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Should Employers Return to a Mask-Free Workplace?

HR Counselor's Corner

By Renee Mielnicki, Esquire. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (“CDC”) updated its guidance on May 13, 2021 to reflect a change in its recommendations for masks for fully vaccinated individuals. Specifically, the guidance provides that those who are fully vaccinated “can resume activities without wearing a mask or staying 6 feet apart, except where required by federal, state, local, tribal, or territorial laws, rules, and regulations, including local business and workplace guidance

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Work-Life Balance & Remote Work: 5 Tips for Balancing Work and Family

Quantum Workplace

Under normal circumstances, the transition to remote work can be challenging. Add caregiving to the mix and your employees are well on their way to burnout. How can parents and guardians balance conference calls and science projects, laundry and math homework, or kids and coworkers—all while living, studying, and working under one roof?

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HR’s Biggest Problem? The People Hiring HR.

Robin Schooling

The worst thing (probably) about your company’s HR Leader is the person who hired your HR Leader. In fact, I would love nothing more than to banish, forevermore, the CEOs, Business Owners, COOs and CFOs who recruit, interview and select their company’s HR leader. OK …not all of them need to go; there are quite a few who understand the value of great HR.

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HR Tech Number of the Day: HR automation

HRExecutive

$54,709: Amount of money employers could save annually if they automated their time management processes. While automation is quickly becoming a cornerstone of HR, there are still many processes being done manually—and that’s costing employers both time and money. A new report from Deloitte and Paylocity found that employers could reap significant cost savings across an array of HR functions by turning to automation.

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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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Employee wellness benefits are shifting focus to reflect modern times

Business Management Daily

When current and future employees examine a company’s benefits package, they typically expect to see employer-sponsored health insurance among the offerings. Comprehensive, affordable options encourage employee retention. Likewise, attractive plans become a selling point when interviewing job candidates. With rising medical costs, employee concern over health insurance coverage will not wane any time soon.

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7 Great Ways to Create a Healthy Work Environment

Achievers

at makes a company a great place to work? Is it the perks? The location? Maybe the compensation? Ultimately, the key to creating and sustaining a high-performing organization is establishing a healthy work environment. Businesses that prioritize long-term success must show that they care about their employees, whether their team members are on-site, remote, or part time.

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Infographic: 3 Steps After Every Employee Survey

DecisionWise

Download the PDF of this Infographic. Employee surveys come in many shapes and sizes. While the feedback received in each may differ, there are some universal steps that apply across almost all employee surveys. 1. Understand. When employees provide feedback, they are seeking to be HEARD and UNDERSTOOD. Spend time reviewing and analyzing feedback data.

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IRS Limited Non-Assessment Periods Help Avoid ACA Penalties

ACA Times

4 minute read. The Employer Shared Responsibility Provisions (ESRP) under the Affordable Care Act may seem straightforward, but, in reality, complying with them can be challenging and time-consuming. An area that many Applicable Large Employers (ALEs) struggle with is knowing when they are required to extend an offer of coverage to their full-time employees.

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Improve your Organization’s Career Experience

Engage2Excel

Research and recommendations provided in our The Career Experience Continuum eBook explains that the career experience is more than career development. From the employee's perspective, it is an important indicator of their fulfillment throughout their journey with your organization. When employers don't provide the experiences employees want most, employees disengage, under-produce and seek employment elsewhere.

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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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5 Statistics to Help Build Your Case for an Employee Recognition Strategy

Achievers

Companies and employees are at a critical crossroad. For the last year, employees have operated in crisis mode as a result of the pandemic. Despite many employees demonstrating admirable flexibility and creativity amidst rapidly changing requirements, employee engagement has suffered, and employee commitment is not expected to last. In fact, employers may soon see a turnover “tsunami” —a mass exodus of employees quitting their jobs after the pandemic ends.

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What Leaders Need to Know About Trauma in the Workplace

The People Equation

Editor’s note: To what degree has the “collective” trauma of COVID-19 seeped into workplaces around the world? And what do leaders need to know about trauma in the workplace? The People Equation reached out to psychiatrist and trauma expert Dr. Mark Goulston to learn more. In this guest post, he shares the leadership lessons about healing from the trauma of COVID-19.

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Strategies to Engage Remote Teams in 2021

Hppy

Did you know that happy, engaged employees are approximately 12% more productive than dissatisfied workers? It’s true, and they’re also far more likely to stay with your company and contribute to the results that matter. Yet many companies still wonder how to increase employee engagement. One of the best ways to do this is by recognizing and rewarding employees (including the use of a true recognition and rewards platform ).

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an expert on how to get what you need from your health insurance

Ask a Manager

This post, an expert on how to get what you need from your health insurance , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. An Ask a Manager reader who works in health insurance as a customer service trainer wrote to me and offered to give advice about navigating health insurance, saying, “Basically, I get paid to learn and teach how to beat the system as much as possible.

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Hiring for Culture Fit: Align Your Values, Roles and Candidates

Speaker: Dr. Craig Ellis, Head of I-O Psychology, HighMatch

Is the term “culture” just a buzzword tossed around at your organization, or have you delved into the core values and behaviors that truly define a good fit for your company? In this webinar, Dr. Craig Ellis, an I-O Psychologist, will share a proven framework to identify the essential traits that contribute to a seamless fit within your unique culture, not just in your current successful employees but also in prospective candidates.

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If I Can’t Monitor My Remote Employees, They Must Not be Working

Blend Me Inc

If I Can’t Monitor My Remote Employees, They Must Not be Working. Jennifer Cameron. Mon, 05/17/2021 - 12:47. Most of us probably don’t want to relive March 2020 – and the fear and uncertainty that accompanied the lockdowns at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic – ever again. So why does trust matter? When you don’t trust your employees, it’s easy to jump to the wrong conclusion about their behavior, as Deshawn’s manager did.

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The Surprising Source of Most of Your Problems

Evil HR Lady

Do problems seem to plague you wherever you go ? Are you always passed up for promotions? Have you struggled to get new jobs? Is your personal life filled with drama ? Why on earth are you so plagued when other people seem to have much smoother lives? I’ll give you a hint: The common element in your problems is you. Sorry, but there’s a good chance if you made some changes, some of these external problems would just melt away.

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5 Tips To Streamline Your Hiring Process 

Hppy

Hiring a workforce can be stressful and overwhelming for many business owners. You want to find all the best possible candidates and learn as much about them as possible to hire the right person the first time around. . Recruitment can also have high risks and costs. When done right, it can get you the best people to make your business thrive. Otherwise, you are setting yourself up for high attrition rates, time-consuming interviews with unsuitable candidates, and longer turnaround times for the

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Why trust is the future of the employee experience

HR Zone

Employees Trust: the future of the employee experience.

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Trending Payroll Statistics

Staying up-to-date on the latest decisions and payroll statistics ensures businesses can remain compliant and efficient. B2B Reviews research compiled the latest data to help businesses stay on top of payroll in 2024 and prepare for the future.

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Brooks: Will hybrid work be heaven—or a horror show?

HRExecutive

As we head toward the one-and-a-half-year mark of working in a pandemic, many organizations are now quickly adapting to prepare for a Q3 return to the office. In the darkest and most challenging days of the pandemic, so many of us pined for a return to normalcy like the clean simplicity of commuting to and working from the office with our colleagues.

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Things HR Managers Can Learn From Brands That’ve Worked Remotely Since Inception

6Q

The conventional walls of an organisation no longer describe what an organisation is. Technology has broken those walls into shambles and built a new remote organisation structure. How do HR managers adapt to this? Getting lessons from successful brands that have worked remotely is one way. The world saw two years’ worth of digital transformation in just two months during the second quarter of 2020.

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HR and Cybersecurity: Why do we need to involve HR for Cybersecurity

Hppy

Different security researchers have revealed that employees are often the sole reason for the cyberattacks on a company. By developing a cybersecurity strategy, culture and involving HR, this problem can be resolved. In today’s world, with the addition of technology into everything, everyday life, work, home, and organization environments are induced with electronic keys that can open the door to high-level and sensitive data and other confidential information. .

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New Employee Onboarding Guide

SHRM Resources

How employers handle the first few days and months of a new employee's experience through the onboarding process is crucial to ensuring high retention.

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The Ultimate LMS Buyer’s Guide: Everything You Need to Know When Purchasing an LMS

Whether you’re shopping for your very first learning management system (LMS) or looking to upgrade, the process can be overwhelming. With so many vendor options, each with its own multitude of features and pricing structures, even the most seasoned educators, trainers, and business leaders can feel lost in a sea of choices! Finding the LMS that’s best suited for your organization requires a planned, strategic approach.

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Employee experience: how to give employees a ‘safe space’ to speak out

HR Zone

Culture Creating a ‘safe space’ to speak out.

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What makes me truly happy?

The Tim Sackett Project

I read an article the other day about happiness. All the science, all the research, Shawn Achor acting like we can actually make our employees happy, etc. It’s all a bunch of bullsh*t really, right? I mean, Shawn doesn’t think so, because he has studies and stuff, and he’s a nice enough fellow (Editor’s note: Who says “fellow”?

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Top Tips for Boosting the Morale of Remote Employees in 2021

Hppy

The pandemic forced many employers to make their teams work remotely. It is very likely that the majority thought that it would be a temporary change, but it seems like this model of working is here to stay. It should come as no surprise, though. Working remotely has a number of benefits , such as lowering the costs associated with renting an office space.

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The Looming Talent Pandemic

SHRM

I s your Organization Prepared? With vaccine penetration approaching herd immunity levels, businesses rebounding and re-opening, and more optimism around a “return to normal” there is yet another pandemic looming that threatens business: A talent pandemic. The covid aftermath is impacting the enterprise’s most precious asset – its core talent. And top talent has an evolving, if not yet fully clear, framework of how they are defining their expectations for the new workplace.

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Future-proof your I-9 compliance for 2024

Speaker: Join I-9 Experts:

Got I-9 compliance on your mind? Spending endless amounts of time ensuring you stay compliant? Get your questions answered with an expert panel from WorkBright. During this one-hour webinar, Workbright will dive deep into I-9 best practices, navigate the nuances of the new 2023 'alternative procedure,' and learn actionable ways to ensure your audit trail is squeaky clean.

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my employee injured his coworker in an office prank

Ask a Manager

This post, my employee injured his coworker in an office prank , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: I manage two employees, Roger and Niles, who are friends and in their 20s. This team is not an entry-level team; both employees have been promoted to be on this team, and they have both worked for the company for several years.

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Walmart Sued for Failing to Accommodate Deaf Applicant

SHRM Resources

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has sued Walmart, alleging the retailer violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and discriminated against a job applicant because he is deaf.

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Remote, hybrid or back to the office? How to decide on the right return-to-work plan for your company

Workable

Time to celebrate, right? Well, it depends. Some companies such as Microsoft , IBM , Slack , Ford, Target, and Citigroup have already planned out and gone full steam ahead on their own version of a hybrid work model that includes both remote and in-office work, but that return-to-work plan is not going to work for every company. Your return-to-work plan: What’s best?