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When Does Work Engagement Lead to Harmful Outcomes?

IO At Work

Job engagement can have both positive and negative outcomes for organizations due to employees’ feelings of ownership over their jobs.

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How Job Seekers Discover Jobs is Actually Changing

HR Examiner

“Now we are entering a new age of discovery. Yes, candidates are still discovering job sites via search engines – but Google has ‘regularized’ the job posting, punishing those that don’t follow their schema, and rewarding those that do.” – Jeff Dickey-Chasins. Over three-quarters of job seekers typically start their job search on a search engine – usually Google – or a job search engine , such as Indeed or Adzuna.

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Office in an ‘unsexy’ area? Use these 5 talent attraction strategies

Workable

New York. Los Angeles. Toronto. Vancouver. London. These “sexy” locations are where great talent wants to work – your talent attraction strategies don’t need a lot of refining. But what happens when you’re located outside the perceived perfection of high-profile cities? How do you recruit top talent when you’re based out of Cleveland, or Buffalo? Somerset?

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Workday Podcast: Don’t Take Payroll for Granted

Workday

Everyone loves payday, but the word “payroll” can cause anxiety for payroll professionals as they cope with changing regulations, higher expectations, and shifting workforce dynamics. Workday’s Mariana Santiago, vice president, payroll product management, and Stacey Harris, VP research and analytics at Sierra-Cedar, talked with me about these issues and more.

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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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Automate Your Interviewing Practices for Successful Hiring

ClearCompany HRM

When the job market is competitive, as it is now, candidates start making judgments about prospective employers from the moment they visit your career site. It’s no longer just about the candidate trying to stand out in a sea of applicants and wanting to make a good impression on you and your hiring team. This is a job seeker’s market, and employers need to work on their first impressions, too.

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How to Decrease Employee Turnover

Zenefits

One of the most common complaints from business owners is a lack of employee loyalty. The turnover rate is too damn high. The data suggests they’re right. A study from the Work Institute estimated that 42 million — one in four, employees — left their jobs in 2018. Yet, the same study suggests that nearly 77% of turnover could be prevented by employers.

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Key Findings: The Gains from Work Automation

Visier

It’s well understood that automation will revolutionize work , and that the effects of automation will not be as simple as replacing the human workers in a job. Instead, work will be “perpetually upgraded,” as automation steadily changes how the underlying tasks in a job are accomplished. Work is “reinvented,” typically creating new jobs that comprise unprecedented combinations of human and automated work.

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How To Develop Your Employees’ Leadership Strengths

15Five

Leadership isn’t about authority. Contrary to what most believe, leadership is an opportunity to serve and empower others. By creating the space for people to discover their natural talents, those at the top can help to develop leadership strengths on every level. Unfortunately, companies often fall short of actually utilizing the leadership strengths of their people because they aren’t taking the time to discern their personal talents.

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Employee Engagement & The IKEA Effect

DecisionWise

The IKEA Effect is a cognitive bias that describes a fascinating human behavior. The effect was first identified and described in the Journal of Consumer Psychology by Michael Norton, Daniel Mochon, and Dan Ariely in their article, The IKEA effect: When labor leads to love. The basic premise is that when a person plays a partial role in building a product, they tend to assign a disproportionally higher value to the completed product.

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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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Company Culture: 5 Traits of Top-Rated Workplaces

Achievers

“Build a stronger company culture” may be on your strategic goals list for the coming year, but how do you translate that vague-sounding objective into action? What does “company culture” consist of, and how can you strengthen it? Improving your employer brand is not complex, but it does entail more than adding a ping-pong table and weekly boxes of donuts.

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Technology Gives a Boost to Screening and Onboarding

Allegis Global Solutions

Ninety-eight percent of HR decision-makers in a recent Allegis Group survey blame talent technology shortfalls for hindering innovation, raising recruitment costs, and lengthening hiring cycles. Yet, 77 percent are not up-to-date in the use of new talent technology.

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Supporting staff through the menopause: what employers need to know

cipHR

Talking about this life stage and educating all staff will benefit your organisation and those experiencing symptoms. We all know someone who has been through, will experience or is currently going through it – but what do you really know about the menopause, and how it affects the person experiencing it? Reproductive health is still a taboo subject in the workplace, yet the effects of the menopause can adversely affect performance.

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I ran into my new boss in the apartment of my one-night stand

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I recently engaged in some, um, consensual adult activity under the mutual understanding that it would be a temporary relationship at another person’s apartment. No work productivity was harmed in the making of this hookup. After a pleasant night, I walked out of a room to discover that, not only did the man I spent the night with have a roommate, that roommate had a pleasant night of their own WITH MY NEW BOSS.

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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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How to Overcome Technology’s Retention Problem

TalentCulture

With demand for quality tech professionals bigger than ever, it’s no surprise that the turnover rate is higher than in any other sector. The digital revolution has resulted in a scramble as businesses fight for the best talent to fill their ever-growing IT teams. It’s a great time for employees who want to get the best deal for themselves, but it’s a conundrum for employers.

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Workers are looking – and leaving – for career development

HR Morning

Prospective employees see career development as among the most important reasons to sign with —and stay with — with your organization. And, while you may think you are offering top-notch learning and development programs, they don’t think you are doing such a great job. Surveys show that workers and employers don’t agree on how well organizations are meeting employees’ development expectations.

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Conversational Recruiting: The Solution to Finding Millennial Talent?

SHRM Resources

In a candidate-driven labor market dominated by Millennials, the way companies treat applicants during the hiring process can greatly impact a job seeker's decision to accept or reject an offer. Companies can gain a competitive edge by staying in touch every step of the way, a strategy talent acquisition experts are calling "conversational recruiting.".

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everyone got laid off except me, men who pretend to be scared of women now, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. Everyone got laid off except for me. I work for a small business (3-5 employees) and I had known the company was having some financial trouble for some time. Everyone in my office got laid off except for me. I was offered a small raise to stay on, to compensate for the added responsibility. I agreed to stay on because it seemed like the right thing to do at the time — I really don’t want to see their business fail — but the l

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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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Need to Ramp Up Innovation? Hire a Diverse Workforce

TalentCulture

Do you need to ramp up company innovation? Need to boost ingenuity? According to research, the solution is simple: Hire a diverse workforce. In a study, researchers at North Carolina State’s Poole College of Management considered this question: Do companies that foster diversity perform better in developing innovative products and services? Based on data from the 3,000 largest publicly traded companies in the U.S., the answer was clear: “The short answer is that they do,” […].

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Health is Wealth even for Remote Workers: Tips to Keep Healthy While Working At Home

Take It Personel-ly

A remote worker shared that she gained as much as 40 pounds within just a year working from home. Does this sound familiar to you? Working from home may have its advantages like flexible hours and being your own boss, but one of the struggles is to keep oneself healthy. Here are some tips to help […].

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Was Your Company Trashed Online? What to Do with Workers’ Negative Reviews

SHRM Resources

Online reviews proliferate for everything from rentshares to restaurants, and corporate cultures are hardly immune: Sites like Glassdoor, Indeed and Vault give disgruntled employees a platform to expose the underbelly of their organizations' managers and practices--whether fairly or not. "Job candidates and employees are now empowered to provide instant feedback on employers, at any time, and they can rate a company's culture and management just as they rate a hotel, restaurant or.

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Innovative debt relief benefits: They can help attract, keep workers

HR Morning

Employee surveys show that financial worry is a leading cause of workplace stress in the U.S., contributing to $250 billion in stress-related lost productivity each year. Because employee debt’s the biggest contributor to those worries, more firms are looking at offering debt relief benefits alongside more traditional benefits. Debt assistance is also proving a powerful tool for attracting, hiring and retaining new workers, especially young people with heavy student loan burdens.

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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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#WorkTrends: AI for HR

TalentCulture

As we in HR know, AI is more than just a topic Common raps about in Microsoft commercials. Ready or not, it’s the future of work — and it’s coming quicker than we think. So how can your organization adopt and embrace AI solutions while also making sure that these technological imperatives don’t overwhelm your people or your bottom line? For the answers we turned to Jeanne Meister, founding partner of Future Workplace, an AI […].

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7 Ways to Inspire Disengaged Employees

Take It Personel-ly

Even the best, hard-working employees need to be motivated and encouraged from time to time. Any work can become monotonous sooner or later. Your job, as an entrepreneur or a team leader, is to recognize these situations and to help employees regain their motivation. Here are some of the best, and most constructive ways of […].

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Productivity tips to get things done

Business Management Daily

How to keep up with all the demands placed upon you in a time-compressed world and maintain quality. The post Productivity tips to get things done appeared first on Business Management Daily.

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Workplace Wellness Programs: Not a One Size Fits All Solution

Workology

Companies have become so very generous in their offerings of Wellness Programs within the company. It’s a great thing. There are incentives, allowable time to workout, equipment available. Heck, Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution.

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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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Putting Health Back in Health Care Plans: What Companies Must Do Now

TalentCulture

Here’s a bit of irony: When we think of health care we don’t often think of health or wellness; we think of insurance to help us cope with illness and injury. We also think of the process of dealing with those benefits — which on many occasions will include wait times, filling out forms, juggling in-network and out-of-network providers, waiting for claims to be processed, the limitations of coverage and administrative complexity.

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Capitalising on the Changing Social Media Marketing Opportunities

Take It Personel-ly

In today’s digital age, people rely on technology more than ever. Many people own multiple digital devices – including mobile phones, laptops and tablets – and spend several hours a day online. This new trend means that effective online marketing is now one of the most important ways to build a successful modern business. Social […].

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Overcoming Pitfalls: 5 Ways to Improve the Hiring Process

TalentLyft

Companies should always be critical of their existing processes so they can identify areas for improvement. In this blog post, you’ll learn five common pitfalls companies can encounter during the hiring process and strategies to overcome them. Read More.

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