Avoid ACA Penalties

ACA Times

2 minute read: Every year Applicable Large Employers (ALEs) must file and furnish their ACA information to the IRS and their employees, respectively. Failing to do so can result in significant IRS penalty assessments. Employers, as 2020 begins to wind down, be sure you meet the following IRS deadlines for complying with the ACA’s Employer Mandate. Mark your calendars for the following dates: February 28, 2021: Paper file your 2020 Forms 1094-C and 1095-C with the IRS no later than this date.

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Four Adoption Best Practices for Performance Programs

Reflektive

Fact: 82% of HR leaders struggle to drive adoption of their technology. Even if there are required HR activities, such as completing performance reviews , HR technology adoption still often lags that of department-specific software. Adoption is a leading indicator of a company’s ability to drive successful organizational change and improve employee behaviors.

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Breastfeeding and Smoking on Zoom. What Would HR Say?

Evil HR Lady

Is it okay to breastfeed on camera on a video conference? The Society for Human Resources asked this question. SHRM Connect: Breastfeeding on Zoom Calls… What Would You Do? [link] #SHRMConnect pic.twitter.com/tXMSNFPcf1 — SHRM (@SHRM) December 2, 2020. I’m glad whoever wrote that is not this woman’s HR person either. Because here is what I would do.

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10 Tips for Finding a Mentor—and Making the Relationship Count

The Muse

You’ve probably heard a million times that you should have a mentor. But how do you find one? And then what do you do?

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Is your tech failing your frontline workers?

HRExecutive

As COVID-19 continues to impact countries around the globe, the pressure on frontline enterprise workers has never been more acute. A new survey found that tech reliability problems are raising stress levels and lowering productivity for those workers and, by extension, their employers. According to the survey by B2M Solutions, despite 87% of IT leaders admitting to having some tools in place to proactively monitor and manage their critical IT infrastructure, two-thirds (66%) of frontline worker

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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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Managing a Remote Workforce During the Holidays and COVID-19 Pandemic

WorkHuman

Workhuman’s Senior Director of HR Sarah Hamilton writes about how to best manage a remote workforce during the 2020 holiday season, and the importance of celebrating humanity in the workplace during COVID-19. Read Sarah’s article on BenefitsPro. .

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Why HR’s place is in the boardroom

HR Zone

People HR’s place is in the boardroom.

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Why Clarity Matters in Leadership

SHRM

Your responsibility is to become a leader who is a visionary. Turning smart ideas into action requires a sound strategy and transparent, data-rich decision-making coupled with resolute authenticity. It comes down to your clarity. You must command it. Bringing joy to your work helps as well. Leadership Questions to Ask Yourself Am I confident with my current state at work?

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Don’t Make These 16 Common Mistakes Of New Business Owners

Forbes Coaches Council

While all new business owners face challenges on their entrepreneurial journey, you shouldn't let your own missteps create unnecessary obstacles. Here, Forbes Coaches Council members discuss 16 mistakes that new business owners commonly make and offer invaluable tips to help you avoid the same.

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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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Post-Covid Work Trends and the Future of Work

HR Digest

Digital transformation is the key to post-covid work trends as organizations try various strategies that provide better outcomes. The Covid-19 pandemic has reset the way the world works. Businesses and companies now need to rethink how to manage post-covid work trends like their remote workforce, hiring policies, skills, and experience needs. “It’s critical for business leaders to understand that large-scale shifts are changing how people work and how business gets done,” says Brian Kropp, vice

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7 Reliable Talent Strategies for Business Success in 2021

Quantum Workplace

Like the events of 2020, the future of work can be unpredictable. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Your organization has a lot of information inside it that can help you propel your workforce and your business forward in 2021. Employee engagement will continue to be an important part of an effective and integrated talent strategy. But engagement isn’t the only component of achieving business success.

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5 Essential Safety Tips When Undertaking Road Construction

Take It Personel-ly

Road construction is inherently unsafe. In most cases, you’re working alongside traffic which can be speeding past, even if you’ve put up signs to slow them down. Alongside this, it’s common for sections of road to be repaired or constructed at night. This decreases the chances of a worker being seen by a motorist and […].

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Episode 256: The Role of the CHRO in the First 90 Days

Workology

Today’s podcast is part of a series on the Workology Podcast focused on the role and responsibilities of the Chief Human Resources Officer, or CHRO. The CHRO is an executive or C-level role that. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution. Today’s podcast is part of a series on the Workology Podcast focused on the role and responsibilities of the Chief Human Resources Officer, or CHRO.

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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 Leaders are Optimizing Digital Transformation During Covid-19

Quickbase

As the effects of Covid-19 continue, we can analyze its effect as a flashpoint for businesses and how they reacted to massive upheaval. Harvard Business Review Analytic Services’ (HBRAS) recent report, “ Reevaluating Digital Transformation During Covid-19 , ” delves into exactly what this means for organizations on their paths to digital transformation.

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The Importance of Enabling Streamlined Compliance Monitoring and Testing

360 factors

Compliance monitoring and testing enables organizations to detect potential issues and vulnerabilities in the risk and compliance management framework of the organization. The first step is to test all the controls that have been put in place. The ideal approach is to continuously test the controls as well to ensure that they are performing adequately.

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Two ways to foster little acts of citizenship during a global pandemic

HR Zone

Employees Fostering little acts of ‘citizenship’.

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Webinar: Shaping the Employee & Customer Experience to Maximize Competitive Advantage

Workstride

In the last 8 months reduced capacity, social distancing, work from home, and other effects of the pandemic have accelerated and solidified existing trends in consumer behavior- including a trend towards greater virtual interactions. As we all grow accustomed to the “new normal”, there’s an emergent advantage at the intersection of employee and customer experience that gives a clear opportunity for organizations to improve their competitive advantage in this accelerated digital

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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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U.S. Adds 245,000 Jobs; Unemployment Rate Drops

SHRM Resources

U.S. payrolls rose by an anemic 245,000 in November, according to reporting from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, providing more evidence that the pace of hiring has slowed as states have begun to reimpose restrictions on businesses amid a resurgence in COVID-19 cases. Job growth has slackened every month since June, when businesses shuttered by the pandemic first began to reopen, but last month's tally is the lowest figure yet.

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15 remote employee recognition ideas to build a culture of appreciation

TinyPulse

Adapting Employee Recognition During COVID-19. Has the way you recognize your employees changed in light of COVID-19?

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Survey Says Diversity is a Priority for Most Organizations

Criteria Corp

While COVID-19 has dramatically shaped the course of 2020, it wasn’t the only focus this year. For organizations of all kinds, 2020 brought a renewed focus on diversity in the workplace. In our latest 2020 survey, we sought to understand how important DEI issues are to employers today, and we published the results in our 2020 Hiring Benchmark Report.

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A Good Foundation For Leadership

Forbes Coaches Council

Isn’t it remarkable how often you hear journalists and authors lavish praise on organizations when they perform exceptionally? No matter how many times an executive or team actually follows a simple idea of authenticity in leadership, everyone’s shocked that it actually works.

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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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update: my emotionally fragile employee is sobbing at work multiple times a week

Ask a Manager

It’s “where are you now?” month at Ask a Manager, and all December I’m running updates from people who had their letters here answered in the past. Remember the letter-writer whose emotionally fragile employee was sobbing at work multiple times a week ? Here’s the update. Thank you, Alison, and the AAM community for your responses. I’ll admit that I was taken back by the intensity of the responses.

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Where Do We Go From Here

NoExcusesHR

I let a milestone slip by quietly a month or so ago. It was the tenth anniversary of this blog ( 900 posts strong.) I know, not a big deal in the grand scheme of things. The world has gone absolutely crazy.pandemics have become politicized.and the United States is sadly divided to extremes. Back to that milestone. I decided to step back from writing for a while.

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interviewer pressed me about politics, I was undercover-bossed, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. Interviewer pressed me about the presidential election. I had my first job interview since the pandemic started. It took place the day after Election Day. After the usual small talk of hi and thank you’s, the hiring manager proceeded to talk about the presidential election results and asked what I thought about all the allegations being thrown about, before voicing their support for one of the candidates.