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How to Stop Sick Employees from Coming to Work

HRIS Payroll Software

On the surface, it seems obvious that sick employees would want to stay home and would be allowed to do so by their employers. Sick employees are uncomfortable and working will likely prolong their illness. Sick employees are also less productive and contagious, so they will hamper the overall performance of the workplace and potentially make other employees, managers, and customers sick.

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Certified PEO or IRS Certification = One Large Step for the PEO Industry

Tandem HR

PEO Industry. Tandem HR’s Senior Director of Operations, Greg Foss, discussed the new certified PEO (or Certified Professional Employer Organization) status with the IRS on Get Down to Business , a radio show for entrepreneurs and business executives that airs on 560 AM The Answer on Sunday evenings from 6 – 7 pm CT. Greg and host, Shalom Klein, discussed the benefits the new designation has for the PEO industry and PEO clients.

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Dear ReWorker: We Assumed Our Employee Would Be a Stay-at-Home Mom

Cornerstone On Demand

Dear ReWorker, We have just over 50 employees, so we are subject to FMLA. An employee had a baby a couple of months ago and went on maternity leave. We were all 100 percent sure that she would quit to stay home with the baby. Her husband has a good job and her sisters are stay-at-home moms. So, we started working on replacing her. We hired her replacement and she's great!

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HOW TO: Turn Your Employee Engagement Survey Results into Action

HR Bartender

(Editor’s Note: Today’s post is brought to you by Readex Research , which provides expert survey services to help businesses understand their internal and external customers. Their services include employee experience surveys. Enjoy the post!). Let’s say your organization has conducted your employee engagement survey. You’ve used the principles of survey research to design the survey.

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The Engagement Engine: Strategies for Building a High-Performance Culture

Speaker: Radhika Samant and Adri Glover

Many companies strive for a positive culture with happy employees. But what if you could achieve more? High-performing cultures are the McLarens of the business world, leaving Camrys in the dust. They unlock exceptional results by fostering innovation, engagement, and continuous growth. In this webinar, we'll demystify the concept and provide practical steps to kickstart the journey toward a high-performing culture in your organization.

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A Step-by-Step Onboarding Process Checklist

ClearCompany HRM

Bringing someone new into your organization is not a simple process. You need to get them up to optimal productivity as soon as possible, integrate them into the company culture, make sure they’re properly trained in company policy and more.

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Should You Hire An Overqualified Candidate?

Cornerstone On Demand

Overqualified candidates often pose a difficult challenge: experience, knowledge and self-sufficiency can be a big draw, but potential risks of boredom in the workplace and high turnover are enough to put any employer on edge. One out of every four workers with a bachelor's degree is overqualified for their job, according to a recent study , which means HR executives are likely to encounter this issue across a variety of positions and departments.

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Don’t Contact My Boss for a Job Reference – Ask #HR Bartender

HR Bartender

We’ve talked about the job reference before on HR Bartender, but this is a new situation. What do you say if the company you’re interviewing with wants to speak with your last boss and you’d rather they didn’t…. Hi Sharlyn! I am in a pickle and am reaching out to all the resources I have to get some help. Although I quit my last job, my boss and I did not leave on the best of terms, and I would not want her to be a reference for me.

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Coaching Works. Here’s Why.

ATD Human Capital

The coaching industry is booming. In the last 10 years, membership of the International Coach Federation (ICF) has more than tripled. Estimates put the number of professional coach practitioners worldwide at more than 50,000 and growing. According to the ICF’s 2016 Global Coaching Study, the annual revenue from coaching is estimated at $2.35 billion.

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6 Reasons You Might Be Setting a Poor Example for Your Team

The People Equation

Young kids speak the truth, as anyone who’s ever been called out by a preschooler can tell you. I’ll never forget the time my three-year-old son looked at me with his innocent, big brown eyes and said, “Mama, you told me that’s a bad word. How come you just said it?” Nothing shines the light on a failed role model opportunity faster than being called on the carpet by a person who barely reaches your waist.

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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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Beyond Agile HR: Your Company Must Embrace Agile Work

Cornerstone On Demand

In The Inevitable , author and co-founder of Wired magazine Kevin Kelly describes twelve disruptive technological forces. One is “becoming," in which products, services and relationships are perpetually both obsolete and upgraded. Take, for example, the 10-year anniversary of the iPhone—as soon as a new one emerges, it's the hottest thing on the market, and the old version dramatically decreases in value.

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Employee Coaching Isn’t Always Visible – Friday Distraction

HR Bartender

(Editor’s Note: Today’s post is brought to you by our friends at Kronos , a leading provider of workforce management and human capital management cloud solutions. They’ve announced availability of “ Your Last Differentiator: Human Capital ”, authored by Gregg Gordon, vice president of the data science practice group at Kronos. You can download the first chapter here.

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Workplace Muscle: Increase engagement and performance by exercising your strengths

CONCERN: EAP

“It takes far more energy and work to improve from incompetence to mediocrity than it takes to improve from first-rate performance to excellence.” - Peter Drucker Positive psychology has drawn an interesting parallel between levels of life balance satisfaction and the regular application of our personal strengths. According to decades of research collected by Gallup, using our strengths during the day helps us to be more productive and up to six times more engaged in our work.

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Enterprise Incentive and Recognition Design – Part 1? – Consider Your Brand

What is Paul Thinking

Or is it Part 2 since I posted the intro piece last week? Does the intro count at Part 1? I’m going to say no. The parts are the elements – the Intro/Summary aren’t part of the series. So this series really has 7 parts but only 5 of them are numbered. Confused yet? Good. As I indicated in the intro post it is painful for me to watch incentive and recognition programs discussed (poorly) online by self-declared experts in program design.

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Recruit and Retain New Blue-Collar Talent

Blue-collar jobs have a branding problem. One company, GEON, partnered with Paycor to find the solution. Learn how to attract, engage, and retain blue-collar employees, helping them build meaningful careers – and support your company’s goals.

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3 Examples for Measuring HR’s Business Impact [Podcast]

UpstartHR

ROI. Measurement. Data. Analytics. Each of these words has the power to strike fear in the hearts of many HR pros, because let’s face it–most of us didn’t get into this profession because we’re awesome at math, right? :-) Seriously though, we can’t deny the power of data and evidence to prove the value HR can provide. I’ve often said that HR provides plenty of value to the organization in most cases, but HR pros are just really terrible about calculating and

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The Culture Series [Part 1] – Defining Diversity and Inclusion in Today’s Business Climate

HR Bartender

Diversity can have many definitions. Organizations often define it in the context of their culture. Generally speaking, diversity refers to the qualities, experiences, and work behaviors that make individuals unique. This includes age, gender, race, religion, ethnicity, disabilities, income, etc. It can also touch upon federal, state, and local equal employment opportunity laws, but…that’s for another post.

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Competing for Tricky STEM Talent and What Performance Management Has to do With It

Achievers

It seems like nearly every company I’ve worked with is struggling to attract and retain strong technical resources, whether their organization competes in the technology space or not. We can chalk up the demand to the advancement of science and technology’s role in nearly every industry, service, and product out there—combined with a shortage of the necessary STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) talent to support those needs.

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3 Touch Points to Better Engage a Multigenerational Workforce

Entrepreneur

Smart HCM technology can help organizations create compelling work environments that make employees feel valued and treated fairly - regardless of their generation, employment status, or position.

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The Employer’s Guide to Early Cancer Detection

A comprehensive early detection strategy for cancer is no longer a nice-to-have for employers; it’s a must. The reality is 1 in 2 women and 1 in 3 men will be diagnosed with cancer at some point in their lives, and the physical, emotional, and financial impact on both employees and employers is great. To help improve your employees’ health outcomes and reduce cancer-related costs, download The Employer’s Guide to Early Detection.

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5 Traits of a Mindful Leader

WorkHuman

Listen to the latest episode of WorkHuman Radio with Pandit Dasa, embedded at the top of this post. Aspiring to become a mindful leader starts by asking yourself a set of somewhat uncomfortable and confronting questions. What is my motivation for leading? Am I in leadership because I enjoy power, control, and fame? Am I leading to serve or am I leading to be served?

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Planned Coffee Intake – Boost Your Office Productivity

Hppy

Coffee is, for many of us, the first thing we use in the morning to awaken our bodies and minds before going off to work. It comes as a salvation and comfort throughout long and hard days in the office. But many people notice that as time goes on, they need more and more caffeine to get the same effect. It becomes a strange and habit of overstuffing without much pleasure and benefits it used to bring.

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11 Quotes From Investors in Different Decades of Their Lives

Justworks

It’s not often you hear events or panels addressing ageism in the workplace. That’s one reason why Cassidy North-Reist, Events Manager at Justworks, wanted to create a new speaker series called DECADES. Her inspiration stemmed from a conversation she had with a coworker at a previous job. “[My coworker] was a 50-year-old woman, I’m a woman in my 20s.

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Joint Challenges: HR and Legalized Marijuana

TalentCulture

Legalized marijuana may soon become a nationwide reality—possibly within the next year. Even if it doesn’t, more states could join Alaska, California, Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, and Washington, D.C. in legalizing recreational marijuana. So in anticipation, let’s explore what the legalization of marijuana could mean for employers, and specifically, for HR departments.

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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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Is There Still a Need for HR?

TLNT: The Business of HR

HR departments are the last thing fast growing companies pay attention to. In the race to become lean, hypergrowth machines, many executives in the tech industry see HR simply as a nice to have at best, if not a symbol of the corporate culture they want to avoid.

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[Infographic] How To Say No At Work And Why It Matters

Hppy

Achieving the perfect work-life balance is difficult. We all want to be successful in our careers, but we also need to be happy with the amount of time we spend with friends and family. A variety of factors contribute to the challenge of striking the right work-life balance, including: Job demands and responsibilities. Company culture and environment.

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A Workers' Compensation Insurance Primer

Justworks

Every day of our lives, we face risks. To protect against these risks, we take preventative measures such as checking the weather forecast, maintaining our cars, or installing smoke alarms. Many people also purchase insurance policies to prevent risk. Injury or death at work is also a risk. Beginning in 1911, states adopted workers' compensation laws, and by 1963 all 50 states had some form of workers' compensation law in place.

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How Machine Learning is Changing Recruiting

TalentCulture

Companies approach recruiting in different ways. Facebook’s method , for example, involves acquisitions for human capital and a six-week onboarding boot camp. Of course, that’s not the norm: On average, a recent study found it takes 42 days—and a cost-per-hire of $4,129—to fill an open position. That adds up, especially since Bloomberg recently reported that approximately 10,000 members of the baby boomer generation reach retirement age every day.

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Bridging the Gap: The Intersection of DEI Initiatives and Employee Benefits

Speaker: Jaye Johnson, CBP

Unlock the secrets to transforming your organization’s employee benefits into a strategic tool for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI). During this informative session, we will discuss common pitfalls in traditional benefits and then delve into the essence of DEI in employee-centric benefit offerings. This involves not only defining DEI in the workplace but also understanding the pivotal role that employee benefits play in fostering a diverse and inclusive environment.

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6 Transformative Benefits of Respect in the Workplace

Bonusly

Do you feel respected at work? Greeting people on the street, in the store, at the gym, or even in the workplace can seem like such a chore for some people. But what many forget is that saying “good morning” isn’t just being polite. By saying “good morning,” one person is showing respect for another person, not just by greeting them, but by simply acknowledging that they exist.

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8 Small But Powerful Ways To Recognize Employees

Hppy

If you’ve ever felt underappreciated at work (and pretty much all of us have), then you know how important recognition is in the workplace. According to Gallup , only one in three workers had received praise or recognition in the past week, a factor that directly impacts turnover rate and employee engagement. Employees who don’t feel recognized are twice as likely to say they’ll quit within the next year.

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3 Misconceptions That Are Killing Your Recruiting Efforts

Entrepreneur

Doggie daycare and other perks are fun, but they aren't the last word in recruitment -- people are.