Sat.Sep 26, 2020 - Fri.Oct 02, 2020

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Paid Sick Leave Laws by State: The Chart, Map, & Accrual Info You Need

Patriot Software

Typically, employers get to choose whether they want to offer types of paid time off, like sick leave, to employees. But depending on your business location, you might not have a choice. Little by little, paid sick leave laws by state are on the rise. If your employees work in a state with mandatory sick […] READ MORE.

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update: our library staff have all been reassigned to do childcare for county workers

Ask a Manager

Remember the letter from the library worker whose county was forcibly assigning library workers to provide childcare for county employees? Here’s the update. Before I get into anything else, I’ll note that due to information I was provided on the legality of initiatives like the one at my library within my particular state, I didn’t pursue legal action or contact state agencies.

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5 Major Things Recruiters Need To Know About Diversity Hiring

Recruit CRM

Before beginning to dive in at the bottom of diversity hiring , recruiters need to understand more about the superficial items related to it. You often are at crossroads when you ask yourself what diversity actually means. Few people define diversity as differences among people. However, you need to understand that diversity is really an exclusive term which defines cultural differences often keeping race and ethnicity as major filters.

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4 Strategies to Embed Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Your Company

Eightfold

I’ve been taking a look at our data regarding diversity. What I’m seeing demands action. At Eightfold.ai, we’re a data company. We have anonymized information for more than 1 billion career profiles worldwide, including more than 90 million careers in the U.S. It’s a substantial sample of the global workforce, and our AI adds additional context to each profile, including the skills each person has and the seniority level of each job that they’ve held.

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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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Why Cohort Analysis is Key to Effective D&I Programs

Visier

Often, the first instinct of a D&I lead is to bring in more bias training or special programs focused on the groups that may be affected. These generic activities tick the box to show action and investment, but increasing amounts of research show these don’t actually bring any meaningful change. In fact, sometimes what looks like success isn’t success at all.

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How to Use 360-Degree Feedback to Improve Your Employee Experience

DecisionWise

At DecisionWise, we spend a lot of our time helping organizations understand their employee experience, with the end-goal of improving an organization’s levels of employee engagement. How Do We Measure the Employee Experience? Most often, we start by studying how things are working inside an organization from the employees’ perspective. Some of the tools we use include: Anchor surveys Pulse surveys Employee check-ins Focus groups Other forms of people data .

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The 10 Must-Read Articles for Recruiters This Week

Linkedin Talent Blog

“One in four women are considering downshifting their careers or leaving the workforce due to Covid-19.” That’s according to the new Women in the Workplace report by McKinsey & Company and LeanIn.org, which goes on to say that “without bold steps, we could erase all the progress we’ve made toward gender diversity in the six years of this study.” In addition to looking at how the pandemic has affected women at work, the report offers steps companies can take to build a more equal workplace an

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The Top 3 Benefits of Pulse Surveys

Achievers

Gathering and acting on employee feedback is crucial if you want to improve engagement, which drives greater business outcomes related to the employee experience , such as productivity and retention. Our recent survey shows that most employers are only measuring engagement once a year, if that, and many employees want more frequent surveys. This is where pulse surveys come into the picture.

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Your Guide For Employee Journey Mapping In 2020

Human Resources Today Submitted Articles

Learn how to use employee journey mapping to create the best possible employee experience at your organization.

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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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office won’t call me “lord,” everyone has ideas but won’t do the work, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. Everyone has ideas, but no one wants to do the work. I belong to an all-volunteer organization that does a lot of good in our community. However, most of the work is done by a small core group of volunteers. There are several others who serve on the board or committees who “contribute” primarily by generating lots of ideas for projects or approaches, but never step up to implement their ideas.

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U.S. Adds 661,000 Jobs; Unemployment Rate Drops

SHRM Resources

U.S. payrolls increased by 661,000 in September, less than what was expected, as the pace of rehiring has slowed and more layoffs are expected. The unemployment rate fell to 7.9 percent from 8.4 percent in August, according to the latest report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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Employee Burnout: How Leaders Can Help Right Now

TalentCulture

I want you to look around at your employees — in person where possible, and on that Zoom call. Then, I want you to think about how they’re doing. 9 […]. The post Employee Burnout: How Leaders Can Help Right Now appeared first on TalentCulture.

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ICE and DHS Employer COVID Guidance You Need to Know

Cisive

The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA) requires employers in the United States to complete the ‘Form I-9, Employment Eligibility Verification’ for all newly-hired employees to verify their identity and their employment authorization to work in the country. Both employers and employees must complete the form. On March 19, 2020, due to precautions implemented by employers and employees associated with COVID-19, the DHS announced it would exercise prosecutorial discretion to defer th

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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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10 Remote Job Interview Questions You’ve Got to Be Ready to Answer

The Muse

Interviewers are looking for particular skills in candidates who’ll be working remotely. Here’s what they’ll probably ask you—with tips and example answers.

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I saw a coworker’s husband naked on Zoom – should I say anything?

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: So … the other day we had a full day Zoom meeting/training (~12 people from our company, including the boss and the trainer from outside the company). During the lunch break, the Zoom was still going on, but we were encouraged to go eat, stretch, etc. I turned off my camera and mic, but stayed on my computer to do some unrelated tasks.

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Meet the HR Tech keynote speakers: Stacia Garr

HRExecutive

At this month’s free, virtual HR Tech Conference , RedThread Research co-founder and principal analyst Stacia Garr will bring a data-focused perspective to the conversation about the evolving HR technology marketplace. Advertisement. Specifically, Garr will explore the need for organizational purpose in technology programs, a keynote she will deliver Oct. 28.

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8 Diversity Recruiting Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

SHRM Resources

Employers are reevaluating workplace diversity at their organizations, starting with being more thoughtful about recruiting from a broader range of talent.

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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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Employee experience 2020: a shift from ping-pong tables to respect

HR Zone

Employees Employee experience in 2020.

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5 Tips for Maintaining Remote Worker Posting Compliance

TalentCulture

The pivot toward remote work happened suddenly for many. A BLS survey (June 2020) found 31 percent of workers were teleworking or working from home. Stanford University research found that […]. The post 5 Tips for Maintaining Remote Worker Posting Compliance appeared first on TalentCulture.

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Technology and the modern workplace: Cultivating D&I

HRExecutive

Creating a diverse and inclusive workplace is important for a number of reasons, not the least of which is profitability. According to a recent McKinsey study , businesses with gender-diverse workspaces were 21% more likely to attain above-average profit and those that were culturally and ethnically diverse were 33% more likely to outperform competitors.

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Are Noncompetes Enforceable During the COVID-19 Pandemic?

SHRM Resources

As the coronavirus crisis continues and employers make difficult decisions about laying off or furloughing workers, they may want to review their noncompete agreements and decide if it still makes business sense to enforce them.

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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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Want to Work in Tech? Get to Know These 21 Essential Terms

The Muse

There are plenty of ways to work in tech without knowing how to code—but you still need to know the lingo. Here’s a list to get you started.

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4 Proven Ways to Improve Recruiting and Remote Hiring

TalentCulture

To say COVID-19 has changed the recruiting and remote hiring would be an understatement. For a start, it’s likely you’re relying more heavily on the expertise of the rest of […]. The post 4 Proven Ways to Improve Recruiting and Remote Hiring appeared first on TalentCulture.

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Averbook: 10 ways HR can reimagine itself for 2021

HRExecutive

This year has poured gas on the digital revolution. Dramatic world shifts, the prioritized prevalence of the digital workplace and distributed work, and a need to be physically distant with deeper connections than ever to work and each other dramatically accelerated digitization in our personal and professional lives. It’s the parallel revolution that makes 2020 so significant: The human revolution overlaid these world shifts, making work suddenly, if not refreshingly, more human than ever.

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The Top 12 Career Site Self-Service Tools

Ongig

Forty-two percent of the Fortune 500 use a career site self-service tool for a reason. It lets them change their career pages on the fly. That lets you solve just about any recruiting-related problem. Need a new Interns page: Bam! Need a new diversity page: Bam! Need to leverage the newest AI search technology from Google: Triple Bam! Here are 12 top career site self-service tools: Ongig’s Career Site Builder.

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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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Managing Candidate Expectations in a Pandemic World

Precheck

Managing Candidate Expectations in a Pandemic World Sep. 29, 2020. Antique Nguyen Marketing Specialist. The growth of technology has given consumers more choice than ever before. Providers of goods and services are expected to go beyond the bare minimum, offering an overall experience that produces real value for customers. The COVID-19 pandemic has further raised consumer standards.

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Recruitment: three steps towards data-driven executive hiring

HR Zone

Acquisition Three steps towards data-driven hiring.

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I’m about to Get Fired. How Do I Prepare?

Evil HR Lady

Currently, I am working as a full-time engineer, and my boss is giving me a hard time. The problem is that my boss may fire me soon like in 2 or 3 weeks, so I want to get prepared for this early sudden termination. Do I have to collect some evidence like “my boss gave me hard-time during work,” to prepare for any sudden termination? The previous ex-employee who get fired a year ago said he should have signed on some documents about “no-suing” etc.