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6 ways to boost staff morale during the pandemic

Hppy

Remote working has meant that staff rapport and team morale has significantly decreased. According to a recent survey carried out on 2,000 UK adult workers, a third of employees have stated that lockdown has brought them closer to burnout. With 51% of respondents saying they are working, an extra 59 hours outside of their normal working hours, and 27% claiming that the lack of social interaction with co-workers was making the time even more difficult.

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Introverts Can Thrive in HR

SHRM

Occasionally I get a question from a reader, such as below. Today’s question is about how introverts can thrive in the world of HR. What is a good HR job for introverts? I am somewhat shy and am looking for a way to follow my passion for HR without totally stressing myself out. Monique Hi Monique! Thanks for asking a question that so many of us have wondered about.

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How to Write Professional Emails That Get the Results You Want

The Muse

The basic elements of a professional email and how to make sure your messages are effective—plus three examples.

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How to Overcome Unconscious Bias in Healthcare

Precheck

How to Overcome Unconscious Bias in Healthcare Feb. 2, 2021. Bryan Barajas Marketing Director. Health disparities in the United States have contributed to increased death rates from COVID-19 among minority populations. Black Americans with the disease died at a rate 3.6 times higher than white Americans. The new administration, recognizing the severity of the issue, has appointed a task force to address and combat pandemic-related health disparities.

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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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General Motors New Slogan Opens a New Era in Automotive

Hireology

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, last month, ahead of the 2021 virtual CES , you saw General Motors unveil its new corporate logo to the world. Many automotive professionals took to Linkedin and other platforms to share their colorful opinions on GM’s latest emblem. I’ll spare you mine here. The redesign carries a greater message that goes beyond pure branding strategy.

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How to Use Performance Reviews to Motivate Employees

15Five

When was the last time you left a conversation feeling actually, completely motivated? Like your goals and priorities have been put into focus, your synapses are firing, and you’re excited to get to work? Got it? Okay. Now, when was the last time you felt that way after a performance review? It’s no secret that performance reviews have gotten a bad rap in recent years.

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What are the Tools of Recruitment?

ExactHire

There’s no doubt hiring managers face many recruitment method challenges as we work our way through 2021. You may receive more applicants for your job openings as a consequence of the pandemic. But in the aftermath of one of history’s most turbulent years, companies can’t afford to bring on the wrong people just because there are more available. High employee turnover is simply too costly.

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Taxpayers (Including Employers) Have the Right to the Challenge IRS

ACA Times

3 minute read: The IRS has a Taxpayer Bill of Rights, which includes a section stating every taxpayer’s “right to challenge the IRS’s position and be heard.” These fundamental rights apply to all taxpayers, including employers, even during the COVID-19 pandemic. . As noted in IRS Tax Tip 2020-171 (issued December 15, 2020), taxpayers have the right to: Raise objections.

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Build Team Trust to Drive Employee Mental Health and Performance

Pathways

Trust is vital to building and sustaining an effective team in any work environment. Trust in the workplace fosters a corporate culture where people feel safe with their colleagues. It also makes coworkers more likely to share, take appropriate risks, collaborate, and even divulge vulnerabilities to attain the organization's best possible outcomes.

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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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The Massive Market Impact of Microsoft Viva

Josh Bersin

Today Microsoft introduced an offering that is likely to transform the market for enterprise software: Microsoft Viva , a digital platform built on Microsoft 365 designed for the Employee Experience. Developed over several years and integrated with Microsoft Teams, Viva is an Employee Experience Platform carefully architected to leverage a company’s investment in existing.

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What is the Best Employee Onboarding Process

ExactHire

The benefits of effective employee onboarding are often overlooked. But, done correctly, onboarding will contribute to your organization’s financial health. When you make the effort to acclimate your new employees to their new roles, they will become productive more quickly and will stay longer. Finding and training the right people is expensive, and you risk wasting financial resources if you don’t do everything you can to make your new hires successful.

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Leveraging AI in Talent Management in 2021

Hppy

COVID-19 flipped the idea of a traditional workplace upside down in 2020 and has permanently changed the outlooks of many departments. One of the biggest causes of concern for CEO’s? The accelerated pace of digital transformation and shifting online workspace. With employees becoming more comfortable with remote work in an ever-changing world, talent acquisition teams need to be more agile than ever as employers have begun widening their search radius as different business sectors find new groun

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Remote Human Resources Strategies for 2021 (And Beyond)

TalentCulture

2020 was a year of job losses and significant changes for human resources and hiring teams. While the pandemic will eventually come to an end, many of the changes we’ve […]. The post Remote Human Resources Strategies for 2021 (And Beyond) appeared first on TalentCulture.

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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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HR leaders report soaring amounts of stress

HRExecutive

What’s keeping HR up at night? In a year defined by a pandemic, social and political unrest and a contentious election , well, a lot. A whopping 90% of human resources professionals say their stress has increased in the last year—47% of whom say their stress levels have increased “dramatically,” according to Human Resource Executive ’s annual survey of.

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Upskilling Your People: Getting Started with Skill Data

Degreed

No matter how or why you’re upskilling your people, there’s a reliable way to make learning click: make it relevant. And one of the key ingredients to relevant learning is skill data. Familiarizing yourself with the concepts behind skill data doesn’t have to be overwhelming. Understanding what it is, where it comes from, and how to get it can open up a world of new information to your organization.

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Covid-19 vaccine passports: a workforce planning issue in waiting?

HR Zone

Future Covid-19 vaccine passports and the return to work.

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HR Competencies for 2025 – A Future Standard

Digital HR Tech

Today’s HR professionals are facing a growing skills gap. A recent survey found that 60% of employees believe that their current skill set will become outdated in the next three to five years. This poses a challenge for HR. Not only will their existing skills become obsolete, but they will also need to develop new HR competencies to perform well. Stephane Kasriel, CEO of Upwork and member of the World Economic Forum puts the half-life of skills around five years, highlighting the urgency of cont

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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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Sumser: Don’t miss these speakers at Spring HR Tech

HRExecutive

Next month’s Spring HR Tech is the result of the hard work and vision of Jeanne Achille, who—for those who don’t know—is one of the great behind-the-scenes people of our industry. Some time back, she founded and began organizing the Women in HR Tech summit at the annual fall HR Technology conference. Over the years, she delivered finesse and substance to the content.

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HireVue Discontinues Facial Analysis Screening

SHRM Resources

HireVue, a well-known video interview and assessment vendor, has removed the facial analysis component from its screening assessments as concerns about the transparent and appropriate use of AI in employment decisions grow.

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Employee recognition: Creating a sense of community at work through celebration

HR Zone

Culture How celebration nurtures workplace communities.

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Loyal Employees are Assets – Not Liabilities!

Brigette Hyacinth

Employees are your most valuable resource. Yet many companies ignore and treat their employees poorly. Our system has fallen into a self-reinforcing command loop construct as follows: Increase shareholder value at all costs without regard for the human factor. Sadly, if you do not cure the cancer in the root of the tree, not only with the branches and leaves die; but so will the tree.

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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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The SEC’s new disclosure rules are changing HR forever. Are you ready?

HRExecutive

The past year has shown us all just how critical HR is to the performance of a business. And with new Securities and Exchange Commission data disclosure guidelines going into practice, the role of HR has finally risen to its rightful place—the boardroom. If you haven’t yet heard, for the first time in over 30 years the SEC has modernized its disclosure rules , requiring that public companies disclose far more detail about their human capital metrics than ever before.

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Taking Advantage of a Broader Talent Pool

SHRM Resources

?As many organizations around the country continue to operate in a remote or hybrid way and many indicate that they may do so for the foreseeable future (or even permanently), some are beginning to realize a potential big benefit—an opportunity to recruit and hire employees from a much broader talent pool."The widening of the talent pool is both an opportunity and a challenge, and I think many companies are still figuring out how to navigate the global talent landscape," said John Hill

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Three tips for developing behaviours that drive your company values

HR Zone

Culture 3 tips for developing values-aligned behaviours.

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interviews when you have food allergies, snow days when not everyone can work from home, and more

Ask a Manager

This post, interviews when you have food allergies, snow days when not everyone can work from home, and more , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. Food allergies and etiquette. I recently found out (by way of nearly dying the night before my wedding, no less) that I have a life-threatening allergy to seafood.

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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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What Workday’s new $700M deal means for HR technology

HRExecutive

The COVID-19 pandemic has motivated employers to ratchet up their attention to employee engagement even more intensely, as work-from-home scenarios expand the chasm between employers and their distributed workforces. That challenge has increased demand for tech that enables organizations to better listen to the needs of employees, says global industry analyst Josh Bersin.

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The Best Leaders Are Humble Leaders.

Brigette Hyacinth

The stories are all too common: After years of hard work, many leaders let success get to their head. They gain satisfaction from pushing people around. Little do they know, humility is an incredibly powerful choice. It is a critical success factor. “With pride comes disgrace, but with humility comes wisdom” (Proverbs 11:2). Scientific inquiry into the power and effectiveness of humility has shown that it offers a significant “competitive advantage” to leaders.

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5 Tips To Help Maintain A Healthy Lifestyle

Take It Personel-ly

For many people, the idea of adopting a healthier lifestyle is scary because they focus too much on what they will be giving up. However, you can make important lifestyle changes gradually and without giving up many of the things you enjoy. In fact, you may find that some healthy options are enjoyable and welcome […].

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